Eamonn Wooster

Dr Eamonn Wooster

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Gulbali Institute

Biography

I am postdoctoral fellow at the Gulbali Institute at Charles Sturt University. I completed my PhD in 2022 at the University of Technology Sydney. I was awarded the Gulbali DECRA track postdoctoral fellowship to continue my research on how disturbance shapes species interactions. My work combines field research with meta-analytic and macro-ecological approaches to understand predator-prey interactions in a changing world. Beyond this, I have an interest in the behavioural dimensions of predator-prey ecology, specifically how animal cognition and culture shape predator-prey interactions and their associated ecosystem function.

Research
  • Behavioural ecology
  • Predator-prey ecology
  • Conservation biology
  • Socio-ecology
  • Disturbance ecology
  • Macroecology
  • Urban ecology
Publications
Full publications list on CRO

Recent Publications

  • Wooster, E. I. F., Whiting, M. J., Nimmo, D. G., Sayol, F., Carthey, A. J. R., Stanton, L. A., & Ashton, B. J. (2026). Predator–prey interactions as drivers of cognitive evolution. Nature Reviews Biodiversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-026-00141-5
  • Nimmo, D. G., Geary, W., Moore, H. A., Wooster, E. I. F., Jolly, C. J., Linley, G. D., McAuley, C., Nichols, H., Simpson, A., Sonter, L. J., Westaway, D., Tayer, T. C., Wilson, B. C. W., Cowan, M. A., & Administrator, S. P. (2025). The Underestimated Global Impact of Mining on Threatened Species. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5389300
  • Linley, G. D., Jolly, C. J., Wooster, E. I. F., Cunningham, C. X., Spencer, E. E., Westaway, D. M., & Nimmo, D. G. The impact of gigafire on vegetation structure, terrestrial vertebrate abundance and diel activity. Oikos, n/a(n/a), e11022. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11022
  • Cowan, M. A., Wooster, E. I. F., Gibson, L. A., Setterfield, S. A., Dunlop, J. A., & Nimmo, D. G. (2025). Mining reshapes animal communities at a local and landscape-scale. Biological Conservation, 308, 111252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111252
  • Wooster, E. ., Lundgren, E., Balisi, M., Lemoine, R., Sandom, C., Svenning, J.-C., Rowan, J., Jolly, C., Linley, G., Cowan, M., Wright, N., Westaway, D., Nimmo, D., Nichols, H. and Middleton, O. (2024), Functional Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators. Global Ecololgy and Biogeography e13909. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13909