Dr David Taggart
Affiliate Conservation Research Fellow
School of Animal and Veterinary Science
Faculty of Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
- Use of highly interactive wildlife species to deliver ecosystem and production landscape benefits
- Marsupial - life history, ecology, reproductive biology and conservation studies
- Development and application of translocation and reintroduction methodologies for marsupials
- Development and application of assisted reproductive technologies in rare and endangered marsupials
- Spatial distribution and abundance studies in Australian vertebrate fauna
- Genetic studies and management of Australian wildlife
- Wildlife health and disease in Australia’s native mammal fauna
Across the past 15 years I have obtained significant funding to support wildlife conservation and research programs / activities from federal granting bodies, state government granting bodies, philanthropic trusts, philanthropic individuals and the corporate sector. I and collaborators currently have 2 ARC Linkage Grants looking at: ‘Hairy-nosed wombat distribution and ecology' and the ‘Use of unmanned aerial vehicles for tracking and monitoring wildlife’ and Federal funding to commence a Re-wilding project on the Southern Yorke Peninsula
Year – Present Supervision of 15 PhD, 2 Masters, and 35 Honours Students
University of Adelaide, Monash University, University of Melbourne
2017-Present Course Co-ordinator / Lecturer Ecology and Management of Vertebrate Pests
School of Animal and Veterinary science, University of Adelaide, South Australia
2017-Present Casual lecturer Wildlife Management
School of Animal and Veterinary science, University of Adelaide, South Australia
2016 Casual Lecturer / Co-Course Co-coordinator Wildlife Management
School of Animal and Veterinary science, University of Adelaide, South Australia
2012 Senior Lecturer in Population Ecology
School of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia
2007 Casual Lecturer in Conservation and Restoration
School of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Adelaide, South Australia
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