Extreme mobility of the world’s largest flying mammals creates key challenges for management and conservation

Unprecedented burn area of Australian mega forest fires

(2020) Matthias M. Boer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Using weather radar to monitor the number, timing and directions of flying-foxes emerging from their roosts

(2019) Jessica Meade et al.   Scientific Reports

The problem of scale in the prediction and management of pathogen spillover

(2019) Daniel J. Becker et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Hermans–Rasson test as a powerful alternative to the Rayleigh test for circular statistics in biology

(2019) Lukas Landler et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Optimal foraging in seasonal environments: implications for residency of Australian flying foxes in food-subsidized urban landscapes

(2018) David J. Páez et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hendra Virus Infection Dynamics in the Grey-Headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) at the Southern-Most Extent of Its Range: Further Evidence This Species Does Not Readily Transmit the Virus to Horses

(2016) A. L. Burroughs et al.   PLoS One

Landscape Utilisation, Animal Behaviour and Hendra Virus Risk

(2015) H. E. Field et al.   EcoHealth

High-resolution GPS tracking of Lyle's flying fox between temples and orchards in central Thailand

(2015) Natalie Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

High-resolution GPS tracking reveals habitat selection and the potential for long-distance seed dispersal by Madagascan flying foxes Pteropus rufus

(2015) Ryszard Oleksy et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Automatic Time Series Forecasting: TheforecastPackage forR

(2015) Rob J. Hyndman et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Natural Hendra Virus Infection in Flying-Foxes - Tissue Tropism and Risk Factors

(2015) Lauren K. Goldspink et al.   PLoS One

Pronounced Seasonal Changes in the Movement Ecology of a Highly Gregarious Central-Place Forager, the African Straw-Coloured Fruit Bat (Eidolon helvum)

(2015) Jakob Fahr et al.   PLoS One

Spatiotemporal Aspects of Hendra Virus Infection in Pteropid Bats (Flying-Foxes) in Eastern Australia

(2015) Hume Field et al.   PLoS One

Routes of Hendra Virus Excretion in Naturally-Infected Flying-Foxes: Implications for Viral Transmission and Spillover Risk

(2015) Daniel Edson et al.   PLoS One

Conserving mobile species

(2014) Claire A Runge et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Flying-Fox Species Density - A Spatial Risk Factor for Hendra Virus Infection in Horses in Eastern Australia

(2014) Craig Smith et al.   PLoS One

Are Flying-Foxes Coming to Town? Urbanisation of the Spectacled Flying-Fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) in Australia

(2014) Jessica Tait et al.   PLoS One

Ranging Patterns and Habitat Use of a Solitary Flying Fox (Pteropus dasymallus) on Okinawa-jima Island, Japan

(2013) Atsushi Nakamoto et al.   ACTA CHIROPTEROLOGICA

Satellite tracking large numbers of individuals to infer population level dispersal and core areas for the protection of an endangered species

(2013) Gail Schofield et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Hendra Virus and Horse Owners – Risk Perception and Management

(2013) Nina Kung et al.   PLoS One

Migratory connectivity magnifies the consequences of habitat loss from sea-level rise for shorebird populations

(2013) T. Iwamura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Assessment of monitoring power for highly mobile vertebrates

(2012) David A. Westcott et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonization

(2012) C. J. A. Bradshaw   Journal of Plant Ecology

Long-Distance and Frequent Movements of the Flying-Fox Pteropus poliocephalus: Implications for Management

(2012) Billie J. Roberts et al.   PLoS One

Assessing the accuracy of small satellite transmitters on free-living flying-foxes

(2011) ADAM McKEOWN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Latitudinal range shifts in Australian flying-foxes: A re-evaluation

(2011) BILLIE J. ROBERTS et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Energetic and biomechanical constraints on animal migration distance

(2011) Andrew M. Hein et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Satellite Telemetry and Long-Range Bat Movements

(2011) Craig S. Smith et al.   PLoS One

Urban habituation, ecological connectivity and epidemic dampening: the emergence of Hendra virus from flying foxes (Pteropus spp.)

(2011) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Infection with Menangle virus in flying foxes (Pteropus spp.) in Australia

(2010) AW Philbey et al.   AUSTRALIAN VETERINARY JOURNAL

Bats Without Borders: Long-Distance Movements and Implications for Disease Risk Management

(2010) Andrew C. Breed et al.   EcoHealth

Growth, bimaturation, and sexual size dimorphism in wild gray-headed flying foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus)

(2010) J. A. Welbergen   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Fit females and fat polygynous males: seasonal body mass changes in the grey-headed flying fox

(2010) Justin A. Welbergen   OECOLOGIA

Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migration

(2010) C. Egevang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pteropus vampyrus, a hunted migratory species with a multinational home-range and a need for regional management

(2009) Jonathan H. Epstein et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Roosting Pattern and Reproductive Cycle of Bonin Flying Foxes (Pteropus pselaphon)

(2009) Norimasa Sugita et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Spatio-temporal vigilance architecture of an Australian flying-fox colony

(2008) Stefan M. Klose et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Reproduction and nutritional stress are risk factors for Hendra virus infection in little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus)

(2008) R. K Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

(2008) Ran Nathan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Travelling through a warming world: climate change and migratory species

(2008) RA Robinson et al.   Endangered Species Research

Climate change and the effects of temperature extremes on Australian flying-foxes

(2007) J. A Welbergen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES