Corey J. A. Bradshaw

(MENAFN- The Conversation)

• Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University

Profile Articles

I am the Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology (globalecologyflinders) in the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University in Adelaide. I am also a Chief Investigator in the Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (ciehf), and a founding member of Future Child Health (futurechildhealth).

I have a broad range of research interests including population dynamics, extinction theory, palaeo-ecology, sustainable harvest, disease ecology, human demography, climate change impacts on biodiversity and human health, invasive species, and sustainable energy systems.

I am also the author of The Effective Scientist (t/SGz41b7Z0G), Killing the Koala & Poisoning the Prairie (amzn/1Ouey69), and Tropical Conservation Biology (wp/PhhT4-b).

Experience

• 2020–present Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology, Flinders University
• 2017–2020 Matthew Flinders Fellow in Global Ecology, Flinders University
• 2015–2017 Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change, University of Adelaide
• 2008–2014 Director of Ecological Modelling, University of Adelaide
• 2004–2008 Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University

Education

• 2005 Murdoch University, Postgraduate Certificate (Veterinary Conservation Medicine)
• 1999 University of Otago, PhD Zoology
• 1994 University of Alberta, MSc Zoology
• 1992 Université de Montréal, BSc Ecology

Publications

• 2025 Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation, Nature Ecology and Evolution
• 2025 A guide for developing demo-genetic models to simulate genetic rescue, Evolutionary Applications
• 2024 Differential predation patterns of free-ranging cats among continents, Ecography
• 2024 Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science, Biological Reviews
• 2024 Small populations of palaeolithic humans in Cyprus hunted endemic megafauna to extinction, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2024 Environmental conditions associated with initial northern expansion of anatomically modern humans, Nature Communications
• 2024 How climate change degrades child health: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Science of the Total Environment
• 2024 Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia's tropical savannahs, Nature Geoscience
• 2024 Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
• 2024 A Late Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics, Nature Communications
• 2024 Damage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity, Ecological Economics
• 2024 Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing, Frontiers in Public Health
• 2024 Stochastic population models to identify optimal and cost-effective harvest strategies for feral pig eradication, Ecosphere
• 2024 How to map biomes: quantitative comparison and review of biome-mapping methods, Ecological Monographs
• 2024 Demographic models predict end-Pleistocene arrival and rapid expansion of pre-agropastoralist humans in Cyprus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
• 2024 Projected loss of brown macroalgae and seagrasses with global environmental change, Nature Communications
• 2023 Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union, Environmental Sciences Europe
• 2023 Logistic-growth models measuring density feedback are sensitive to population declines, but not fluctuating carrying capacity, Ecology and Evolution
• 2023 Directionally supervised cellular automaton for the initial peopling of Sahul, Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2023 Lower infant mortality, lower household size, and more access to contraception reduce fertility in low- and middle-income nations, PLoS One
• 2023 Time-travelling pathogens and their risk to ecological communities, PLoS Computational Biology
• 2023 Estimating co-extinction threats in terrestrial ecosystems, Global Change Biology
• 2023 Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions, BioScience
• 2023 Predicting predator-prey interactions in terrestrial endotherms using random forest, Ecography
• 2022 Dismantling the poachernomics of the illegal wildlife trade, Biological Conservation
• 2022 Co-extinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land-use change, Science Advances
• 2022 Sahul's megafauna species were vulnerable to plant-community changes due to their position in the trophic network, Ecography
• 2022 Zoonotic diseases and our troubled relationship with nature, American Journal of Health Promotion
• 2022 Principles for scientists working at the river science-policy interface, River Research and Applications
• 2021 Consequences of recreational hunting for biodiversity conservation and livelihoods, One Earth
• 2021 Predicting targets and costs for feral-cat reduction on large islands using stochastic population models, Conservation Science and Practice
• 2021 Detailed assessment of the reported economic costs of invasive species in Australia, NeoBiota
• 2021 Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul, Nature Communications
• 2021 Natural and anthropogenic climate variability shape assemblages of range-extending coral-reef fishes, Journal of Biogeography
• 2021 High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide, Nature
• 2021 Opposing life stage-specific effects of ocean warming at source and sink populations of range-shifting coral-reef fishes, Journal of Animal Ecology
• 2021 Landscape rules predict optimal super-highways for the first peopling of Sahul, Nature Human Behaviour
• 2021 Relative demographic susceptibility does not explain the extinction chronology of Sahul's megafauna, eLife
• 2021 Predicting potential future reduction in shark bites on people, Royal Society Open Science
• 2021 Manipulating water for amphibian conservation, Conservation Biology
• 2021 Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future, Frontiers in Conservation Science
• 2020 Dietary generalism accelerates arrival and persistence of coral-reef fishes in their novel ranges under climate change, Global Change Biology
• 2020 Informing CITES Parties: strengthening science-based decision-making when listing marine species, Fish and Fisheries
• 2020 Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial, Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2020 Grand challenges in global biodiversity threats, Frontiers in Conservation Science
• 2020 Combining agent-based, trait-based and demographic approaches to model coral-community dynamics, eLife
• 2020 Processes controlling programmed cell death of root velamen radicum in an epiphytic orchid, Annals of Botany
• 2020 Variation in stem xylem traits is related to differentiation of upper limits of tree species along an elevational gradient, Forests
• 2019 Increased population size of fish in a lowland river following restoration of structural habitat, Ecological Applications
• 2019 Socio-economic predictors of environmental performance among African nations, Scientific Reports
• 2019 Climate-driven shifts in the distribution of koala browse species from the Last Interglacial to the near future, Ecography
• 2019 Comparative population genomics confirms little population structure in two commercially targeted carcharhinid sharks, Marine Biology
• 2019 Climate-human interaction associated with southeast Australian megafauna-extinction patterns, Nature Communications
• 2019 Testing the socio-economic and environmental determinants of better child-health outcomes in Africa: a cross-sectional study among nations, BMJ Open
• 2019 Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul, Nature Ecology and Evolution
• 2019 Early human settlement of Sahul was not an accident, Scientific Reports
• 2019 Statistical language backs conservatism in climate-change assessments, BioScience
