Chercheurs

Sciences de la Vie / POSSINGHAM, HUGH

HPossingham

Position

Professor of Mathematics and Zoology. Director of the Ecology Centre at The University of Queensland, Australia.

Thèmes de recherche

Decision theory in conservation biology: reserve design, biodiversity management, and fire regime management. Population viability analysis (PVA). 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.

Prix et récompenses

1983 David Murray Scholarship
(for best student proceeding to honours at The University of Adelaide)
1984 Amir Hassan Abdi Prize
(for top Mathematics Honours student, The University of Adelaide)
1984 Rhodes Scholarship, Australia-at-large
1989 QEII Fellowship
1999 POL Eureka Prize for Environmental Research (with Dr David Lindenmayer)
2000 Inaugural Fenner Medal for Plant and Animal Science (Australian Academy of Science)
2001 Australian Mathematics Society Medal

Publications

Refereed International Journals :

McCarthy, M.A., Lindenmayer, D.B. and Possingham, H.P. 2001. Assessing spatial PVA models of arboreal marsupials using significance tests and bayesian statistics. Ecology. Biological Conservation, 98: 191-200

Lindenmeyer DB, McCarthy MA, Possingahm HP and Legge S. 2001. A simple landscape-scale test of a spatially explicit population model: patch occupancy in fragmented south-eastern Australian forests. Oikos 92: 445-458.

McDonnell M, Possingham HP, Ball I and Cousins E. Mathematical methods for spatially cohesive reserve design. Environmental Modelling and Assessment.

Leslie, H., Ruckelshaus, R., Ball, I. R., Andelman, S. and Possingham, H. P. 2001. Using siting algorithms in the design of marine reserve networks. Ecological Applications.

Allison GW, Gaines SD, Lubchenco J and Possingham HP. 2001. Taking the long view of marine reserves: catastrophes and an insurance factor. Ecological Applications.

Tenhumberg, B., Keller, M., Possingham, H.P. and Tyre, A. 2001. Resource aggregation at different scales: optimal foraging of Cotesia rubecula. The American Naturalist.

Tenhumberg, B., Keller, M.A., Possingham, H.P. and Tyre, A.J. 2001. Optimal patch-leaving behaviour: a case study using the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 683-691.

Tyre A.J., Possingham H.P. and Niejalke D.P. 2001. Detecting environmental impacts on metapopulations of mound spring invertebrates - Assessing an incidence function model. Environment International 27: 225-229.

McCarthy M.A., Possingham H.P., Day J.R. and Possingham H.P. 2001. Testing the accuracy of population viability analysis. Conservation Biology 15: 1030-1038.

Wilcox, C. and Possingham, H. P. 2002. Life history and the accuracy of diffusion estimates for persistence time (in press Ecological Applications).