Professor Hugh Possingham, DPhil, Oxford    V-C Senior Research Fellow

	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

	Links
	Spatial Ecology Lab (SEL), The Ecology Centre

	Keywords
	Science and Technology: Mathematics, Science and Technology: Tropical Biology, Science and Technology: Plant Sciences, Science and Technology: Marine and Ocean Sciences, Science and Technology: Marine Zoology, Science and Technology: Marine Sciences Planning/Policy, Science and Technology: Marine Environment, Science and Technology: Marine Biology, Science and Technology: Environmental Studies, Science and Technology: Environmental Management, Science and Technology: Environmental Geography, Science and Technology: Environmental Effects, Science and Technology: Environmental Conservation, Science and Technology: Environmental Biology, Science and Technology: Entomology, Science and Technology: Endangered Species, Science and Technology: Ecosystem(s), Science and Technology: Biological Sciences, Science and Technology: Biodiversity, Science and Technology: Ocean Modeling, Science and Technology: Biological Modeling, Science and Technology: Ecology, Geographical: Ecological Zones