• 2019 Opportunities to improve the future of South Australia's terrestrial biodiversity, Rethinking Ecology
• 2019 FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul, Scientific Data
• 2018 Revised European renewable-energy policies erode nature protection, Nature Ecology and Evolution
• 2018 Predicting sustainable shark harvests when stock assessments are lacking, ICES Journal of Marine Science
• 2018 Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change, Scientific Reports
• 2018 High-quality fossil dates support a synchronous, late-Holocene extinction of devils and thylacines in mainland Australia, Biology Letters
• 2018 Gender bias when assessing recommended ecology articles, Rethinking Ecology
• 2018 The Effective Scientist. A Handy Guide to an Academic Career, Cambridge University Press
• 2018 Effectiveness of five personal shark-bite deterrents for surfers, PeerJ
• 2018 Distribution models predict large contractions in habitat-forming seaweeds in response to ocean warming, Diversity and Distributions
• 2018 Evidence of sensory-driven behaviour in the Ediacaran organism Parvancorina: implications and autecological interpretations, Gondwana Research
• 2018 Previous exposure to myxomatosis reduces survival of European rabbits during outbreaks of rabbit haemorrhagic disease for biological control, Journal of Applied Ecology
• 2018 Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning, Routledge
• 2017 Species decline under nitrogen fertilization reduces community-level resistance to fungal diseases, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2017 100 articles every ecologist should read, Nature Ecology and Evolution
• 2017 Future extinction risk for wetland plants is higher from individual patch loss than total area reduction, Biological Conservation
• 2017 Niche constraints and dispersal-limited competition together assemble wetland plant communities, Journal of Vegetation Science
• 2017 Highly localized replenishment of coral reef fish populations near nursery habitats, Marine Ecology Progress Series
• 2017 Burden of proof: a comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
• 2016 Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges, Nature Communications
• 2016 Where to dig for fossils: combining climate-envelope, taphonomy and discovery models, PLoS One
• 2016 Warming and fertilization alter the dilution effect of host diversity on disease severity, Ecology
• 2016 An efficient protocol for the global sensitivity analysis of stochastic ecological models, Ecosphere
• 2016 What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2016 Implications of Australia's population policy for future greenhouse-gas emissions targets, Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies
• 2016 How to rank journals, PLoS One
• 2016 Massive yet grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects, Nature Communications
• 2016 Vertebral chemistry demonstrates habitat use and population structure of bronze whaler sharks, Marine Ecology Progress Series
• 2016 A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates, Scientific Data
• 2016 Diversity patterns of seasonal wetland plant communities mainly driven by rare terrestrial species, Biodiversity and Conservation
• 2016 Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation, Science Advances
• 2016 Banning trophy hunting will exacerbate biodiversity loss, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• 2016 Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia, Nature Communications
• 2015 Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover, Science
• 2015 National emphasis on high-level protection reduces risk of biodiversity decline in tropical forest reserves, Biological Conservation
• 2015 Ecological and economic benefits to cattle rangelands of restoring an apex predator, Journal of Applied Ecology
• 2015 Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation, Conservation Biology
• 2015 Global estimates of boreal forest carbon stocks and flux, Global and Planetary Change
• 2015 Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie: Australia, America, and the Environment, Chicago University Press
• 2015 Global zero-carbon energy pathways using viable mixes of nuclear and renewables, Applied Energy
• 2015 Obliquity-driven expansion of North Atlantic sea ice during the last glacial, Geophysical Research Letters
• 2014 Predicting current and future global distributions of whale sharks, Global Change Biology
• 2014 Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA
• 2014 Strong but opposing β-diversity-stability relationships in coral reef fish communities, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2014 Genetics in conservation management: revised recommendations for the 50/500 rules, Red List criteria and population viability analyses, Biological Conservation
• 2014 Predictors of contraction and expansion of area of occupancy for British birds, Proceedings of the Royal Society B
• 2014 Nuclear power can reduce emissions and maintain a strong economy: rating Australia's optimal future electricity-generation mix by technologies and policies, Applied Energy
• 2014 An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator-prey interactions in Holocene Australia, Ecology
• 2013 Conservation management and sustainable harvest quotas are sensitive to choice of climate modelling approach for two marine gastropods, Diversity and Distributions
• 2013 No need for disease: testing extinction hypotheses for the thylacine using multi-species metamodels, Journal of Animal Ecology
• 2013 Past human influences alter future range estimates: advancing the predictive capacity of species distribution models, Global Change Biology
• 2013 Near-complete extinction of native small mammal fauna 25 years following forest fragmentation, Science
• 2013 Brave new green world – consequences of a carbon economy for the conservation of Australian biodiversity, Biological Conservation
• 2012 iREDD hedges against avoided deforestation's unholy trinity of leakage, permanence and additionality, Conservation Letters
• 2012 Little left to lose: deforestation and forest degradation in Australia since European colonisation, Journal of Plant Ecology
• 2012 Novel coupling of individual-based epidemiological and demographic models predicts realistic dynamics of tuberculosis in alien buffalo, Journal of Applied Ecology
• 2012 Robust estimates of extinction time in the geological record, Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2012 Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas, Nature
• 2011 Seaweed communities in retreat from ocean warming, Current Biology
• 2011 Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity, Nature
• 2011 Relative need for conservation assessment of vascular plant species among ecoregions, Journal of Biogeography
• 2010 Reef size and isolation determine the temporal stability of coral reef fish populations, Ecology
• 2010 Mechanisms driving change: altered species interactions and ecosystem functions from global warming, Journal of Animal Ecology
• 2010 Evaluating the relative environmental impact of countries, PLoS One
• 2009 Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinction, Advances in Marine Biology
• 2009 Urgent preservation of boreal carbon stocks and biodiversity, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• 2009 Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in progress, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• 2008 Synergies among extinction drivers under global change, Trends in Ecology and Evolution
• 2008 Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life-history attributes, Journal of Ecology
• 2007 Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world, Global Change Biology
• 2007 Minimum viable population size: a meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates, Biological Conservation
• 2007 Tropical Conservation Biology, Blackwell

