Griffith University

Adjunct Research Fellow, Environmental Futures Centre

Contact email: j.cousin@griffith.edu.au

Research Expertise

• Spatial and temporal ecology of birds
• Habitat selection and foraging ecology
• Urban ecology
• Australo-Papuan Robins

Current Projects

• Forecasting and managing biodiversity change: birds in an urbanising landscape.

Publications

• Catterall, C. P., Cousin, J. A., Piper, S., Johnson, G., (submitted), Long-term dynamics of bird diversity in forest and suburb: decay, turnover or homogenisation? Journal of Applied Ecology
• Cousin, J. A., (2009), Nest site selection by the Western Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria griseogularis) in Wandoo woodland, Western Australia, Corella 33: 30 - 34
• Cousin, J. A., Phillips, R., (2008), Habitat complexity explains species-specific occupancy but not species richness in a Western Australian woodland, Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 95 - 102
• Cousin, J. A., (2004), Pounce site characteristics of the Western Yellow Robin Eopsaltria griseogularis: The importance of assessing foraging microhabitat, Pacific Conservation Biology 10:21 - 27
• Cousin, J. A., (2004), Habitat selection of the Western Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria griseogularis) in a Wandoo Woodland, Western Australia, Emu 104: 229 – 234
• Cousin, J. A., (2004). The decline of the Western Yellow Robin. IN: Recher H., & Garnett P., (Eds.),  Environmental Issues in Western Australia. pp 100 - 101. Edith Cowan University: Perth
• Cousin, J. A., (2003), Australo-Papuan Robins. IN: Perrins, C. (Ed.), The New Encyclopedia of Birds. Pp 472 – 473. Andromeda Oxford Ltd: Abingdon, UK