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 Biography

Professor Hugh Possingham's research interests are in pure and applied population ecology: efficient reserve design and habitat reconstruction; optimal management of populations for conservation, pest control and harvesting; survey methods for detecting bird decline; and metapopulation dynamics of mound springs snails.

Professor Possingham is an Australian Professorial Fellow in Integrative Biology. He received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1987. His research projects are in the field of decision theory in conservation biology:

· Reserve design, biodiversity management and fire regime management
· Population viability analysis (PVA) - including the development of ALEX
· Pollination ecology
· Metapopulation dynamics
· Ecological economics
· Stochastic modelling
· Biodiversity and climate change
· Population dynamics of marine organisms
· Marine reserve design
· Marine population dynamics
· Avian community ecology
· Edge effects and fragmentation
· Landscape ecology
· Behavioural and population ecology of parasitoids

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