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Dr Ben Barth

Research Fellow
School of the Environment
b.barth@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Journal Articles (12)
Conference Paper (1)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Tacla, Philippa Kirsten, Barth, Benjamin James, Fitzgibbon, Sean Ian, Gillett, Amber Kristen and Ellis, William Anthony (2025). Patterns of activity and travel by koalas in a disturbed urban landscape in Queensland. Australian Mammalogy, 47 (1) AM24044. doi: 10.1071/AM24044
Ellis, W., Melzer, A., FitzGibbon, S., Hulse, L., Gillett, A. and Barth, B. (2022). Koalas of the Clarke Connors Range. Australian Mammalogy, 45 (2), 160-170. doi: 10.1071/am22026
Richardson, Allie, FitzGibbon, Sean, Barth, Benjamin, Gillett, Amber and Ellis, William (2021). Application of low-power wide-area network GPS to koala monitoring. Australian Mammalogy, 44 (2), 287-290. doi: 10.1071/AM21001
Adam, D., Johnston, S. D., Beard, L., Nicolson, V., Gaughan, J. B., Lisle, A. T., FitzGibbon, S., Barth, B. J., Gillett, A., Grigg, G. and Ellis, W. (2020). Body temperature of free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in south-east Queensland. International Journal of Biometeorology, 64 (8), 1305-1318. doi: 10.1007/s00484-020-01907-y
Barth, Benjamin J., Fitzgibbon, Sean I., Gillett, Amber, Wilson, Robbie S., Moffitt, Beth, Pye, Geoffrey W., Adam, Dalene, Preece, Harriet and Ellis, William A. (2020). Scattered paddock trees and roadside vegetation can provide important habitat for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in an agricultural landscape. Australian Mammalogy, 42 (2), 194-203. doi: 10.1071/AM18031
Hulse, Lyndal S., Beagley, Kenneth, Ellis, William, Fitzgibbon, Sean, Gillett, Amber, Barth, Ben, Robbins, Amy, Pyne, Michael, Larkin, Rebecca and Johnston, Stephen D. (2020). Epidemiology of chlamydia-induced reproductive disease in male koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) from Southeast Queensland, Australia as assessed from penile urethral swabs and semen. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 56 (1) 2019-03-062, 82-92. doi: 10.7589/2019-03-062
Adam, D., Beard, L., Johnston, S. D., Nicolson, V., Lisle, A., McKinnon, A., Larkin, R., Theilemann, P., Gillett, A., Brackin, K., FitzGibbon, S., Barth, B. and Ellis, W. (2018). Recording body temperature in koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus): a comparison of techniques. Australian Veterinary Journal, 96 (8), 308-311. doi: 10.1111/avj.12719
Fitzgibbon, Sean I. , Gillett, Amber K. , Barth, Ben J. , Taylor, Brendan and Ellis, William A. (2017). Do koalas really get the blues? Critique of 'Aversive behaviour by koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) during the course of a music festival in northern New South Wales, Australia'. Australian Mammalogy, 39 (1), 108-112. doi: 10.1071/AM16016
Ellis, William A., FitzGibbon, Sean I., Barth, Benjamin J., Niehaus, Amanda C., David, Gwendolyn K., Taylor, Brendan D., Matsushige, Helena, Melzer, Alistair, Bercovitch, Fred B., Carrick, Frank, Jones, Darryl N., Dexter, Cathryn, Gillett, Amber, Predavec, Martin, Lunney, Dan and Wilson, Robbie S. (2016). Daylight saving time can decrease the frequency of wildlife-vehicle collisions. Biology Letters, 12 (11). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0632
Ellis, William, FitzGibbon, Sean, Pye, Geoff, Whipple, Bill, Barth, Ben, Johnston, Stephen, Seddon, Jenny, Melzer, Alistair, Higgins, Damien and Bercovitch, Fred (2015). The role of bioacoustic signals in koala sexual selection: Insights from seasonal patterns of associations revealed with GPSProximity units. PLoS ONE, 10 (7) e0130657, e0130657. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130657
Barth, Benjamin James, FitzGibbon, Sean Ian and Wilson, Robbie Stuart (2015). New urban developments that retain more remnant trees have greater bird diversity. Landscape and Urban Planning, 136, 122-129. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.11.003
Barth, B. J. and Wilson, R. S. (2010). Life in acid: Interactive effects of pH and natural organic acids on growth, development and locomotor performance of larval striped marsh frogs (Limnodynastes peronii). Journal of Experimental Biology, 213 (8), 1293-1300. doi: 10.1242/jeb.028472

Conference Paper

Barth, B. J., Fitzgibbon, S., Carter, A. J. and Wilson, R. S. (2010). Effects of resource availability on dung beetle abundance and male horn size in Australian urban forest fragments. Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology, Seattle Wa, Jan 03-07, 2010. CARY: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.

Thesis

Barth, Benjamin James (2012). The effect of urbanisation on wildlife communities. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland.
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