Publications

2024

Mason, RT., Rendall, AR., Sinclair, R., Ritchie, EG. (submitted). Assessing target and non-target species interactions with buried non-toxic meat baits across fire mosaics. Wildlife Research

Stephenson, D., Weston, MA., Rendall, AR. (submitted). Is the long-nosed potoroo a facultative arboreal species? Austral Ecology

Galletta, L., Rendall, AR., Thorpe, M., Hides, B., Lefoe, M., Holmes, B., Ritchie, EG. (submitted). Fox baiting does not alter fox abundance in northwest Victoria, Australia. Wildlife Research

Rendall, AR., Plotz, R.D., Yokochi, K., Krauss, J., Pengelly, A., Di Stefano, S.A., Swindell, S., Ranawana, K., Vidanapathirana, D.R., Weston, M.A. (submitted). Lifting the veil of darkness: thermal technology facilitates collection of flight-initiation distances by night. Method in Ecology and Evolution

Williamson, VG., Rendall, AR., Wu, LH., Hirst, MJ. (under review). Bringing Australia’s vulnerable Baw-Baw Berry, Wittsteinia vacciniacea, into cultivation. Sibbalidia

Bruce, T., Amir, Z., Alting, B., Amos, M., Augusteyn, J., Ballard, G., Behrendorff, L., Bell, J., Bell, K., Bengsen, AJ., Bennett, A., Benshemesh, JS., Boascarino-Gaetano, R., Bourke, LA., Brewster, R., Brook, BW., Broughton, C., Buettel, JC., Cater, A., Chiu-Werner, A., Comer, S., Comte, S., Connolly, RM., Cowan, MA., Cross, SL., Cunningham, CX., Dalziell, AH., Davies, H., Davis, J., Dawson, SJ., Di Stefano, J., Dillion, ML., Doherty, TS., Driessen, MM., Eichholtzer, AC., Elliott, TF., Elsworth, P., Fancourt, BA., Fardell, LL., Faris, J., Fawcett, AM., Fisher, DO., Forsyth, DM., Garza-Garcia, A., Geary, WL., Giumelli, PJ., Gracanin, A., Grantham, HS., Greenville, AC., Griffiths, SR., Groffen, H., Hamilton, DG., Harriott, L., Heard, H., Heiniger, J., Helgen, KM., Hernandez-Santin, L., Herrera, C., Hirsch, BT., Hohnen, R., Hollings, T., Hradsky, BA., Humphrey, JE., Jennings, P., Kelly, CL., Kennedy, MS., Knipler, ML., Kreplins, TL., L’Herpiniere, KL., Laurance, WF., Lavery, TH., Leedman, A., Legge, S., Letai, AV., Letnic, M., Liddell, MJ., Lieb, ZE., Lohr, CA., Maitz, N., Mason, RT., Matheus-Holland, DF., McComb, L., McDonalnd, PJ., McGregor, H., McKnight, DT., McSorley, A., Meek, PD., Menon, V., Michael, DR., Mills, CH., Miritis, V., Moore, H., Murphy, BP., Natusch, D., Neilly, H., Nevill, P., Newman, P., Newsome, TM., Nimmo, DG., Nordberg, EJ., O’Dwyer, TW., O’Neill, S., Old, JM., Pauza, M., Pestell, AJL., Pocknee, CA., Possingham, HP., Raiter, K., Rand, J., Rees, MW., Rendall, AR., Renwick, J., Reside, A., Rew-Duffy, M., Ritchie, EG., Roach, C., Robley, A., Rog, S., Rout, TM., Schlacher, T., Scomparin, CR., Sitter, H., Smith, DA., Somaweera, R., Spencer, E., Spindler, RE., Stobo-Wilson, AM., Streeting, LM., Sutherland, DR., Teixeira, D., Thompson, G., Thompson, S., Thorpe, M., Todd, SJ., Towerton, AL., Wardle, GM., Watchorn, DJ., Watson, AWT., Weis, G., Welbergen, JA., Weston, MA., Wijas, BJ., Williams, SE., Woodford, LP., Wooster, EIF., Luskin, MS. (submitted). Large-scale and long-term wildlife monitoring using cameras: a continental synthesis. Biological Reviews.

