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Email

tyrone.lavery@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Lecturer in Native Vertebrate Biology
School of BioSciences
Education
Doctorate
The University of Queensland
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
The University of Queensland
ORCID

0000-0001-5397-4974

Dr Tyrone Lavery

Lecturer in Native Vertebrate Biology
School of BioSciences

61 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Establishing foundations: Designing a long-term experiment to evaluate whether nestboxes assist population recovery of an endangered species after fire
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0334130
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Relegating Species Descriptions to Electronic Supplementary Information Puts Critical Data for Taxonomy at Risk
    DOI: 10.1002/ece3.72234
  • 2025

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Sizing Up Parallel Evolution in Island Bats With Genomics, Ecology and ‘Magic Traits’
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Quantifying taxon-specific habitat connectivity requirements of urban wildlife using structured expert judgement
    DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.110991
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot
    DOI: 10.1007/s13280-024-02126-0
  • 2024

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Monitoring a New Subspecies in the Age of Megafire: Wet Tropics Yellow-Bellied Glider.
  • 2024

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Research Support for Indigenous-Led Conservation in the Kimberley
Tyrone Lavery

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2024
2024 Whitley Medal Royal Zoological Society of NSW
2023
Young Tall Poppy Science Award Australian Institute of Policy & Science
2017
Negaunee Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Field Museum of Natural History
2016
Expedition Fellowship Australian Museum Research Institute & Museum Foundation

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Large-scale and long-term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis
    DOI: 10.1111/brv.13152
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Monitoring the Endangered wiliji (Petrogale lateralis kimberleyensis) on Nyikina Mangala Country (Western Australia) using camera traps
    DOI: 10.1071/wr24081
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Genomic patterns in the dwarf kingfishers of northern Melanesia reveal a mechanistic framework explaining the paradox of the great speciators
    DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrae035
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Conflict in New Caledonia endangers one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots
    DOI: 10.1038/d41586-024-03359-5
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Can 30 × 30 targets stop island extinctions?
    DOI: 10.1002/fee.2790
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Australian megafires alter predicted distribution of the southern greater glider (Petauroides volans)
    DOI: 10.1111/aec.13582

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2025

    Research grants (international)

    Southern New Guinea Wildlife Harvest Study
  • 2025

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Advancing Monitoring Methods for Northern Yellow-Bellied Gliders

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