By Dr Rebecca Sarah West

Book Chapters

Read J; Copley P; Ward M; Dagg E; Olds L; Taggart D; West R, 2018, 'Bringing back warru: return of the black-footed rock-wallaby to the APY Lands', in Garnett S; Latch P; Lindenmayer D; Woinarksi J (ed.), Recovering Australian Threatened Species, CSIRO Publishing, pp. 237 - 248

Journal articles

Aylen O; Moseby K; West R; Pedler R; McGregor H; Leary T; Cairns KM, 2026, 'DNA metabarcoding improves detection of rare and volant prey in the diet of feral cats (Felis catus)', Wildlife Research, 53, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR26026

Read J; Olds L; Backhouse B; Copley P; Eldridge M; Hamnett P; Mills O; Nyaningu G; Hartvigsen-Power C; -Silva CG; West R, 2026, 'Taking Responsibility for Confined Threatened Species Populations', Ecological Management and Restoration, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emr.70045

Woinarski JCZ; Legge SM; Moseby K; Burbidge AA; Carthey AJR; Dickman CR; Doherty TS; Ferris J; Fisher DO; Hollanders M; Hradsky BA; Johnson CN; Jolly CJ; Kanowski J; Letnic M; Mason RT; McGregor H; Murphy BP; Pedler R; Read JL; Rendall AR; Stobo-Wilson A; Webb J; Webber BL; West R; Ritchie EG, 2026, 'Investigating the Causes of an Extinction Catastrophe: Controlling Introduced Predators Remains Essential for Conserving Australia’s Mammals', Bioscience, 76, pp. 294 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf204

Rudder MC; West R; Pedler R, 2026, 'Movement and Degradation of Meat Baits by Birds and Ants in an Arid Australian Landscape', Ecological Management and Restoration, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emr.70028

Aylen O; West R; Leary T; Slavich E; Hotham D; Moseby K, 2025, 'Weak evidence of a halo effect for bats at fenced conservation reserves during La Niña conditions', Global Ecology and Conservation, 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2025.e03932

Cullen D; Kingsford R; Bino G; West R; Letnic M; Pedler R, 2025, 'Bucking the trend - recovery from near continent-wide extinction by a marsupial micro-predator during drought', Biological Conservation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111411

Stewart J; de Lima NM; Eldridge DJ; West R; Kingsford RT, 2025, 'Restoring aboveground trophic diversity contributes to belowground microbial diversity in drylands', Biological Conservation, 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111056

Read JL; West R; Nyaningu G; Rangers W; Mills O; Phillips BL, 2025, 'Adaptive management of a remote threatened-species population on Aboriginal lands', WILDLIFE RESEARCH, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR24050

Magro J; Pedler R; Read J; West R, 2024, 'Determining the impacts of conservation fencing on woma pythons (Aspidites ramsayi)', Wildlife Research, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr24163

Pedler R; Read JL; Moseby K; Hunt TJ; Lynch CE; Cullen DB; Coulter B; Kingsford RT; West RS, 2024, 'Operational field trialling of Felixer™ grooming traps for the control of feral cats in the Strzelecki Desert, Australia', Wildlife Research, 51, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR24021

Francis RJ; Kingsford RT; Moseby K; Read J; Pedler R; Fisher A; McCann J; West R, 2024, 'Tracking landscape scale vegetation change in the arid zone by integrating ground, drone and satellite data', Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 10, pp. 374 - 387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.375

Moro D; West R; Lohr C; Wongawol R; Morgan V, 2024, 'Partnering and engaging with Traditional Owners in conservation translocations', Wildlife Research, 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr24053

Coulter B; West RS; Kingsford RT; Moseby KE, 2023, 'The influence of drought, precipitation and fossorial mammal reintroduction on the density of fossorial arthropods and their burrows in arid Australia', Austral Ecology, 48, pp. 1252 - 1273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13348

Moseby K; Van der Weyde L; Letnic M; Blumstein DT; West R; Bannister H, 2023, 'Addressing prey naivety in native mammals by accelerating selection for antipredator traits', Ecological Applications, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.2780

Gorta SBZ; Callaghan CT; Pedler RD; Read JL; West RS; Kingsford RT, 2023, 'Habitat associations of dryland avian communities during an extended dry period', Austral Ecology, 48, pp. 56 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.13251

West R; Moseby K; Read J; Pedler R, 2023, 'Release protocols to address hyperdispersal in a novel translocation of a carnivorous marsupial', Australian Mammalogy, 45, pp. 181 - 191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AM22018

Hunt T; Pedler R; West R, 2023, 'Further records and breeding of the Eyrean Grasswren Amytornis goyderi in New South Wales', Australian Field Ornithology, 40, pp. 20 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.20938/afo40020033

Pedler R; Read J; Moseby K; Kingsford R; West R, 2021, 'Proactive management of kangaroos for conservation and ecosystem restoration – Wild Deserts, Sturt National Park, NSW', Ecological Management and Restoration, 22, pp. 90 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/emr.12456

Moseby KE; Hodgens P; Peacock D; Mooney P; Brandle R; Lynch C; West R; Young CM; Bannister H; Copley P; Jensen MA, 2021, 'Intensive monitoring, the key to identifying cat predation as a major threat to native carnivore (Dasyurus geoffroii) reintroduction', Biodiversity and Conservation, 30, pp. 1547 - 1571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02157-z

White LC; Thomson VA; West R; Ruykys L; Ottewell K; Kanowski J; Moseby KE; Byrne M; Donnellan SC; Copley P; Austin JJ, 2020, 'Genetic monitoring of the greater stick-nest rat meta-population for strategic supplementation planning', Conservation Genetics, 21, pp. 941 - 956, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01299-x

