My publications and reports, each linked with accompanying PDFs, preprints, and/or news pieces. See my CV for full list of publications and see here for my Research Themes.
Written by Oliver C. Stringham
Using automated web scraping across 11 Australian e-commerce platforms between 2020 and 2023, we identified 3,822 plant species for sale and categorized them by regulatory, naturalisation, and native status, flagging emerging invasive species risks and the online platforms most in need of monitoring.
We map the countries and ecosystems of origin behind two decades of U.S. wildlife imports, revealing major gaps in global wildlife trade data and highlighting source regions facing the greatest biodiversity pressure from U.S. demand.
Rainbow Lorikeets are a popular Australian pet species that have also established invasive populations outside their native range. We test whether stable isotope analysis can identify recently escaped or released captive lorikeets within wild populations, informing management along different stages of the pet-release invasion pathway.
Wild-caught parrots are sometimes laundered into trade as captive-bred. Using a citizen-science campaign that collected thousands of feathers from wild and captive birds across South Australia, we show stable isotope analysis can distinguish captive from wild origin with up to 90% accuracy in galahs and 74% accuracy in other parrot species.
Using two decades of U.S. wildlife import records (2000–2022), we show that the United States traded over 21,000 species and 2.85 billion individuals, with more than half of individuals from most taxa sourced from the wild. The scale of legal trade far exceeds prior assessments, limiting decision-makers' ability to gauge its impact on species survival.