ScattsAbout

In addition to general consultancy work, Scats About continues to work in collaboration with various research agencies.

Previous and current collaborations include the following projects.

• Diets of dingoes on Fraser Island (Qld Parks and Wildlife Service)

• Diets of barn owls in Dakalanta Wildlife Sanctuary on the Eyre Peninsula (Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Macquarie University)

• Diets of water rats on a Kimberley offshore island (WA Department of Environment and Conservation)

• Dietary choices of feral predators within Brisbane urban areas (University of Queensland)

• Dietary choice and overlap of dingoes and foxes in arid Australia (University of Sydney)

• Detecting the presence of the Thylacine in historical samples, Isle of the Lost Tigers (Tasmanian Museum, MonsterQuest Productions)

• Diets of wild dogs in Alpine National Park areas (Australian Wild Dog and Hydatid Research Program, New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service)



• Dietary choices of dingoes in relation to prey availability in western Queensland (Australian Plague Locust Commission, Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service)



• Dietary choices of raptors in relation to prey availability in western Queensland (Australian Plague Locust Commission, Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service)



• Diets of barn owls in the absence of plaguing rodents in western Queensland (Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines)



• Management of wild dogs on the urban fringes of Townsville (Environmental Resources Management Australia)

Publications using results from Scats About analysis include:
Robinson N.M., Blanchard, W., MacGregor C., Brewster, G., Dexter N. and Lindenmayer D.B. (2020) Finding food in a novel environment: The diet of a reintroduced endangered meso-predator to mainland Australia, with notes on foraging behaviour. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0243937. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243937.

Norton M.A., Prentice A., Dingle J., French K. and Claridge A.W. (2015) Population characteristics and management of the long-nosed potoroo (Potorous tridactylus) in high-quality habitat in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Australian Mammalogy 37(1):67-74

​Spencer E., Crowther M. and Dickman C. (2014) Diet and prey selectivity of three species of sympatric mammalian predators in central Australia. Journal of Mammalogy 95(6):1278–1288

Radford, I. (2012) Threatened mammals become more predatory after small-scale prescribed fires in a high-rainfall rocky savanna. Austral Ecology 37:926–935.

Cruz J., Sutherland D., Martin M. and Leung L. (2012) Are smaller subspecies of common brushtail possums more omnivorous than larger ones? Austral Ecology 37:893–902.

Allen L., Goullet M. and Palmer R. (2011) The diet of the dingo (Canis lupus dingo and hybrids)in north-eastern Australia: a supplement to the paper of Brook and Kutt The Rangeland Journal, 2012, 34, 211–217.

Priday, S. (2014) Flora and Fauna Survey of Glider Forest and Parkinson Reserve, Brisbane. PSP Ecology report for Brisbane City Council.

Davis NE, Forsyth DM, Triggs B, Pascoe C, Benshemesh J, Robley A, et al. (2015) Interspecific and Geographic Variation in the Diets of Sympatric Carnivores: Dingoes/Wild Dogs and Red Foxes in South-Eastern Australia. PLoS ONE 10(3):e0120975. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120975


Representative
Publications

Story  G. (2020) Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Jedbinbilla Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) Safe Haven Mammal Management Plan. Unpublished report for ACT Parks and Conservation Service.

Story  G. (2020) Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary Koala Reintroduction Background Paper. Unpublished report for ACT Parks and Conservation Service.

Augustyen J., Rich M., Story G. and Nolan N. (2020) Canids potentially threaten bilbies at Astrebla Downs
National Park. Australian Mammalogy https://doi.org/10.1071/AM20034.

Linley G.D., Rypalski A., Story G. and Ritchie E.G. (2020) Run rabbit run: spotted-tailed quoll diet reveals invasive prey is top of the menu. Australian Mammalogy https://doi.org/10.1071/AM19069.

Story G. (2019) Fencing for Conservation: Management of Fenced Wallaby Populations in Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve. Unpublished report for ACT Parks and Conservation Service.

Story G., Driscoll, D. and Banks S. (2014) What can camera traps tell us about the diurnal activity of the nocturnal bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus)? In Camera Trapping Wildlife Management and Research. Eds Meek, Fleming, Ballard, Claridge, Banks, Sanderson and Swann. CSIRO Publishing.

Newsome, T.M., Ballard, G., Fleming, P.J.S., ven de Ven, R., Story, G.L. and Dickman, C.R. (2014) Human-reource subsidies alter the dietary preferences of a mammalian top-predator. Oecologica 175(1):139-150.

Story, G., Driscoll, D. Dennis, T. and Banks, S. (2013) Rehabilitated bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus): dispersal, activity patterns and survivorship, a pilot project. Australian Wildlife Management Society Annual Conference 2013, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Fill, J. M., Freeman, A.B., Story, G. and Curran, T. J. (2012) Predation of the cryptic rainforest rodent (Pogonomys sp.) by a carpet python (Morelia spilota). Australian Mammalogy 35(2): 224-226.



Letnic, M., Story, P., Story, G., Field J., Brown, O. and Dickman, C. R. (2011) Resource pulses, switching trophic control, and the dynamics of desert small-mammal assemblages in arid Australia: Tests of a conceptual model. Journal of Mammalogy 92(6):1210-1222.

Cupples, J. B., Crowther, M. S., Story, G. and Letnic, M. (2011) Dietary overlap and prey selectivity among sympatric carnivores: Could dingoes suppress foxes through competition for prey? Journal of Mammalogy 92(3): 590-600.

Story, G. and Lloyd, S. (2010) The diet of wild dogs and foxes within a Brisbane urban environment. Unpublished report to Brisbane City Council.

Story, G. (2008) Increasing the use of scat and hair analysis in environmental studies. Australian Institute of Biology Newsletter 8(1): 20-23.

Jenkins, D. J., Murray, A. J., Claridge, A. W., Story, G. L., Bradshaw, H. and Craig, P. S. (2005). The Contribution of Spotted-tailed quolls (Dasyurus maculatus) to the transmission of Echinococcus granulosus in the Byadbo Wilderness Area, Kosciuszko National Park, Australia. Wildlife Research 32: 1-5.

Story, G., Berman, D., Palmer, R. and Scanlan, J. (2004). The impact of Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease on wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) populations in Queensland. Wildlife Research 31: 183-193.

Palmer, R., Cunningham, G., Pidcock, S. and Berman, D. (1998). The diet of the red fox pre and post RCD: What is on the menu next? Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference, University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland.

Palmer, R. and Cunningham, G. (1997). A Successful Breeding by Wedge-Tailed Eagles (Aqulia audax) in the Channel Country of Far Western Queensland: In the Absence of an Abundant Mammalian Prey Source. Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales.

Cunningham, G., Palmer, R., and Pidcock, S. (1998). The diet of the red fox pre and post-RCD. Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference, University of Queensland, Gatton, Queensland.

Memberships and Associations

Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat Advisory Group

Ecological Society of Australia

CSIRO Scientists in Schools Program

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Regional Advisory Committee Far South Coast Region

Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Australian Wildlife Management Society

Australian Institute of Biology

Wombat Protection Society

Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia

Native Animal Rescue Group