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DR GRAEME COULSON



Contact Details

Organization: Zoology
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.zoology.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/staff/index.php?31,4
Work: 44857/44339
Fax: 8344 7909
Room: 249/203
Level: 02
Building: Zoology Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Kangaroo behaviour and ecology Kangaroo, behaviour, management, ecology Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma in Education University of Tasmania
Master of Environmental Science University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Unspecified Australasian Wildlife Management Society Secretary 01-Jan-1993 01-Jan-1994
Unspecified Kangaroo Technical Advisory Committee Member 01-Jan-1992
Unspecified Coranderrk Management Group Member 01-Jan-1993 01-Jan-1995
Unspecified Victorian Striped Legless Lizard Working Group Member 01-Jan-1995
Unspecified Research Advisory Group, Grassy Ecosystem Reference Group Chair 01-Jan-1996
Unspecified Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby Recovery Team Member 01-Jan-1995

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Interactions between native forest timber harvesting, wildfire and swamp wallabies, Wallabia bicolor Chief Investigator ANZ EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEE COMPANY LTD Postgraduate Student Research Grants (HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE RESEARCH FUND) 05/11/2004
DISTRIBUTION,BEHAVIOUR AND RELATEDNESS OF MYOTIS MACROPUS POPULATIONS IN SOUTHEASTERN ASUTRALIA Principal Supervisor HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE RESEARCH FUND Postgraduate Student Research Grants 01/01/2005
Conservation of Australia's fishing bat, the large-footed myotis, Myotis macropus Principal Supervisor THE NORMAN WETTENHALL FOUNDATION Research Project Grants 17/02/2005
Human-induced changes in the genetic structure of amphibian populations Chief Investigator MUSEUM VIC,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
IMPACT OF TIMBER HARVESTING ON SWAMP WALLABIES - ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Chief Investigator ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 01/01/2006
Population Demography of Australian Fur Seals Chief Investigator ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 01/01/2006
Population genetic structure and habitat specialisation in amphibians Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
THE EFFECT OF ECTOPARASITES ON THE ROOST-STUFFING BEHAVIOUR OF INSECTIVOROUS BATS Chief Investigator ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 18/10/2006
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF THE GROWLING GRASS FROG LITORIA RANIFORMIS Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 18/10/2006
FERTILITY CONTROL OF FREE-RANGING EASTERN GREY KANGAROOS Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 18/10/2006
POPULATION DEMOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIAN FUR SEALS Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 18/10/2006
Fertility control of free ranging eastern grey kangaroos Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 27/05/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
DETAILED EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF FLUOROSIS IN EASTERN GREY KANGAROOS AT PORTLAND ALUMINIUM Chief Investigator ALCOA WORLD ALUMINA AUST,
ALCOA PORTLAND ALUMINIUM
23/07/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Boys will be boys: social affinity among males drives social segregation in western grey kangaroos
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 277
    Page numbers: 37-44
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Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Roo town slow down: a community-based kangaroo management plan for Anglesea, Victoria
    Year: 2008
    Book: Too close for comfort: contentious issues in human-wildlife encounters
    Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of NSW
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  • Western Grey Kangaroo Macropus fuliginosus
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Mammals of Australia
    Publisher: Reed New Holland(Chatswood, NSW)
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Journal Articles

