Publications
Endangered Tasmanian pardalotes
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Alves, F., Banks, S.C., Edworthy, M. et al. (2023) Using conservation genetics to prioritise management options for an endangered songbird. Heredity 130, 289–301. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00609-6. pdf
Edworthy, Langmore, N.E., and Heinsohn, R. (2018). Native fly parasites are a principle cause of mortality in an endangered Tasmanian songbird. Animal Conservation. doi.org/10.1111/acv.12444. pdf
Edworthy (2016). Avian hosts, prevalence, and larval life history of the screwworm fly Passeromyia longicornis (Muscidae: Diptera), in southeastern Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 64:100-106. pdf
Case, S.B.*, and Edworthy. (2016). First report of ‘mining’ as a feeding behaviour among Australian manna‐feeding birds. Ibis 158:407-415. pdf
Edworthy (2016). Competition and aggression for nest cavities between Striated Pardalotes and endangered Forty-spotted Pardalotes. The Condor 118:1-11. pdf
POPULAR ARTICLES
Edworthy, A., 2015. Conservation on the Fly. Australian Birdlife Magazine, June 2015 Issue. pdf
Edworthy, A., 2015. What’s Killing the Forty-spotted Pardalote? Tasmanian Geographic Magazine, Issue 31. (2016 People’s Choice Award winner)
MEDIA COVERAGE
News ABC “One of Australia’s most endangered birds facing threat from maggots” (Aug 2015). http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-21/endangered-bird-faces-new-threat/6735504
New Scientist “Rare Australian bird farms nourishing manna from trees” (Mar 2016). https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079457-rare-australian-bird-farms-nourishing-manna-from-trees/
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV “Rare bird, insect attack” (Aug 2015). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNNbYSVCUAM
ABC News AM radio “Cotton wool could save endangered Australian bird” (Aug 2015). http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2015/s4302953.htm
Cavity-nesting birds and forestry
Trzcinski, M. K., Cockle, K. L., Norris, A. R., Edworthy, M., Wiebe, K. L., & Martin, K. (2022). Woodpeckers and other excavators maintain the diversity of cavity‐nesting vertebrates. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(6), 1251-1265.
Wiebe, K., Cockle, K. L., Trzcinski, M. K., Edworthy, A. B., & Martin, K. (2020). Gaps and Runs in Nest Cavity Occupancy: Cavity" Destroyers" and" Cleaners" Affect Reuse by Secondary Cavity Nesting Vertebrates. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 205.
Cockle, K.L., M.K. Trzcinski, K.L. Wiebe, A.B. Edworthy, K. Martin. (2019). Lifetime productivity of tree cavities used by cavity‐nesting animals in temperate and subtropical forests. Ecological Applications. 29: e01916. pdf
Edworthy, A.B., Trzcynski, K., Cockle, K., Wiebe, K., Martin, K. (2018). Community and species-level patterns of tree cavity occupancy across cavity age. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:639-648.
Edworthy, A.B. and K. Martin. (2014). Long-term dynamics of the characteristics of tree cavities used for nesting by vertebrates. Forest Ecology and Management 334:122-128.
Edworthy, A.B. and K. Martin. (2013). Persistence of tree cavities used by cavity-nesting vertebrates declines in harvested forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:770-776.
Edworthy, A.B., K.L. Wiebe, and K. Martin. (2012). Survival analysis of a critical resource for cavity-nesting communities: patterns of tree cavity longevity. Ecological Applications 22:1733-1742.
Edworthy, A.B., M.C. Drever, and K. Martin. (2011). Woodpeckers increase in abundance but maintain fecundity in response to an outbreak of mountain pine bark beetles. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 203-210.
Biodiversity, farming, and disease
Smith, O. M., Olimpi, E. M., Navarro‐Gonzalez, N., Cornell, K. A., Frishkoff, L. O., Northfield, T. D., Bowles, T.M., Edworthy, M. ... & Karp, D. S. (2022). A trait‐based framework for predicting foodborne pathogen risk from wild birds. Ecological Applications, 32(2), e2523. pdf
Taylor, J. M., Smith, O. M., Edworthy, M., Kennedy, C. M., Latimer, C. E., Owen, J. P., ... & Snyder, W. E. (2022). Bird predation and landscape context shape arthropod communities on broccoli. Ornithological Applications, 124(2), duac005. pdf
Smith, O. M., Edworthy, M., Taylor, J. M., Jones, M. S., Tormanen, A., Kennedy, C. M., ... & Owen, J. P. (2020). Agricultural intensification heightens food safety risks posed by wild birds. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(11), 2246-2257.
Latimer, C. E., Smith, O. M., Taylor, J. M., Edworthy, A. B., Owen, J. P., Snyder, W. E., & Kennedy, C. M. (2020). Landscape context mediates the physiological stress response of birds to farmland diversification. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57:671–680.
Snails and movement ecology
Driscoll, D.A., S.C. Banks, P.S. Barton, K. Ikin, P. Lentini, D.B. Lindenmayer, A.L. Smith, L.E. Berry, E.L. Burns, A. Edworthy, and 12 other authors (2014). The Trajectory of Dispersal Research in Conservation Biology. Systematic Review. PLoS ONE 9(4): e95053.
Edworthy, A.B., K.M.M. Steensma, H.M. Zandberg, and P.L. Lilley. (2012). Dispersal, home range size, and habitat use of an endangered land snail, the Oregon forestsnail (Allogona townsendiana). Canadian Journal of Zoology 90:875-884. pdf