Australian Society Conference 17-18 November 2020: Program – Day 1

9:00 AM # Opening 1. Population ecology Sp=speed talk; Student award nominees: Bolliger**, Lyne* 9:15 AM 1 sp Rachel Bergeron* Eastern grey kangaroo population dynamics Double-observer distance sampling improves the accuracy of density estimates for the southern 9:22 AM 2 Jemma Cripps greater glider 9:33 AM 3 sp Ross Goldingay Population monitoring of the yellow-bellied glider in subtropical Australia Paternal reproductive potential modulates maternal effects on offspring sex but not maternal 9:40 AM 4 Luca Montana** allocation in kangaroos The decline and likely loss of a population of the northern long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus 9:51 AM 5 sp David Milledge tridactylus in Tyagarah Nature Reserve on the NSW far north coast The last Conilurus: insights into the drastic decline and future of the brush-tailed rabbit-rat 9:58 AM 6 Cara Penton (Conilurus pencillatus) Long-term monitoring of squirrel gliders (Petaurus norfolcensis) in south-east Queensland: 10:09 AM 7 Anita Marks investigating causes of decline 10:20 AM 8 Emily Scicluna** Fat-tailed dunnarts of the Victorian grasslands: not so common after-all? The population ecology and behaviour of eastern barred bandicoots following conservation 10:31 AM 9 Tahlia Townsend translocations 10:42 AM 10 sp Brianna Martin A spatio-temporal population model for Diprotodon 10:49 AM Break 2. Morphology 11:20 AM 11 Kaylah Del Simone How limb morphology influences manoeuvrability and speed in Isoodon macrourus 11:31 AM 12 Alistair Evans A universal power law for the growth and form of teeth, claws, hooves, horns and antlers 11:42 AM 13 Douglass Rovinsky Did the violate the costs of carnivory? No trade-off between biting and sprinting performance in a wild population of northern 11:53 AM 14 Gabriella Sparkes (Dasyurus hallucatus) Using 3D geometric morphometrics to ecomorphologically characterize a recent speciation event 12:04 PM 15 Pietro Viacava** within the genus Antechinus 12:15 PM 16 sp Vera Weisbecker Homogeneous shape of platypus skulls across the species’ southern distribution 12:22 PM 17 sp Natalie Warburton Extreme bilateral polydactyly in a wild-caught Western Grey Kangaroo, Macropus fuliginosus 12:29 PM Lunch

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Lunch 3. Research for the pun of it 1:30 PM 18 James Rule** Sealing the deal: Australasian fossils ‘flip’ the evolutionary history of the southern true seals 1:41 PM 19 Danielle Eastick** What happens under the cover of darkness: multiple paternity in an Australian Catch me if you can: using traps and predator scat to determine recognition of predators by 1:52 PM 20 Megan Edwards Australian 2:03 PM 21 Tahneal Hawke Damming insights: the impacts of river regulation on platypus populations 2:14 PM 22 Rebecca Wheatley The slip: locomotor accidents affect how use their physical landscape Scats all you got? Developing faecal monitoring techniques to evaluate translocation success of 2:25 PM 23 Saul Cowen ‘trap-shy’ mammal species 2:36 PM 24 sp Erin Thomas Impact of fire and habitat composition on the daily roo-tine of macropods The ‘coot of the problem: developing an effective method of radio-tracking Shark Bay bandicoots 2:43 PM 25 sp Kelly Rayner Perameles bougainville Too hot for the devil? Did climate change cause the mid-Holocene extinction of the 2:50 PM 26 Shane Morris** (Sacrophilus harrisii) from mainland Australia? 3:01 PM 27 sp Ehlana Davidson Life is a highway: predicting road deaths for urban ringtail possums (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) 3:08 PM Break 4. Physiology The physiological and behavioural adaptations in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in response to 3:45 PM 28 sp Dalene Adam* climate change 3:52 PM 29 Kate Dutton-Regester** Plasma progesterone during gestation of the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) 4:03 PM 30 Kerry Fanson Untangling the web of interactions between stress, glucocorticoids, and reproduction 4:14 PM 31 sp James Turner Arboreal folivores in the heat

