Olson, Ashley R. (Dr) - Research

Publications

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• Find-an-Expert

Supervised projects

PhD projects

• Santosh Bhattarai (co-supervised with Prof. Wendy Wright), thesis entitled “The Herpetofauna of Nepal’s Chitwan-Annapurna Landscape: interactions between elevation, biodiversity and vulnerability to climate change”
• Adrienne Lavinia (co-supervised with Dr. Sarah Preston), thesis entitled “Understanding the movement and pathogen transfer of wildlife that are injured and released by wildlife carers”
• Preston Pennington (external student, co-supervised with Dr. Anthony Dell and Prof. Neo Martinez) thesis entitled “Food web assembly and the role of novel species”

Honours projects

• Jeremy Werner, project running title “Determinants of successful maze navigation by Columbian Ground Squirrels, Urocitellus columbianus”
• Francis Licciardi, project running title “The influence of movement and habitat selection on the microbiome of Cape Barren Geese, Cereopsis novaehollandiae”
• Tylah Meunier (completed 2025), thesis entitled “Habitat occupancy by Eastern Mallee Dragons, Ctenophorus spinodomus, near the boundary of a recent wildfire in semi-arid New South Wales, Australia”
• Tomas Mabin (completed 2024), thesis entitled “Post-release Settlement and Habitat Selection by Eastern Bristlebirds following Translocation to Wilson’s Promontory National Park”
• Jacinta Richardson (completed 2023), thesis entitled “Balks and Crosses: Small mammal and reptile responses to a fire edge in Triodia-Mallee, New South Wales”
• Kathleen Helmuth (completed 2023), thesis entitled “The influence of road infrastructure on mammalian predator and prey activity in heathland at Wilson’s Promontory National Park”