Visiting Fellow
Evolutionary ecology, conservation biology
Phone: +61 2 5842 2192
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: caroline.blackmore@anu.edu.au

After attaining a BA in English Literature and Psychology and working for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra and Washington DC, Caroline completed a Graduate Diploma in Science with Distinction and Master of Philosophy in Ecology, Evolution and Systematics at the ANU School of Botany and Zoology. In 2007 she completed a PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Science at the ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, studying the breeding biology and behaviour of the grey-crowned babbler, a declining woodland bird.

Professional Activities

Caroline’s research interests lie primarily in the behavioural ecology of vertebrates and the implications of animal behaviour and biology for species conservation.

Selected Publications

Cockburn, A., Dalziell, A. H., Blackmore, C. J., Double, M. C., Kokko, H., Osmond, H. L., Beck, N. R., Head, M. L, and Wells, K. (in press). Superb fairy-wren males aggregate into hidden leks to solicit extra-group fertilisations before dawn. Behavioral Ecology.

Blackmore, C. J. and Heinsohn, R. (2008). Variable mating strategies and incest avoidance in cooperatively breeding grey-crowned babblers. Animal Behaviour, 75, 63-70.

Gardner, J. L. Marsack, P. R. & Blackmore, C. J. (2008). Timing and sequence of moult relative to breeding in the speckled warbler, Chthonicola sagittata. Emu, 108, 90-96.

Blackmore, C. J. and Heinsohn, R. (2007). Reproductive success and helper effects in the cooperatively breeding grey-crowned babbler Pomatostomus temporalis. Journal of Zoology 273, 326-332.

Blackmore, C. J., Adcock, G. J., Ebert, D. and Heinsohn, R. (2006). Microsatellite loci for population and behavioural studies of grey-crowned babblers (Pomatostomus temporalis: Aves). Molecular Ecology Notes 6, 412-414.