Chalmers, S., Rendall, AR., Wevill, T. (submitted). Early indications of potential vegetation change in response to fire in a Heathy Woodland. Austral Ecology

Rendall, AR., Carlos, E., Gibson, M., Weston, MA. (submitted). Does weed removal affect space use of a territorial bird which uses weeds? Austral Ecology

Lupone, L., Cooke, R., Rendall, AR., Siegrist, A., Penton, C., Carlyon, M., Ouchtomsky, T., White, JG. (submitted). Hindcasting long-term data unveils the influence of a changing climate on small mammal communities. Diversity and Distributions

Weston, MA., Porch, N., Whisson, DA., White, JG., Cooke, R., Gagliardi, J., Rendall, AR. (2024). Birds, baits and bugs: Do different camera trap lures realise different detection rates because of their attractiveness to invertebrates? Ecological Management and Restoration. https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12603

Callas, M., Lumsden, L., Rendall, AR., Yokochi, K. (2024). Microbats in urban parks: The importance of landscape features in open urban green space. Wildlife Research 51(4). https://doi.org/10.1071/WR23079

Lo Surdo, D., Weston, MA., Rendall, AR., Porch, N. (2024). Seasonal changes of surface-active beach invertebrate assemblages at a beach in southern central Victoria. Estuaries and Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-024-01345-8.

2023

Carlos, EH., Rendall, AR., Gibson, M., Weston, MA. (2023). Maintaining vegetation structure during weed management sustains birds and small mammals. Restoration Ecology 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13972

Mitchell, MK., Rendall, AR., Lefoe, MJ., Whisson, DA. (2023). Sap tree preferences of the Yellow-bellied Glider (Petaurus australis) in central Victoria. Forest Ecology and Management 544, 121218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121218

Whisson, DA., Rivera, P., Rendall, AR. (2023). Systematic acoustic surveys inform priority conservation areas for Koalas in a modified landscape. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01620-2

Radvan, M., Rendall, AR., Weston, MA. (2023). The habitat connectivity hypothesis of escape in urban woodland birds. Behavioural Ecology. 1 – 9. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arac127

Randall, GM., Weston, MA., Rendall, AR. (2023). Interactions between European Rabbits and native marsupials in the absence of terrestrial predators. Austral Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13281

Carlos, E., Weston, MA., Gibson, M., Rendall, AR. (2023). Invasive African Boneseed and a native shrub support the same faunal assemblages in a heavily infested landscape. Weed Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/wre.12567

2022

Bradsworth, N., White, JG., Rendall, AR., Carter, N., Whisson, DA., Cooke, R. (2022). Using thresholds to determine priorities for apex predator conservation in an urban landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning 228, 104559.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104559

White, J., Sparrius, J., Robinson, T., Hale, S., Lupone, L., Healy, T., Cooke, R., Rendall, AR. (2022). Identifying climate refugia through satellite imagery: How wildlife populations respond during rainfall fluctuations. Science of the Total Environment. 851 (2), 158318 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158318

Chadwick, A., Weston, MA., Burns, T., Randall, G., Radvan, M., Rendall, AR. (2022). Natural and anthropogenic processes influence the occurrence of fauna in coastal dunes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 276 108205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108025

Ray, M., White, JG., Weston, MA., Rendall, AR., Toop, S., Dunstan, H., Hampton, J., Cooke, R. (2022). Assessing the efficacy of quail callers in attracting stubble quail and non-target predators. PLoS ONE. e0271893. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271893

Fernando, C., Kotagama, SW., Rendall, AR., Weston, MA. (2022). Defense of eggs and chicks in the polyandrous Pheasant-tailed Jacana Hydrophasianus chirurgus in Sri Lanka; Sex-roles and Intruder type. Waterbirds. https://doi.org/10.1675/063.044.0311

Fernando, C., Weston, MA., Corea, R., Pahirana, K., Rendall, AR. (2022). Asian elephant movements from natural to human-dominated landscapes mirror patterns in agricultural damage. Oryx. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605321000971

Rendall, AR., Sutherland, DS., Cooke, R., White, JG. (2022). Does the foraging ecology of feral cats change after the eradication of foxes? Biological Invasions. 24. 1413 – 1426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02718-x

Lefoe, M., Rendall, AR., McKinnon, F., Whisson, DA. (2022). Logging and wildfire limit the distribution of a vulnerable arboreal mammal. Forest Ecology and Management. 503. 119773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119773

2021

Whisson, DA., McKinnon, F., Lefoe, M., Rendall, AR. (2021). Passive acoustic monitoring for the Yellow-bellied Glider, a highly vocal arboreal marsupial. PLoS ONE 16 (5): e0252092. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252092

Rendall, AR., Webb, V., Sutherland, DR., White, JG., Renwick, L., Cooke, R. (2021). Where wildlife and traffic collide: Roadkill rates change through time in a wildlife-tourism hotspot. Global Ecology and Conservation. e01530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01530

Bradsworth, N., White, JG., Rendall, AR., Carter, N., Cooke, R. (2021). Where to sleep in the city? How urbanisation impacts roosting habitat availability for an apex predator. Global Ecology and Conservation. e01494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01494