Grants and Contracts

• 2024 Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2021 Designing successful genetic-rescue approaches for threatened species Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2021 Citizen Science Passport to Recovery Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Commonwealth Citizen Science Grants
• 2017 Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2016 Do native invasions challenge Australian fisheries species? Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2013 Generalised methods for testing extinction dynamics across geological, near and modern time scales Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2012 Seascape genetics for shark management: an innovation in sustainable fisheries modelling Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2012 Meta-modelling of ecological, evolutionary and climatic systems dynamics Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2012 Identifying cost-effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in southern Australia Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2011 Developing best-practice approaches for restoring forest ecosystems that are resilient to climate change Role: Chief Investigator Funding Source: Australian Research Council
• 2011 Solving the problems of estimating extinction rates in recent and geological time Role: Future Fellow III Funding Source: Australian Research Council

Research Areas

• Ecological Applications (0501)
• Ecological Impacts Of Climate Change (050101)
• Invasive Species Ecology (050103)
• Ecology (0602)
• Palaeoecology (060206)
• Marine And Estuarine Ecology (Incl. Marine Ichthyology) (060205)
• Population Ecology (060207)
• Terrestrial Ecology (060208)
• Environmental Management (050205)
• Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified (059999)
• Statistics (0104)
• Optimisation (010303)

Honours

2023 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Leadership; 2021 Reuters Hot List of Top Climate Scientists; 2021 top 15.9% of top 2% citations of all scientists across all fields; 2020-21 Australian Research Council College of Experts; 2017 Verco Medal, R Soc SA; 2012 Research Excellence Award, Univ Adelaide; 2011 ARC Future Fellow III; 2010 Australian Ecology Research Award, Ecol Soc Aust; 2010 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year; 2009 HG Andrewartha Medal, R Soc SA

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