Corey J. A. Bradshaw

Experience

• 2020–present
  Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology, Flinders University
• 2017–2020
  Matthew Flinders Fellow in Global Ecology, Flinders University
• 2015–2017
  Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, University of Adelaide
• 2008–2014
  Director of Ecological Modelling, University of Adelaide
• 2004–2008
  Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University

Education

• 2005 
  Murdoch University, Postgraduate Certificate (Veterinary Conservation Medicine)
• 1999 
  University of Otago, PhD Zoology
• 1994 
  University of Alberta, MSc Zoology
• 1992 
  Université de Montréal, BSc Ecology

Publications

• 2016
  Massive yet grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects, Nature Communications
• 2016
  How to rank journals, PLoS One
• 2016
  Implications of Australia’s population policy for future greenhouse-gas emissions targets, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies
• 2016
  What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2016
  An efficient protocol for the global sensitivity analysis of stochastic ecological models, Ecosphere
• 2016
  Banning trophy hunting will exacerbate biodiversity loss, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• 2016
  Warming and fertilization alter the dilution effect of host diversity on disease severity, Ecology
• 2016
  Where to dig for fossils: combining climate-envelope, taphonomy and discovery models, PLoS One
• 2016
  Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges, Nature Communications
• 2016
  Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia, Nature Communications
• 2015
  Ecological and economic benefits to cattle rangelands of restoring an apex predator, Journal of Applied Ecology
• 2015
  Global zero-carbon energy pathways using viable mixes of nuclear and renewables, Applied Energy
• 2015
  Global estimates of boreal forest carbon stocks and flux, Global and Planetary Change
• 2015
  National emphasis on high-level protection reduces risk of biodiversity decline in tropical forest reserves, Biological Conservation
• 2015
  Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover, Science
• 2015
  Obliquity-driven expansion of North Atlantic sea ice during the last glacial, Geophysical Research Letters
• 2015
  Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the Environment, Chicago University Press
• 2015
  Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation, Conservation Biology
• 2014
  An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator-prey interactions in Holocene Australia, Ecology
• 2014
  Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
• 2014
  Nuclear power can reduce emissions and maintain a strong economy: rating Australia's optimal future electricity-generation mix by technologies and policies, Applied Energy
• 2014
  Predictors of contraction and expansion of area of occupancy for British birds, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2014
  Genetics in conservation management: revised recommendations for the 50/500 rules, Red List criteria and population viability analyses, Biological Conservation
• 2014
  Strong but opposing β-diversity-stability relationships in coral reef fish communities, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2014
  Predicting current and future global distributions of whale sharks, Global Change Biology
• 2013
  No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels, Journal of Animal Ecology
• 2013
  Past human influences alter future range estimates: advancing the predictive capacity of species distribution models, Global Change Biology
• 2013
  Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna 25 years following forest fragmentation, Science
• 2013
  Brave new green world – consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity, Biological Conservation
• 2013
  Conservation management and sustainable harvest quotas are sensitive to choice of climate modelling approach for two marine gastropods, Diversity and Distributions
• 2012
  Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonisation, Journal of Plant Ecology
• 2012
  Robust estimates of extinction time in the geological record, Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2012
  iREDD hedges against avoided deforestation’s unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality, Conservation Letters
• 2012
  Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas, Nature
• 2012
  Novel coupling of individual-based epidemiological and demographic models predicts realistic dynamics of tuberculosis in alien buffalo, Journal of Applied Ecology
• 2011
  Relative need for conservation assessment of vascular plant species among ecoregions, Journal of Biogeography
• 2011
  Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity, Nature
• 2011
  Seaweed communities in retreat from ocean warming, Current Biology
• 2010
  Mechanisms driving change: altered species interactions and ecosystem functions from global warming, Journal of Animal Ecology
• 2010
  Reef size and isolation determine the temporal stability of coral reef fish populations, Ecology
• 2010
  Evaluating the relative environmental impact of countries, PLoS One
• 2009
  Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• 2009
  Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinction, Advances in Marine Biology
• 2009
  Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• 2008
  Synergies among extinction drivers under global change, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• 2008
  Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life-history attributes, Journal of Ecology
• 2007
  Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world, Global Change Biology
• 2007
  Minimum viable population size: a meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates, Biological Conservation
• 2007
  Tropical Conservation Biology, Blackwell

Grants and Contracts

• 2017
  Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2016
  Do native invasions challenge Australian fisheries species?

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2013
  Generalised methods for testing extinction dynamics across geological, near and modern time scales

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2012
  Meta-modelling of ecological, evolutionary and climatic systems dynamics

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2012
  Seascape genetics for shark management: an innovation in sustainable fisheries modelling

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2012
  Identifying cost-effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in southern Australia

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2011
  Developing best-practice approaches for restoring forest ecosystems that are resilient to climate change

  Role:

  Chief Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2011
  Solving the problems of estimating extinction rates in recent and geological time

  Role:

  Future Fellow III

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

Research Areas

• Ecological Applications (0501)
• Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change (050101)
• Invasive Species Ecology (050103)
• Ecology (0602)
• Palaeoecology (060206)
• Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) (060205)
• Population Ecology (060207)
• Terrestrial Ecology (060208)
• Environmental Management (050205)
• Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified (059999)
• Statistics (0104)
• Optimisation (010303)

Honours

2017 Verco Medal, R Soc SA; 2012 Research Excellence Award, Univ Adelaide; 2011 ARC Future Fellow III; 2010 Australian Ecology Research Award, Ecol Soc Aust; 2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year; 2009 HG Andrewartha Medal, R Soc SA; 2008 SA Young Tall Poppy Science Award