Associate Professor Sarah Bekessy has been teaching and conducting research in environmental studies at RMIT University since 2004.
Using her background in conservation biology and more recent experience in the social sciences, Sarah has established a successful research team that seeks to engage in high impact, interdisciplinary and collaborative ...
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Associate Professor Jane Elith is a Senior Lecturer in the School of BioSciences at the University of Melbourne. She specialises in species distribution models, statistical models that describe relationships between the occurrence or abundance of species and the environment. Jane has made outstanding original academic contributions to species model ...
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My research focuses on understanding the patterns and processes shaping biodiversity of native and invasive species and their implications for conservation and environmental decisions in a changing world. I focus on these main directions:
(1) Biodiversity and conservation in human-dominated landscapes: This includes studies on both native and alie ...
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Jonathan is an applied ecologist working at the interface between ecology, social science and economics to improve and better understand conservation decision-making.
He has a particular interest in understanding how spatial processes drive biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the implications of this for decision-making in conservation.
Jona ...
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I am an ecologist working mainly with plants.
My research focusses on gathering and organising knowledge for ecological management of rural landscapes, on generalising ecological knowledge so as to facilitate availability of knowledge, and interactions between plants and animals.
I aim to bridge the gap between field ecology and modelling. Recent ...
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