Dr. Luis-Barnardo Vázquez will be working with our centre on problems surrounding Urban Ecology and Conservation Biology in a collaborative manner under Dr. Richard Fuller's supervision and invitation. This will provide an additional collaborative network between the Department of Agriculture, Society and Environment in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Buntarou (Bun) Kusumoto is a Project Assistant Professor at the Risk Analysis Research Center in Japan who will be visiting the University of Queensland working on a project with the University of Ryukyus. Bun will be working with Dr. Maria Beger during this visit to Australia.
Mr Luca Appolloni will visit our research centre at the University of Queensland from May-July inclusive in 2015 to work on his research project. He will be learning to use Marxan – software that our group created, and applying it to a marine zoning plan for the Gulf of Naples. Further, he will be able to attend Hugh Possingham's masters class on decision science for conservation which runs in May and June.
Camille will work with Dr. Hawthorne Beyer on a collaborative project aligned with ongoing research with threatened species conservation, in particular the conservation status of koalas in Queensland. This project will involve valuable skills in population trends, mapping threats, and evaluating mitigation actions
Aurore Maureaud of Agrocampus Ouest will work under Dr. Maria Beger's supervision during her internship from the 10th September 2014 to 13th February 2015 at the University of Queensland. The work will involve two components, as follows: 1. Building a database and procedure to assess coral reef health under climate change 2. Modeling the dynamics of coral reef health in time, using examples from the Great Barrier Reef, the Pacific and in the Coral Triangle. While these projects have been preselected and discussed with the intern, there might be scope for slight variations in the context and the species used. The main theme of all this work will be ecological modeling of marine biodiversity patterns to solve conservation problems.
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Bilbao, Spain. 6 years of professional experience in different lines of marine research applied to Marine Spatial Planning (MSP); Marine Ecosystem Services Mapping; Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM); Biological Valuation (BV) and Ecosystem Services Valuation (ESV). Her current research interests are focused on ecosystem services mapping, modeling and evaluation; as well as in marine spatial planning management, marine socio-economics’, marine governance and the implementation of marine European directives (MSFD). Her work has also succeeded in publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Marta got a Postdoctoral Research Fellow grant from the Basque Government and Ikerbasque and will be staying at the A ...
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Joao will be working with Dr. Carissa Klein in order to develop collaborative networks while working on a workplan entitled Systematic Conservation Planning in the Abrolhos Bank, Brazil. During Joao's time at UQ he will be working toward development of a conservation prioritization exercise that will help the ongoing process of selection of new marine protected ares in the study area, as well as to compare different spatial planning approaches and algorithms.
Dr. Akasaka will visit the Univeristy of Queensland while on Sabatical leave from Tokyo University of Agricutlutre and Technology where he currently holds the position of Senior Assistant Professor. While visiting the Centre for Biodiviersity and Conservation (CBCS), Dr. Akasaka will be collaborating together with Dr. Richard Fuller and his team on a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Decisions (CEED) project related to Macroecology and utilising aspects of biodiviersty conservation.
I have been thinking on possible activities during my one-month visit to the UQ. These are initial interests to begin discussing on these issues but I am open to any ideas you may have for collaboration. The activities I am interested in include: - To visit study areas (with the focus on: habitats, species, sampling design, field methods), especially to conservation and production forests - To know the type of collaboration you, as researchers, have with land managers and policy makers - To know the tools you use for conservation decision and planning - To discuss on common top ...
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Visiting with Dr. Morena Mills on exchange with UQ through the Science Without Borders program.
Visiting with Dr. Hawthorn Beyer
Visiting with Dr Morena Mills
Visiting with Dr. Hawthorne Beyer
Visiting with Dr. Hawthorne Beyer
Visiting with Dr. Hawthorne Beyer
Visiting with Dr. Hawthorne Beyer
Ecological restoration is increasingly studied and applied worldwide, yet there is little consensus on general guidelines, thresholds and applicability that could guide restoration practice. Two critical questions are: when and where restoration really is the best management option? Here I propose to address both questions in two different studies using global and regional analyses. The first is based on a meta-analysis using data on restoration success from 327 studies worldwide, together with forest maps for each one of the studies. This is the largest and most comprehensive database built to date to investigate: i) the effects of landscape and local scale on restoration success, ii) potential thresholds for restoration success, and iii) general knowledge on restoration success that coul ...
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Biological invasions are considered as one of the five most important direct drivers of biodiversity loss. Alien species may become invasive and displace native species, cause the loss of native genotypes, modify habitats, change community structure, affect food-web properties and ecosystem processes, impede the provision of ecosystem services, impact human health, and cause substanial economic losses. While incorporation of actions to mitigate invasive species have been proposed in terrestrial conservation planning, this not the case for the marine realm. Currently the Mediterranean Sea is the most impacted sea int he world hosting more than 900 alien species. The predominant pathway is the Canal of Suez which acts as a corridor for the movement of thermophilic species of Indo-Pacific ori ...
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