By Associate Professor Neil Jordan

Book Chapters

Jordan NR, 2024, 'A leopard at the nursery door', in Wild Science, CSIRO Publishing, pp. 32 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486317646.bk08128_ch5

Jordan NR; Golabek KA; Marneweck CJ; Marneweck DG; Mbizah MM; Ngatia D; Rabaiotti D; Tshimologo B; Watermeyer J, 2023, 'Hunting Behavior and Social Ecology of African Wild Dogs', in Social Strategies of Carnivorous Mammalian Predators, Springer Nature, pp. 177 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29803-5_6

Buesching CD; Jordan NR, 2022, 'The Function of Carnivore Latrines', in Small Carnivores, Wiley, pp. 131 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118943274.ch7

Buesching CD; Jordan NR, 2022, 'The Function of Carnivore Latrines: Review, Case Studies, and a Research Framework for Hypothesis Testing', in Small Carnivores Evolution Ecology Behaviour and Conservation, pp. 131 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118943274.ch7

Rafiq K; Pitcher BJ; Cornelsen K; Whitney Hansen K; King AJ; Appleby RG; Abrahms B; Jordan NR, 2021, 'Animal-borne technologies in wildlife research and conservation', in Conservation Technology, pp. 105 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850243.003.0006

Buesching CD; Jordan N, 2019, 'The Social Function of Latrines: A Hypothesis-Driven Research Approach', in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 14, pp. 94 - 103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17616-7_8

Journal articles

Rafiq K; Nisi AC; Jordan NR; Golabek KA; McNutt JW; Wilson A; Prugh L; Kedikilwe D; Abrahms B, 2026, 'Warming temperatures increase close encounters between two top predator species via changes in spatial behaviour', Movement Ecology, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-026-00635-z

Alting BF; Pitcher BJ; Campbell‐Ward ML; Jordan NR, 2026, 'Observations of Inter‐Pack Conflict and Pack Instability in Contiguous Dingo Packs', Ecology and Evolution, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.74376

Leitch JR; Jordan NR; Drake JM; Cant MA; Alexander KA, 2026, 'Networks of Indirect Contact Promote Spread of an Environmentally Transmitted Pathogen in a Highly Social Species', Ecology and Evolution, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73719

Jordan N, 2026, 'Ultrasonic playbacks deter wild dingoes: implications for threatened species conservation', Wildlife Research, 53, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR25150

Nisi AC; West L; Halabisky M; Jordan NR; Kotze R; Loveridge AJ; McNutt JW; Neelo J; Prugh LR; Rafiq K; Sousa LL; Wilson AM; Bierhoff L; Abrahms B, 2026, 'Drought intensifies dominant competitor avoidance and risk-dependent habitat selection in a large carnivore guild', Oikos, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/oik.12251

Alting BF; Pitcher BJ; Jordan NR, 2025, 'Dingo visitation patterns and behaviour at long-term scent-marking sites suggests a role in mate competition', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03633-0

Alting BF; Pitcher BJ; Campbell-Ward ML; Jordan NR, 2025, 'Estimating canid territories and pack compositions: Camera traps provide comparable metrics to an intense radio-collaring programme on dingoes', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70129

Ryan SA; Southwell DM; Beranek CT; Clulow J; Jordan NR; Witt RR, 2025, 'Estimating the landscape-scale abundance of an arboreal folivore using thermal imaging drones and binomial N-mixture modelling', Biological Conservation, 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111207

Henderson EK; Pitcher BJ; Jordan NR, 2025, 'Informing apex predator management: population viability analysis of dingoes under different management scenarios', Wildlife Research, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR25041

Cornelsen KA; Elphinstone A; Jordan NR, 2025, 'Sociality of a threatened ‘solitary’ marsupial before and after population reinforcement: associations and links to breeding success', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 79, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-025-03618-z

Alting BF; Pitcher BJ; Campbell-Ward M; Jordan NR, 2025, 'Dingo movement depends on sex, social status and litter size', Royal Society Open Science, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250255

Jordan NR; Boyd ET; Conaghan J; Michelmore J; Shaw ME; Pitcher BJ, 2025, 'Effect of Carcass Feeds on Feeding Behavior and Social Interactions in Zoo-Based African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus)', Zoo Biology, 44, pp. 313 - 323, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21895

