Dr Greg Johnston

Contact Details

Key Responsibilities

• Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity & Conservation
• Conservation Biologist with Zoos SA (Royal Zoological Society of SA)

Teaching

• BIOD1102 - Biodiversity & Conservation 1
• BIOD2100 - Biodiversity & Conservation 2
• BIOD3001 - Biodiversity & Conservation 3
• BIOL7004 - Scientific Method & Data Presentation

Research

My position at Flinders University commenced in February 2008 and is jointly funded by the Royal Zoological Society of South Australia (Zoos SA). I have been a conservation biologist with Zoos SA since 2000.

My interests are broad, lying in the general areas of evolution, ecology, behaviour and conservation. I have worked on mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and scorpions in Australia, New Guinea, the Middle East and Central America.

I am currently involved with several projects that bring scientific approaches to applied conservation. These include optimising methods for translocating bilbies, wallabies and woma pythons.

See publication list

Community Service

• President of the Australian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (ASSAB)

• Australian representative to the International Council of Ethologists

• Member of the Pelican Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

• Member, Board of Directors, Biocity@UniSA, University of South Australia

• Member of the Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity

• Honorary Research Associate, South Australian Museum

• Member of the South Australian Mainland Tammar Wallaby Recovery Team

Current Postgraduate Students

Josh Griffiths is experimentally testing the success of various reintroduction methods to establish new populations of the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) at the Arid Recovery Project, in northern South Australia. He is a PhD candidate in School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. Sue Carthew.

Leah Kemp is experimentally testing the importance of group familiarity for establishment of South Australian Mainland Tammar Wallabies (Macropus eugenii eugenii) following their reintroduction into Innes National Park, South Australia. She is a PhD candidate in School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. Sue Carthew.

Joanne Lee is documenting the effect of mining exploration tracks on mallee mammals and reptiles at Pinkawillinie Conservation Park, South Australia. She is a PhD candidate in School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. Sue Carthew.  

Current Honours Students

Jade Adams is documenting the demography of urban marbled geckoes (Christinus marmoratus) at the School of Natural & Built Environments at the University of South Australia. Co-supervised with Prof. C.B. Daniels, University of South Australia.

Michael Geen is looking at the influence of colour, body size and posture on heat flux in reptiles. He is in the School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University

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