  • Assessing the suitability of wetlands for the reintroduction of the Growling Grass Frog Litoria raniformis
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Zoologist
    Volume: 34
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 426-437
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  • Behavioural ecology of red and grey kangaroos: Caughley's insights into individuals, associations and dispersion
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Wildlife Research
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 57-69
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  • Diets of native and introduced mammalian herbivores in shrub-encroached grassy woodland, south-eastern Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Wildlife Research
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 684-694
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  • Evaluation of an exclusion plot design for determining the impacts of native and exotic herbivores on forest understoreys
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Mammalogy
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 83-87
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  • Long-term efficacy of levonorgestrel implants for fertility control of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Wildlife Research
    Volume: 35
    Page numbers: 520-524
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  • Sixteen years of Eastern Barred Bandicoot Perameles gunnii reintroductions in Victoria: a review
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Pacific Conservation Biology
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 34-53
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Exploding kangaroos: assessing problems and setting targets
    Year: 2007
    Book: Pest or Guest
    Publisher: Australian Academic Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • Interactions between timber harvesting and swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor): Space use, density and browsing impact
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Forest Ecology and Management
    Volume: 253
    Page numbers: 128-137
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  • Long-term pair-bonds without mating fidelity in a mammal
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Behaviour
    Volume: 144
    Page numbers: 1419-1445
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  • Praying for rain: behavioural and demographic responses of Western Grey Kangaroos to sever drought
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria
    Volume: 118
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 323-332
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  • Sexual segregation in western grey kangaroos: testing alternative evolutionary hypotheses
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 273
    Page numbers: 220-228
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  • The Viggers & Hearn conundrum: a kangaroo home range study with no implications for land management
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Applied Ecology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 1080-1085
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Wireless sensor module for habitat monitoring
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 2007 Intelligent Sensors Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 2007 Intelligent Sensors Sensor Networks and Information Processing Conference (ISSNIP)
    Page numbers: 699-702
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Evolution of sexual segregation in mammalian herbivores: kangaroos as marsupial models
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 217-224
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  • Fluorosis as a probable cause of chronic lameness in free ranging eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 477-486
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  • Foraging behaviour and dispersion of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) in an ideal free framework
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 268
    Page numbers: 261-269
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  • Marsupials as models for research
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 137-138
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Wireless sensor nodes for habitat monitoring
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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  • Wireless sensor nodes for monitoring bats
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (ACM REALWSN '06)
    Conference Publication: ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (ACM REALWSN '06)
    Page numbers: 37-41
    Publisher: The Association for Computing Machinery(New York)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Sexual segregation in Australian marsupials
    Year: 2005
    Book: Sexual segregation in vertebrates
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • A soft-walled double-layered trap for capture of swamp wallabies Wallabia bicolor
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Mammalogy
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 235-238
    Publisher: The Australian Mammal Society
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  • Day roost selection by female little forest bats (Vespadelus vulturnus) within remnant woodland on Phillip Island, Victoria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Wildlife Research
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 183-191
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Foraging behaviour and dispersion of eastern grey kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) in an ideal free framework
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 1-9
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Synchrony and timing of breeding influences sexual segregation in western grey and red kangaroos (Macropus fuliginosus & M. rufus)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 267
    Page numbers: 419-429
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Endoparasites of an insular subspecies of the western grey kangaroo, Macropus fuliginosus
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 623-633
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Faecal Escherichia coli and Chlamydophila psittaci in the Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae: host sex and age effects
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Acta Ornithologica
    Volume: 39
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 21-30
    Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk, Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii
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  • Lack of evidence for co-speciation in a parasitic nematode of grey kangaroos
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Helminthology
    Volume: 78
    Page numbers: 207-213
    Publisher: CABI Publishing(Wallingford)
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  • Small-scale patch selection and consumer-resource dynamics of Eastern grey kangaroos
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Mammalogy
    Volume: 85
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1053-1059
    Publisher: American Society of Mammalogists
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A modified draw-string trap for capture of kangaroos at fences
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Mammalogy
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 177-182
    Publisher: The Australian Mammal Society
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  • Determining kangaroo age from lens protein content
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian Journal of Zoology
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 485-494
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • A population study of eastern grey kangaroos Macropus giganteus at Tower Hill State Game Reserve, South-western Victoria
    Year: 2002
    Journal: The Victorian Naturalist
    Volume: 119
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 252-258
    Publisher: Field Naturalists Club of Vicotria
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  • Density dependence in foraging habitat preference of eastern grey kangaroos
    Year: 2002
    Journal: OIKOS
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 393-402
    Publisher: Blackwell Munksgaard(Copenhagen)
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  • Fertility control in the eastern grey kangaroo using levonorgestrel implants
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Wildlife Management
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 470-477
    Publisher: Wildlife Society(Bethesda)
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  • Fertility control of eastern grey kangaroos: do levonorgestrel implants affect behavior?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Wildlife Management
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 59-66
    Publisher: Wildlife Society(Bethesda)
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  • Long-term fertility control in the kangaroo and the wallaby using levonorgestrel implants
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Reproduction
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 71-80
    Publisher: Society of Reproduction and Fertility(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A natural grey kangaroo hybrid?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Zoologist
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 599-602
    Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of NSW
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