Dr Andrea Taylor

Phone: + 61 3 9905 5623
Fax: + 61 3 9905 5613
E-mail: Andrea.Taylor@sci.monash.edu.au

The Molecular Ecology Research Group comprises the research groups of Paul Sunnucks and Andrea Taylor. We share facilities and procedures, have strongly overlapping research interests and group meetings.

• Social and genetic effects of habitat fragmentation on Australian mammals
• Conservation management of northern hairy-nosed wombats
• Barrier effect of roads on animal dispersal

• Lada H, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (accepted 6/8/08) Impacts of massive landscape change on a carnivorous marsupial in south-eastern Australia: inferences from landscape genetics analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology
• Hansen B & Taylor AC (in press) Isolated remnant or recent introduction? Estimating the provenance of Yellingbo Leadbeater’s possums by genetic analysis and bottleneck simulation. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2008.03900.x
• Piggott M, Wilson R, Marks CA, Banks SC, Gigliotti F & Taylor AC (in press) Evaluating exotic predator control programs using non-invasive genetic tagging. Wildlife Research
• Lada H, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (2008) Phenotype and gene flow in a marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) in contrasting habitats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 303-314.
• Lada H, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (2008) Distinguishing past from present gene flow along and across a river: the case of the carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) on southern Australian floodplains. Conservation Genetics 9: 569-580.
• Lada H, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (2008) Responses of a carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) to local habitat factors in two types of forests. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 398-407.
• Walker FM, Sunnucks P & Taylor AC (2008) Evidence for habitat fragmentation altering within-population processes in wombats. Molecular Ecology 17: 1674-1684.
• Walker FM, Taylor AC & Sunnucks P (2008) Female dispersal and male kinship-based association in southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). Molecular Ecology 17: 1361–1374.
• Banks SC, Stow A, Piggott M & Taylor AC (2007) Sex and sociality in a disconnected world: a review of the effects of habitat fragmentation on animal social behaviour. Canadian Journal of Zoology 85: 1065-1079.
• Martin JK, Handasyde KA, Taylor AC & Coulson G (2007) Long-term pair bonds without mating fidelity in a mammal. Behaviour 144: 1419-1445.
• Kraaijeveld-Smit FJL, Lindenmayer DB, Taylor AC, MacGregor C, Wertheim B (2007) Comparative genetic structure reflects underlying life histories of three sympatric small mammal species in continuous forest of south-eastern Australia. Oikos 116: 1819-1830.
• Beckman J, Banks S, Sunnucks P, Lill A & Taylor AC (2007) Phylogeography and environmental correlates of a cap on reproduction: teat-number in a small marsupial, Antechinus agilis. Molecular Ecology 16:1069-1083.
• Taylor AC, Tyndale-Biscoe H & Lindenmayer DB (2007) Unexpected persistence on habitat islands: genetic signatures reveal dispersal of a eucalypt-dependent marsupial through a hostile pine matrix. Molecular Ecology 16: 2655-2666.
• Lada H, Mac Nally R, Horrocks G & Taylor AC (2007) Genetic reconstruction of the effects of floods on population dynamics of a marsupial carnivore (Antechinus flavipes) on Australian floodplains. Molecular Ecology 16: 2934-2947.
• Lada H, Thomson J, Mac Nally R, Horrocks G & Taylor AC (2007) Evaluating simultaneous impacts of three anthropogenic effects on a floodplain-dwelling marsupial Antechinus flavipes. Biological Conservation 134: 527-536.
• Walker FM, Taylor AC & Sunnucks P (2007) Does soil type drive social organization in southern hairy-nosed wombats? Molecular Ecology 16: 199-208.
• Martin JK, Handasyde KA & Taylor AC (2007) Linear roadside remnants: their influence on den-use, home range and mating system in bobucks (Trichosurus cunninghami). Austral Ecology 32: 686-696.
• Charlton K, Taylor AC & McKechnie SW (2006) A note on divergent mtDNA lineages of “bottlenose” dolphins from coastal waters of southern Australia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 8: 173-179.
• Piggott MP, Banks SC, Stone N, Banffy C & Taylor AC (2006) Estimating population size of endangered brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) colonies using faecal DNA. Molecular Ecology 15: 81-91.
• Piggott MP, Banks SC and Taylor AC (2006) Population structure of brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata)colonies inferred from analysis of faecal DNA. Molecular Ecology 15: 93-105.
• Walker FM, Sunnucks P & Taylor AC (2006) Genotyping of ‘captured’ hairs reveals burrow-use and ranging behavior of southern hairy-nosed wombats. Journal of Mammalogy 87: 690-699.