Rendall, AR., Sutherland, DS., Baker, CM., Raymond, B., Cooke, R. & White, JG. (2021). Managing ecosystems in a sea of uncertainty: invasive species management and assisted colonisations. Ecological Applications. 31(4), e2306. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2306

Rendall, AR., White, JG., Cooke, R., Whisson, DA., Schneider, T., Beilharz, L., Poelsma, E., Ryeland, J., Weston, MA. (2021). Taking the bait: The influence of attractants and mircohabitat on detections of fauna by remote-sensing cameras. Ecological Management & Restoration. emr.1244. https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12444

2020

Whisson, DA., Rendall, AR., Gibson, M. (2020). History of Australian plant and verebrate pests: introductions and impacts. The Victorian Naturalist. 137(6), 162 – 169

Charuvi, A., Lees, D., Glover, H., Rendall, AR., Dann, P. & Weston, MA. (2020). A physiological cost to behavioural tolerance. Behavioural Processes. 181, pp. 104250.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104250

Miritis, V., Rendall, AR., Doherty, TS., Coetsee, AL. & Ritchie, EG. (2020). Living with the enemy: a threatened prey species coexisting with feral cats on a fox-free island. Wildlife Research. 47 (8), pp. 633 – 642. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR19202

Adriaanse, K., Lynch, M., Firestone, S., Rendall, AR., Sutherland, DR., Hufschmid, J., & Traub, R. (2020). Comparison of the modified agglutination test and real-time PCR for detection of Toxoplasma gondii exposure in feral cats from Phillip Island, Australia, and risk factors associated with infection. International Journal of Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife. 12. pp. 126 – 133.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2020.05.006

Cooke, R., Rendall, AR., Weston, MA., Porch, N., Bradsworth, N., & White, JG. (2020). Photography can determine the sex of a predator with limited sexual dimorphism: A case study of the powerful owl. Global Ecology and Conservation. e00959.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00959

Ashman, K., Rendall, AR., Symonds, M. & Whisson, DA. (2020). Understanding the role of plantations in the abundance of an arboreal folivore. Landscape and Urban Planning. 193. pp.103684.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103684

2019

Halstead, L., Sutherland, DR., Valentine, L., Rendall, AR., Coetsee, A. & Ritchie, E. (2019). Digging up the dirt: Quantifying the effects on soil of a translocated ecosystem engineer. Austral Ecology. 45 (1), pp 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.12833

Rendall, AR., Cooke, R., White, JG. & Weston, M. (2019). Zonation of a small mammal community within coastal dunes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 217, pp 206-210.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2018.11.023

2018

Hagens, SV., Rendall, AR. & Whisson, DA. (2018). Passive acoustic surveys for predicting species’ distributions: Optimising detection probability. PLoS ONE, 13 (7): e0199396.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199396

Rendall, AR., Coetsee, A. & Sutherland, DR. (2018). Predicting suitable release sites for assisted colonisations: a case study of eastern barred bandicoots. Endangered Species Research, 36, pp. 137-148. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00893

2017

Legge, S., Murphy, B.P., McGregor, H., Woinarski, J.C.Z., Augusteyn, J., Ballard, G., Baseler, M., Buckmaster, T., Dickman, C.R., Doherty, T., Edwards, G., Eyre, T., Fancourt, B.A., Ferguson, D., Forsyth, D.M., Geary, W.L., Gentle, M., Gillespie, G., Greenwood, L., Hohnen, R., Hume, S., Johnson, C.N., Maxwell, M., McDonald, P.J., Morris, K., Moseby, K., Newsome, T., Nimmo, D., Paltridge, R., Ramsey, D., Read, J., Rendall, AR., Rich, M., Ritchie, E., Rowland, J., Short, J., Stokeld, D., Sutherland, D.R., Wayne, A.F., Woodford, L. & Zewe, F. (2017). Enumerating a continental scale threat: How many feral cats are in Australia? Biological Conservation, 206, pp. 293-303.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.11.032

Cooke, R., Grant, H., Ebsworth, I., Rendall, AR., Isaac, B. & White, J. (2017). Can owls be used to monitor the impacts of urbanisation? A cautionary tale of variable detection. Wildlife Research, 44 (7) , pp. 206 – 210. https://doi.org/10.1071/WR16185

2016

Weaving, M.J., White, J.G., Isaac, B., Rendall, AR. & Cooke, R. (2016). Adaptation to urban environments promotes high reproductive success in the tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides), an endemic nocturnal bird species. Landscape and Urban Planning, 150, pp. 87 – 95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.03.001

2014

Rendall, AR., Sutherland, DR., Cooke, R. & White, JG. (2014). Camera trapping: A contemporary approach to monitoring invasive rodents in high conservation priority ecosystems. PLoS ONE, 9 (3): e86592. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086592.