Abrahms B; Rafiq K; Nisi AC; Jordan NR; Wilson AM; Loveridge AJ; Kotze R; Sousa LL; McNutt JW, 2025, 'Intraguild competition mediates human avoidance in an endangered African large carnivore', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2835

Cornelsen KA; Elphinstone A; Jordan NR, 2025, 'Predicting success of conservation translocations: prerelease screening tools for a threatened marsupial', Animal Behaviour, 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123189

Hansen KW; Jordan NR; Claase MJ; McNutt JW; Wilson A; Wilmers CC, 2025, 'To Hunt or Patrol? Social Composition and Location Mediate Scent Marking Decisions of a Large Carnivore', Ecology and Evolution, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71567

Arbon JJ; Boogert NJ; Jordan NR; Thornton A, 2025, 'The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 380, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0136

Bruce T; Amir Z; Allen BL; Alting BF; Amos M; Augusteyn J; Ballard GA; Behrendorff LM; Bell K; Bengsen AJ; Bennett A; Benshemesh JS; Bentley J; Blackmore CJ; Boscarino-Gaetano R; Bourke LA; Brewster R; Brook BW; Broughton C; Buettel JC; Carter A; Chiu-Werner A; Claridge AW; Comer S; Comte S; Connolly RM; Cowan MA; Cross SL; Cunningham CX; Dalziell AH; Davies HF; Davis J; Dawson SJ; Di Stefano J; Dickman CR; Dillon ML; Doherty TS; Driessen MM; Driscoll DA; Dundas SJ; Eichholtzer AC; Elliott TF; Elsworth P; Fancourt BA; Fardell LL; Faris J; Fawcett A; Fisher DO; Fleming PJS; Forsyth DM; Garza-Garcia AD; Geary WL; Gillespie G; Giumelli PJ; Gracanin A; Grantham HS; Greenville AC; Griffiths SR; Groffen H; Hamilton DG; Harriott L; Hayward MW; Heard G; Heiniger J; Helgen KM; Henderson TJ; Hernandez-Santin L; Herrera C; Hirsch BT; Hohnen R; Hollings TA; Hoskin CJ; Hradsky BA; Humphrey JE; Jennings PR; Jones ME; Jordan NR; Kelly CL; Kennedy MS; Knipler ML; Kreplins TL; L'Herpiniere KL; Laurance WF; Lavery TH; Le Pla M; Leahy L; Leedman A; Legge S; Leitão AV; Letnic M; Liddell MJ; Lieb ZE; Linley GD; Lisle AT; Lohr CA; Maitz N; Marshall KD; Mason RT; Matheus-Holland DF; McComb LB, 2025, 'Large-scale and long-term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis', Biological Reviews, 100, pp. 530 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.13152

Crane J; Bino G; Jordan NR; Hawke T; O'Brien JK, 2024, 'From banks to burrows: Habitat preferences and nesting behaviours of platypuses in the Snowy River', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70347

Rafiq K; Jordan NR; McNutt JW; Neelo J; Attias N; Boersma D; Palmer MS; Ruesink J; Abrahms B, 2024, 'Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39, pp. 1059 - 1062, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.10.003

West L; Rafiq K; Converse SJ; Wilson AM; Jordan NR; Golabek KA; McNutt JW; Abrahms B, 2024, 'Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap', Journal of Animal Ecology, 93, pp. 1785 - 1798, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14192

Cornelsen KA; Elphinstone A; Jordan NR, 2024, 'Digging deeper: habitat selection within the home ranges of a threatened marsupial', Animal Behaviour, 212, pp. 149 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.03.010

Hansen KW; Jordan NR; Claase MJ; Suraci JP; McNutt JW; Dhruv A; Wilmers CC, 2024, 'Experimental modification of African wild dog movement and behavior using translocated conspecific scent', Biological Conservation, 294, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110645

Bennitt E; Bartlam-Brooks HLA; Hubel TY; Jordan NR; McNutt JW; Wilson AM, 2024, 'Proactive cursorial and ambush predation risk avoidance in four African herbivore species', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11529