Infra-red imagining of wild echidnas reveals potential of evaporative and thermal windows to 4:21 PM 32 Christine Cooper facilitate heat loss 4:32 PM 33 Philip Withers Insensible water loss of alpine antechinuses: arid-mesic differences? 4:43 PM Close

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Australian Mammal Society Conference 17-18 November 2020: Program – Day 2

5. Fire Sp=speed talk; Student award nominees: Bolliger**, Lyne* 9:00 AM 34 sp Dan Lunney The 2019-2020 bushfires: state-wide picture of koala rescue and rehabilitation in NSW 9:07 AM 35 sp Gary Fry Rapid mobilisation of existing networks in response to habitat loss after wildfire 9:14 AM 36 Amy Smith Drivers of ground-dwelling mammal diversity in a fire-prone landscape 9:25 AM 37 sp Pip Taylor The effect of time since fire, habitat structure and moonlight on small mammal behaviour The influence of fire extent, configuration and diversity on small mammal populations in heathland 9:32 AM 38 sp Lily Wheeler ecosystems

6. Bilbies & wombats 9:39 AM 39 Cassandra Arkinstall Factors influencing home range size of the greater bilby populations in fenced reserves 9:50 AM 40 sp Kate Bojarojc* Wombats as ecosystem engineers: summer v winter The private life of the greater bilby: exploring social connections between bilbies released into a 9:57 AM 41 Kate Cornelsen semi-wild sanctuary 10:08 AM 42 Raphael Eisenhofer Wombat microbes: from pouches to poo 10:19 AM Break 7. Genes Population structure and gene flow between culvert roosts of a specialist trawling in a 11:00 AM 43 Vanessa Gorecki subtropical city 11:11 PM 44 sp Helen Waudby Population connectivity of southern Ningaui (Ningaui yvonneae) in the Scotia Mallee region, NSW 11:18 AM 45 sp Linda Neaves Using DNA from scats to explore trophic interactions 11:25 AM 46 Sally Potter The role of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation of rock-wallabies Understanding patterns of phenotypic and genetic divergence in island mammals to improve 11:36 AM 47 sp Kate Rick conservation outcomes A new diagnostic tool for non-invasive genetic monitoring of the ghost bat, gigas: 11:43 AM 48 sp Kym Ottewell custom-designed SNP arrays using the Agena MassArray platform 11:50 AM 49 Kenny Travouillon Why is the quenda (Isoodon fusciventer) paraphyletic? 12:01 PM Lunch

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8. Mammal biology & Lunch biodiversity 1:00 PM 50 sp Lorna Hernandez-Santin Spatial ecology of the northern in the 1:07 PM 51 Alex Jiang The development of an improved scat survey method for koalas Phascolarctos cinereus 1:18 PM 52 Matthew Rees Invasive mesopredator release 1:29 PM 53 sp Sue Hand Extinct burrowing (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) signal loss of biodiversity in New Zealand 1:36 PM 54 sp Tahlia Pollock* Torn limb from limb: Prey processing in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) Characterising injuries and pathology of common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) mortalities in the 1:43 PM 55 Cath Kemper south Australian sardine fishery 1:54 PM 56 Elliot Webb Do artificial water stations put native wildlife at risk of predation and disease transmission? 2:05 PM 57 sp William Parker Strontium concentration in marsupial teeth – insights into life history 2:12 PM 58 sp Bryony Palmer** Investigations into the role of Australian omnivorous marsupials as seed dispersers Abundance and species richness of small mammals and reptiles across three regional ecosystems in 2:23 PM 59 sp Miranda Rew-Duffy central Queensland An interpretation of the abundance of the small mammals of horseshoe cave at the end Pleistocene 2:30 PM 60 Jake Newman-Martin and Holocene 2:41 PM Break 3:00 PM Student awards

3:15 PM AMS AGM 6:00 PM Close

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