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Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland

Research interests: mammal ecology and conservation, detecting and preventing extinction, life history evolution and sexual selection in mammals. http://academicportal.app.uq.edu.au/researchers/profiles/397/biography/

Co-chair of the Australian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group, IUCN Species Survival Commission.
Senior Editor Prisms: Extinction, Cambridge University Press.
Australian Mammal Taxonomy Consortium Steering Committee member.
Deputy Academic Director UQ Hidden Vale Research Station.

Some recent publications:

Legge, S et al. 2022. Estimating the conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: time-bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019-20 Australian megafires. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/geb.13473

Lavery, T.H., Posala, C.K., Tasker, E.M. & Fisher, D.O. 2020. Ecological generalism and resilience of tropical island mammals to logging: a 23 year test. Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15038

Bolam, F.C. et al. 2020. How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented? Conservation Letters. e12762 doi:10.1101/2020.02.11.943902

Experience

  • –present
    Future Fellow in mammal ecology and conservation, University of Queensland

Education

  • 1999 
    The University of Queensland, Ecology / Biology