Dr Ken Sanderson

Recent Honours Students & their Theses Titles

pdf indicates theses which may be downloaded as pdf files

• 2006 Tegan Laslett (vertebrate palaeontology): Cave faunal analysis

• 2006 Nardi Cribb (marine biology - dolphins):

• 2005-6 Nicole Filby (marine biology - dolphins): Distribution of common dolphins in Gulf St Vincent

• 2005 Melissa Pitts (marine biology - dolphins): Distribution of bottle-nose dolphins in Port River

• 2004-5 Trish Lavery (marine biology - dolphins): Heavy metal toxicology in South Australian bottle-nose dolphins

• 2004 Andrew Manning (oyster acquaculture): The role of phenoloxidase in stress response of pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas

• 2004 Evan Parker (vertebrate palaeontology): Morphological Analysis of Rodent Limb Bones

• 2002 Kate Miller (tuna aquaculture), see poster presented at Aquafin CRC meeting October 2003   pdf(1 mb)

• 2001-2 Melinda Kovac (bandicoots): The effect of food availability on litter size of the Southern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus obesulus pdf (4,463 kb)

• 2001 Rebecca Bradford (cheetahs): Sociality, mate selection and reproductive behaviours of captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) pdf (5 MB)

• 2000 Julia Alessio (bandicoots): The habitat preference and diet of the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus), within Scott Creek Conservation park, South Australia pdf (1,926 kb)

• 2000 Nicola Reese (bandicoots): A study of Isoodon obesulus obesulus and the effects of pest species in Melville Gully, Belair National Park pdf (4,047 kb)

• 1999-2000 Josie Goodyear (falcons): The response of australian kestrels (Falco cenchroides) to variation in the structure of the aerial alarm calls of domestic chickens (Gallus gallus) pdf (452 kb)

• 1999 Darren Richardson (bandicoots): Habitat preference and geographic range of the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus) in Belair National Park, South Australia

• 1999 Joanna Bonner (bats): Winter roosting habits of three insectivorous house-dwelling bats (Genera Chalinolobus, Mormopterus, Nyctophilus) in southern temperate Australia) pdf (1,356 kb)

• 1997 Sharon Wenzel (falcons & honeyeaters): Alarm calls and their function in avian predator-prey interactions pdf (212 kb)

• 1997 Jon Codd (bats): Overwintering behavioural strategies and roosting activity budget of the common bent wing bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) at the Naracoorte Caves conservation park  pdf (155 kb)

• 1996 Jeffrey Kwik (leafy sea dragon): Habitat preference and distribution of the leafy sea dragon, Phycodurus eques in South Australia

• 1996 Monette Swanson (owls): Acoustic perception of alarm calls and natural sounds in Australian owls and frogmouths

• 1995 Chris Coxon (lobsters): Bait preferences and chemoattraction in the southern rock lobster, Jasus edwardsii

• 1992 Adam Cronin (bats): The hunting behaviour of some south Australian vespertilionids pdf(1352 kb)

• 1991-2 Maya Penck (rosellas): Breeding biology and vocalisation differences facilitating coexistence of Adelaide and eastern rosellas during the breeding season (Aves: Platycercidae) pdf (4 mb)

• 1991 Adrian Meedeniya (rock lobsters): Southern Rock Lobsters Jasus edwardsii, community structure, den occupancy, interactions with Octopus pdf (7 mb)

• 1967 Ken Sanderson (tuataras): The preferred body temperature and responses to temperature in the tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus. (unpublished honours thesis pdf)

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