Rafiq K; Jordan NR; McNutt JW; Neelo J; Attias N; Boersma D; Palmer MS; Ruesink J; Abrahms B, 2024, 'The value of field research in academia', Science, 384, pp. 855 - 856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.ado6937

Alting BF; Pitcher BJ; Rees MW; Ferrer-Paris JR; Jordan NR, 2024, 'Population density and ranging behaviour of a generalist carnivore varies with human population', Ecology and Evolution, 14, pp. e11404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11404

Hansen KW; Ranc N; Morgan J; Jordan NR; McNutt JW; Wilson A; Wilmers CC, 2024, 'How territoriality and sociality influence the habitat selection and movements of a large carnivore', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11217

Claase MJ; Cherry MI; McNutt JW; Apps PJ; Jordan NR, 2024, 'Size matters: Natural experiments suggest the dear enemy effect is moderated by pack size in African wild dogs', Ecology and Evolution, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11298

Walker BJJ; Letnic M; Bucknall MP; Watson L; Jordan NR, 2024, 'Male dingo urinary scents code for age class and wild dingoes respond to this information', Chemical Senses, 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjae004

Claase MJ; Cherry MI; Hofmann DD; Apps PJ; McNutt JW; Jordan NR, 2024, 'Patterns of scent marking by African wild dogs, Lycaon pictus, at shared marking sites', Animal Behaviour, 207, pp. 77 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.10.012

Rafiq K; Jordan NR; Golabek K; McNutt JW; Wilson A; Abrahms B, 2023, 'Increasing ambient temperatures trigger shifts in activity patterns and temporal partitioning in a large carnivore guild', Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 290, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1938

Tucker MA; Schipper AM; Adams TSF; Attias N; Avgar T; Babic NL; Barker KJ; Bastille-Rousseau G; Behr DM; Belant JL; Beyer DE; Blaum N; Blount JD; Bockmühl D; Boulhosa RLP; Brown MB; Buuveibaatar B; Cagnacci F; Calabrese JM; Černe R; Chamaillé-Jammes S; Chan AN; Chase MJ; Chaval Y; Chenaux-Ibrahim Y; Cherry SG; Ćirović D; Çoban E; Cole EK; Conlee L; Courtemanch A; Cozzi G; Davidson SC; DeBloois D; Dejid N; DeNicola V; Desbiez ALJ; Douglas-Hamilton I; Drake D; Egan M; Eikelboom JAJ; Fagan WF; Farmer MJ; Fennessy J; Finnegan SP; Fleming CH; Fournier B; Fowler NL; Gantchoff MG; Garnier A; Gehr B; Geremia C; Goheen JR; Hauptfleisch ML; Hebblewhite M; Heim M; Hertel AG; Heurich M; Hewison AJM; Hodson J; Hoffman N; Hopcraft JGC; Huber D; Isaac EJ; Janik K; Ježek M; Johansson Ö; Jordan NR; Kaczensky P; Kamaru DN; Kauffman MJ; Kautz TM; Kays R; Kelly AP; Kindberg J; Krofel M; Kusak J; Lamb CT; LaSharr TN; Leimgruber P; Leitner H; Lierz M; Linnell JDC; Lkhagvaja P; Long RA; López-Bao JV; Loretto MC; Marchand P; Martin H; Martinez LA; McBride RT; McLaren AAD; Meisingset E; Melzheimer J; Merrill EH; Middleton AD; Monteith KL; Moore SA; Van Moorter B; Morellet N, 2023, 'Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns', Science, 380, pp. 1059 - 1064, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abo6499

Jordan NR; Campbell-Ward M; Vandersteen J; Colman N; Alting B; Gamage D; Cairns KM; Bell M; Altuna J; Pitcher BJ, 2023, 'Inferring interspecific killing of Red Fox by Dingo from wounds and inter-canine distance measures – and a call for more data', Australian Zoologist, 43, pp. 276 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2023.030

Nakagawa S; Lagisz M; Francis R; Tam J; Li X; Elphinstone A; Jordan NR; O’brien JK; Pitcher BJ; Van Sluys M; Sowmya A; Kingsford RT, 2023, 'Rapid literature mapping on the recent use of machine learning for wildlife imagery', Peer Community Journal, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.261