Kingsford R; West R; Pedler R; Keith D; Moseby K; read J; Letnic M; Leggett K; Ryall S, 2020, 'Strategic Adaptive Management planning - restoring a desert ecosystem by managing introduced species and native herbivores and reintroducing mammals', Conservation Science and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/csp2.268

West RS; Tilley L; Moseby KE, 2020, 'A trial reintroduction of the western quoll to a fenced conservation reserve: Implications of returning native predators', Australian Mammalogy, 42, pp. 257 - 265, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AM19041

Steindler LA; Blumstein DT; West R; Moseby KE; Letnic M, 2020, 'Exposure to a novel predator induces visual predator recognition by naïve prey', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-020-02884-3

Moseby K; Letnic M; Blumstein D; West R, 2018, 'Understanding predator densities for successful co-existence of alien predators and threatened prey', Austral Ecology, 44, pp. 409 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12697

West R; Blumstein D; Letnic M; Moseby K, 2018, 'Searching for an effective pre-release screening tool for translocations: can trap temperament predict behaviour and survival in the wild?', Biodiversity and Conservation

Moseby K; Blumstein D; Letnic M; West R, 2018, 'Choice or opportunity: are post-release social groupings influenced by familiarity or reintroduction protocols?', Oryx

Ireland L; Zabek M; Galindez-Silva C; Weir S; West RS; Olds L; Backhouse B; Copley P; Read J, 2018, 'More than just the animals: opportunities and costs of reintroducing threatened black-footed rock-wallabies to remote Indigenous land', Pacific Conservation Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PC17059

Pedler R; West R; Read J; Moseby K; Letnic MI; Keith D; Leggett K; Ryall S; Kingsford R; Leggett K, 2018, 'Conservation challenges and benefits of multispecies reintroductions to a national park – a case study from New South Wales, Australia', Pacific Conservation Biology, 24, pp. 397 - 408, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PC17058

Steindler L; Blumstein D; West R; Moseby K; Letnic MI, 2018, 'Discrimination of introduced predators by ontogenetically naïve prey scales with duration of shared evolutionary history', Animal Behaviour, 137, pp. 133 - 139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.01.013

West R; Potter S; Taggart D; Eldridge MDB, 2018, 'Looking back to go forward: genetics informs future management of captive and reintroduced populations of the black-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale lateralis', Conservation Genetics, 19, pp. 235 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-017-1030-y

Moseby KE; Letnic M; Blumstein DT; West R, 2018, 'Designer prey: Can controlled predation accelerate selection for anti-predator traits in naïve populations?', Biological Conservation, 217, pp. 213 - 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.09.022

West R; Letnic MI; Blumstein D; Moseby K, 2017, 'Predator exposure improves anti-predator responses in a threatened mammal', Journal of Applied Ecology, 55, pp. 147 - 156, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12947

West R; Read JL; Ward MJ; Foster WK; Taggart DA, 2017, 'Monitoring for adaptive management in a trial reintroduction of the black-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale lateralis', ORYX, 51, pp. 554 - 563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605315001490

West R; Ward MJ; Foster WK; Taggart DA, 2017, 'Testing the potential for supplementary water to support the recovery and reintroduction of the black-footed rock-wallaby', Wildlife Research, 44, pp. 269 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WR16181

Atkins R; Blumstein DT; Moseby K; West R; Letnic MI, 2016, 'Deep evolutionary experience explains mammalian responses to predators', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70, pp. 1755 - 1763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2181-4

Hurst JL; West RS, 2010, 'Taming anxiety in laboratory mice', Nature Methods, 7, pp. 825 - 826, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1500

Reports

West R; Moseby K; Read J; Pedler R, 2025, Reintroduction of locally extinct mammals to Wild Deserts (Sturt National Park) – report to satisfy condition j) and k) of NPWS Scientific Licence SL102432

Lynch C; Pedler R; West R, 2025, Wild Deserts Ecological Health and Monitoring Framework Annual Report 2024

West R; Lynch C, 2024, Reintroduction of locally extinct mammals to Wild Deserts (Sturt National Park) – report to satisfy condition j) and k) of NPWS Scientific Licence SL102432

Lynch C; Pedler R; West R, 2024, Wild Deserts Ecological Health and Monitoring Framework Annual Report 2023

Catherine L; Moseby K; Read J; Pedler R; West R, 2024, Translocation proposal for the burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur) to Sturt National Park, New South Wales

West R; Pedler R; Moseby K; Read J; Lynch C, 2024, Translocation proposal for the western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) to Sturt National Park, New South Wales

West R; Coulter B, 2023, Reintroduction of locally extinct mammals to Wild Deserts (Sturt National Park) – report to satisfy condition r) of SL102432

Lynch C; Pedler R; West R, 2023, Wild Deserts Ecological Health and Monitoring Framework Annual Report 2022

West R; Pedler R; Moseby K; Read J; Lynch C, 2023, Translocation proposal for the greater stick-nest rat (Leporillus conditor) to Sturt National Park, New South Wales

West R; Lynch C; Pedler R, 2022, Wild Deserts Ecological Health and Monitoring Framework Annual Report 2021

West R; Pedler R; Moseby K; Read J; Lynch C, 2022, Translocation proposal for the golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus) to Sturt National Park, New South Wales

West R; Pedler R, 2021, Wild Deserts Ecological Health and Monitoring Framework Annual Report 2020

West R; Moseby K; Read J; Pedler R, 2021, Translocation proposal for the Shark Bay bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) to Sturt National Park, New South Wales

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