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., Gaynor K.M., Carthey, A.J.R., Wallach, A.D., Stanton, L.A., Ramp, D., Lundgren E.J. (2023). Animal cognition and culture mediate predator-prey interactions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.  https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00243-4

Wallach, A.D., Ramp, D., Benítez-López, A., Wooster, E.I., Carroll, S., Carthey, A.J., Rogers, E.I., Middleton, O., Zawada, K.J., Svenning, J.C., Avidor, E., and Lundgren E.J.  (2023). Savviness of prey to introduced predators. Conservation Biology: the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. (https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14012)[https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14012]

Wooster, E.I.F., Ramp, D., Lundgren, E.J., O'Neill, A.J., Yanco, E., Bonsen, G.T. and Wallach, A.D. (2022), Predator protection dampens the landscape of fear. Oikos, 2022: e09059. [https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09059](https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09059)

Lundgren, E. J., Ramp, D., Middleton, O. S., Wooster, E. I. F., Kusch, E., Balisi, M., Ripple, W. J., Hasselerharm, C. D., Sanchez, J. N., Mills, M., & Wallach, A. D. (2022). A novel trophic cascade between cougars and feral donkeys shapes desert wetlands. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91, 2348–2357. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13766

Wooster, E.I.F., Ramp, D., Lundgren, E.J., O’Neill, A.J., Wallach, A.D. (2021) Red foxes avoid apex predation without increasing fear, Behavioral Ecology, 32:5, 895–902, 
https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arab053