Claase MJ; Cherry MI; Apps PJ; McNutt JW; Hansen KW; Jordan NR, 2022, 'Interpack communication in African wild dogs at long-term shared marking sites', Animal Behaviour, 192, pp. 27 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.07.006

Abrahms B; Rafiq K; Jordan NR; McNutt JW, 2022, 'Long-term, climate-driven phenological shift in a tropical large carnivore', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121667119

Howell LG; Clulow J; Jordan NR; Beranek CT; Ryan SA; Roff A; Witt RR, 2022, 'Drone thermal imaging technology provides a cost-effective tool for landscape-scale monitoring of a cryptic forest-dwelling species across all population densities', Wildlife Research, 49, pp. 66 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR21034

Jordan NR; Golabek KA; Behr DM; Walker RH; Plimpton L; Lostrom S; Claase M; Van der Weyde LK; McNutt JW, 2022, 'Priority of access to food and its influence on social dynamics of an endangered carnivore', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03115-z

Cornelsen KA; Arkinstall CM; van Weenen J; Ross AK; Lawes JC; Moseby KE; Elphinstone A; Jordan NR, 2022, 'Telemetry tails: a practical method for attaching animal-borne devices to small vertebrates in the field', Wildlife Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr21107

Adams TSF; Mwezi I; Jordan NR, 2021, 'Panic at the disco: Solar-powered strobe light barriers reduce field incursion by African elephants Loxodonta africana in Chobe District, Botswana', ORYX, 55, pp. 739 - 746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605319001182

Rafiq K; Appleby RG; Edgar JP; Radford C; Smith BP; Jordan NR; Dexter CE; Jones DN; Blacker ARF; Cochrane M, 2021, 'WildWID: An open-source active RFID system for wildlife research', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, pp. 1580 - 1587, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13651

Alting BF; Bennitt E; Golabek KA; Pitcher BJ; McNutt JW; Wilson AM; Bates H; Jordan NR, 2021, 'The characteristics and consequences of African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) den site selection', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03047-8

Smith BP; Jaques NB; Appleby RG; Morris S; Jordan NR, 2021, 'Automated shepherds: Responses of captive dingoes to sound and an inflatable, moving effigy', Pacific Conservation Biology, 27, pp. 195 - 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PC20022

Smith BP; Appleby RG; Jordan NR, 2021, 'Co-existing with dingoes: Challenges and solutions to implementing non-lethal management', Australian Zoologist, 41, pp. 491 - 510, http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.024

Downey H; Amano T; Cadotte M; Cook CN; Cooke SJ; Haddaway NR; Jones JPG; Littlewood N; Walsh JC; Abrahams MI; Adum G; Akasaka M; Alves JA; Antwis RE; Arellano EC; Axmacher J; Barclay H; Batty L; Benítez-López A; Bennett JR; Berg MJ; Bertolino S; Biggs D; Bolam FC; Bray T; Brook BW; Bull JW; Burivalova Z; Cabeza M; Chauvenet ALM; Christie AP; Cole L; Cotton AJ; Cotton S; Cousins SAO; Craven D; Cresswell W; Cusack JJ; Dalrymple SE; Davies ZG; Diaz A; Dodd JA; Felton A; Fleishman E; Gardner CJ; Garside R; Ghoddousi A; Gilroy JJ; Gill DA; Gill JA; Glew L; Grainger MJ; Grass AA; Greshon S; Gundry J; Hart T; Hopkins CR; Howe C; Johnson A; Jones KW; Jordan NR; Kadoya T; Kerhoas D; Koricheva J; Lee TM; Lengyel S; Livingstone SW; Lyons A; McCabe G; Millett J; Strevens CM; Moolna A; Mossman HL; Mukherjee N; Muñoz-Sáez A; Negrões N; Norfolk O; Osawa T; Papworth S; Park KJ; Pellet J; Phillott AD; Plotnik JM; Priatna D; Ramos AG; Randall N; Richards RM; Ritchie EG; Roberts DL; Rocha R; Rodríguez JP; Sanderson R; Sasaki T; Savilaakso S; Sayer C; Sekercioglu C; Senzaki M; Smith G; Smith RJ; Soga M, 2021, 'Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management', Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12032

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