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ProfessorChristopher Johnson

Adjunct Professor

Office of the School of Natural Sciences

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  • Adjunct Professor
    Office of the School of Natural Sciences
  • +61 3 6226 2745 (Fax)
  • +61 3 6226 6634 (Work)
  • School of Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences, 342 Life Sciences Building, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy

Research Supervision

Professor Johnson has supervised a total of 61 MSc/PhD students, with 39 completions and 12 students still in progress, as well as 35 Honours students.

SUPERVISION & TEACHING

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Wedge-tailed eagle disturbance
    29 Jan 2026
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Assessing and monitoring the abundance of Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles
    30 Sep 2024
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ecology of Tasmanian birds of prey
    22 Jan 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Long-term Biogeography of Forest Beetles in lutruwita/Tasmania
    3 Dec 2019 - 27 Aug 2025
    Tessa Rose Smith
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Advancing Ecological Restoration in Flammable Systems: Insights from a simulation and two field studies
    4 Feb 2019 - 28 Aug 2024
    Ben Jacob French
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Impacts of Fallow Deer (Dama dama) on Tasmanian Vegetation
    14 Jan 2019 - 22 Apr 2026
    Thomas Ryan Guy
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Rabbits to Control Cats: Open landscape conservation of reintroduced western quolls
    7 Nov 2018 - 20 Mar 2024
    Jeroen Jansen
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Mechanistic Exploration of the Effects of Human Land-use on the Balance between Native and Invasive Mammal Species
    6 Nov 2018 - 22 Aug 2023
    Antje Lai-Yen Chiu Werner
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ecology and Control of Feral Cats on a Large Island Ecosystem
    10 Apr 2018 - 16 Dec 2022
    Cyril Scomparin
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Interactions between Native Lizards and Introduced Mammals in New Zealand’s Dryland Ecosystems
    1 May 2017 - 17 Dec 2019
    Hannah Blomfield Cliff
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Reasons for Rewilding: The ethical and ecological principles of a novel mode of environmental restoration
    1 Feb 2017 - 3 May 2022
    Tristan Turner Derham
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Process-explicit Approaches to Predicting and Managing Range Changes in Australian Marsupials
    19 Dec 2016 - 13 Aug 2021
    Shane Morris
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Local Scale Abundance, Demography, and Population Trends of Feral Horses (Equus ferus caballus) in the Australian Alps National Parks
    9 Nov 2015 - 27 Aug 2025
    Catherine Denise Butler
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Conservation Introduction of Top Predator to an Island Triggers Ecological Cascades
    6 Oct 2015 - 22 Aug 2020
    Vincent Paul Scoleri
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Cascading Ecological Effects of Changes in Abundance of an Apex Predator, the Tasmanian Devil
    29 Jun 2015 - 14 Aug 2020
    Calum Xavier Cunningham
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Restoring Habitat for Woodland Bird Communities of the Tasmanian Midlands
    15 Feb 2015 - 17 Dec 2019
    Glen Colin Bain
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Understanding the Response of a Critical Weight Range Mammal to Habitat Loss and Fragmentation in the Midlands Bioregion, Tasmania
    17 Nov 2014 - 16 Aug 2019
    Riana Gardiner
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Restoring Farmland for Biodiversity: A carnivorous perspective
    16 Sep 2014 - 17 Dec 2019
    Rowena Penelope Hamer
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Socio-ecology of Wildlife Conservation on Private Land
    26 May 2014 - 18 Dec 2024
    Matthew Dawe Taylor
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Landscape and Restoration Genetics of Contrasting Tasmanian Marsupials
    28 Apr 2014 - 16 Aug 2019
    Kirstin Marie Proft
  • COMPLETED MASTERS SUPERVISION
    Distribution of Native and Invasive Mammalian Carnivores in a Forestry and Agricultural Landscape in Northwest Tasmania
    10 Dec 2012 - 18 Aug 2018
    Joanna Margaret Lyall
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Constraints on Maternal Ability to Adjust Sex Ratios in Mammals
    24 Sep 2012 - 12 Aug 2016
    Amy Margarett Edwards
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Dynamics of a Refuge: Factors supporting small mammal persistence in the north Kimberley, Western Australia
    19 Mar 2012 - 23 Sep 2016
    Rosemary Hohnen
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Resource Use and Coexistence of Sympatric Tasmanian Devils and Spotted-Tailed Quolls
    10 Oct 2011 - 13 Dec 2016
    Georgina Elizabeth Andersen
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Drought, Disease or Devil Declines? Identifying the Cause of Decline of the Eastern Quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus
    1 Feb 2011 - 14 Aug 2015
    Bronwyn Anne Fancourt