Hugh Possingham

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Hugh Phillip Possingham (born July 21, 1962 in Adelaide , Australia ) is an Australian ecologist . He holds an ARC Laureate Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Queensland . He is best known for his work in Conservation Biology and is currently Director of the Australian Research Council Center 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 on biodiversity hotspots and biodiversity issues. He is the co-author of The Brigalow Declaration with Barry Traill , which was led by Queensland Prime Minister Peter Beattie to end the deforestation in Queensland. "Land clearance" in Queensland destroyed 500,000 hectares of natural vegetation annually and was responsible for ten percent of Australia's emissions of climate-affecting gases.

Possigham won the Australian Mathematical Society Medal, the Fenner Medal for plant and animal biology from the Australian Academy of Science, and the Eureka Prizes for Environmental Research in 1999 and 2009 . One of the responsible editors is Hugh Possingham u. a. with William J. Sutherland responsible for the Ecological Letters published by ESA . In 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

bibliography

(subjective selection of over 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, SD 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.
  • Prioritizing global conservation efforts. Wilson KA, McBride M, Bode M & Possingham HP. Nature (2006) 440: 337-340.

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Possingham, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Possingham, Hugh Phillip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian ecologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide