ProfessorMenna Jones

Professor

Biological Sciences

  • Professor
    Biological Sciences
  • School of Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences, 320e Life Sciences Building, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy

Teaching Responsibilities

Units

·       KPZ006 Backyard Biodiversity

·       KZA161 Biology of Animals

·       KPZ211 Population and Community Ecology

·       KPZ314 Fauna of Tasmania

·       KPZ308 Biodiversity Conservation

·       KPZ301 Tasmanian Field Ecology

 

 

SUPERVISION & TEACHING

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Faunal Responses to Strategic Rabbit Control in Semi-Arid Australia: Ecosystem Restoration and Connectivity in the Flinders Ranges.
    7 Oct 2025
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Quoll translocation individual attributes
    18 Mar 2024
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Conservation of Forest Birds: Safeguarding bird biodiversity in forest landscapes
    10 Nov 2022
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mammal Responses to Forestry and Wildfire
    3 Oct 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Ecological Interactions and Evolutionary Signatures of Invasive Black Rats in Anthropogenic Tasmanian Ecosystems
    20 Apr 2021 - 26 Aug 2026
    Kawinwit Kittipalawattanapol
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Predators, Patchy Landscapes and Parasites: Comparing responses to novel threats in two Tasmanian bandicoots
    1 Dec 2020
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Tasmanian Eastern Barred Bandicoot: Distribution and abundance, habitat use and response to restoration;;
    6 Oct 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Response of Marsupial Carnivores to Production Forest Landscapes and Operations
    3 Dec 2019 - 17 Oct 2023
    Evie Maree Jones
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Environmental Accounting and the Construction of Landscapes
    18 Nov 2019 - 26 Aug 2026
    Rowan Alden Hull
  • 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
    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
    Behaviour, Social Networks and Transmission of Devil Facial Tumour Disease
    1 Oct 2014 - 14 Aug 2020
    David Grant Hamilton
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The spatial epidemiology of the Devil Facial Tumour Disease in long-diseased populations of its unique host, the Tasmanian devil
    18 Sep 2014 - 16 Aug 2019
    Sebastien Comte
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Restoring Farmland for Biodiversity: A carnivorous perspective
    16 Sep 2014 - 17 Dec 2019
    Rowena Penelope Hamer
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The microbial ecology of transmission sites of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease
    1 Jul 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Tasmanian Devil and its Transmissible Cancer: Physiology of the devil-devil interaction
    7 Jun 2014 - 17 Dec 2019
    Manuel Ignacio Andres Ruiz Aravena
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Landscape and Restoration Genetics of Contrasting Tasmanian Marsupials
    28 Apr 2014 - 16 Aug 2019
    Kirstin Marie Proft
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Immune Recognition of Devil Facial Tumour Disease by the Tasmanian Devil
    18 Jan 2013 - 19 Aug 2017
    Ruth Jacqueline Pye