Hugh Possingham

Hugh Phillip Possingham ( born July 21, 1962 in Adelaide, Australia ) is an Australian ecologist. He holds an ARC Laureate Fellow Department of Mathematics, School of Integrative Biology at the University of Queensland and. He is best known for his work in Conservation Biology ( Conservation Biology ) and is currently Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and the National Environmental Research Hub for Environmental Decisions.

Possingham is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, which advises the Australian Parliament in matters of biodiversity hotspots and biodiversity. He is co- author of "The Brigalow Declaration" along with Barry Traill, which was led by the Queensland Premier Peter Beattie to finish the clearing in Queensland. " Country clearance" in Queensland destroyed 500,000 hectares of natural vegetation annually and was responsible for ten percent of Australia's emissions of climate-changing gases.

Possigham won the Australian Mathematical Society Medal, the. Fenner Medal for plant and animal biology of the Australian Academy of Science in 1999 and 2009, the Eureka Prizes for Environmental Research As one of the responsible editors Hugh Possingham is, inter alia, William J. Sutherland responsible for the published by the ESA Ecological Letters.

Bibliography

( subjective selection of his more than 400 peer reviewed articles )

  • Biodiversity - turning up the heat on hotspots. Possingham, HP and KA Wilson, Nature ( 2005) 436:919-920.
  • Recruitment dynamics in complex life cycles. Roughgarden, J., Gaines, S. D. and Possingham, HP, Science ( 1988) 241:1460-1466.
  • The distribution and abundance of resources Encountered by a forager. Possingham HP. The American Naturalist (1989 ) 133:42-60.
  • Spatial population dynamics of a marine organism with a complex life cycle. Possingham HP & Roughgarden J. Ecology 71:973-985.
  • Limits to the use of threatened species lists. Possingham HP. et al. (2002 ) Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17:503-507.
  • Prioritising global conservation efforts. Wilson KA, McBride M, Bode M & Possingham HP. Nature (2006) 440:337-340.
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