Rate My Professor Mathew Crowther

Crowther's research specializes in Australian mammals, including koalas, dingoes, and small mammals, with a focus on integrating empirical data and advanced quantitative methods to evaluate ecological threats, predict outcomes, and support conservation decisions. Key projects encompass fine-scale GPS tracking and remote sensing to study koala behavior, habitat selection, nutrition, thermoregulation, and climate responses, which have informed the NSW Koala Strategy and the Commonwealth's Endangered listing for the koala; investigations into dingo top-down control over mesopredators and herbivores, reshaping national predator management approaches; and analysis of predator chemical cues eliciting fear responses in rodents, yielding applications for urban pest control. He has produced over 260 peer-reviewed publications, earning more than 6,000 citations and an h-index of 40. Notable papers include "Patch quality and habitat fragmentation shape the foraging patterns of a specialist folivore" (2022, Behavioral Ecology), "A Theory of Change for promoting coexistence between dingoes and livestock in Australia" (2020, Conservation Science and Practice), "Impacts of colonisation on dingoes are written in their bones: new research" (2025), and "Routine movement and resource tracking in a specialist arboreal folivore: sex-and season-dependent revisits by koalas" (2026). Crowther is an Associate Editor for Oecologia, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Animals, and engages in interdisciplinary collaborations with government agencies, NGOs, and land managers to advance biodiversity protection and policy.