Professor Richard Hobbs
Email: richard.hobbs@uwa.edu.au

Biography

I am an ecologist, with experience in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe and United States. I grew up in Scotland and completed a BSc in Ecological Science at Edinburgh followed by an MA in Biology at the University of California Santa Barbara, on a Fulbright Scholarship. I completed my PhD at the University of Aberdeen, working on post-fire dynamics of heathland communities, supervised by Prof Charles Gimingham. After completing my PhD, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University 1982-84, working with Prof Hal Mooney on serpentine grassland dynamics. I joined CSIRO Division of Wildlife & Ecology in Western Australia in 1984 and worked on the dynamics of fragmented ecosystems in the Western Australian wheatbelt. I became Officer in Charge of the Western Australian laboratory in 1997. In 2000 I took up a Chair in Environmental Science at Murdoch University and was awarded an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship in 2006. I joined UWA in 2009.

Education

• 1976 : B.Sc. 1st Class Honours(Ecological Science) University of Edinburgh
• 1977 : M.A. (Biology) University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1982 : Ph.D.University of Aberdeen, Department of Botany

Key Research

My particular interests are in vegetation dynamics and management, fragmentation, invasive species, ecosystem restoration, conservation biology and landscape ecology. My current research focuses on setting and achieving realistic restoration goals in a rapidly changing world.

Major Research Interests

• Restoration ecology
• Old field restoration
• Plant ecology and ecophysiology
• Landscape ecology and restoration
• Nature conservation and ecological restoration in social-ecological systems

Publications

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Memberships

• Ecological Society of Australia.
• British Ecological Society
• Royal Society of Western Australia
• International Association for Landscape Ecology
• Society for Ecological Restoration International
  

Honours and awards

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
• ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology and Environment
• Member of Faculty of 1000 - Biology
• Distinguished Scholarship Award,1999, International Association for Landscape Ecology
• Finalist, 2001 Eureka Awards (The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Eureka Prize for Biodiversity Research)
  

Current external positions

• Editor in Chief, Restoration Ecology (2005-)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Landscape Ecology (2006-)
• Member, Editorial Board, Ecological Management and Restoration (1999-)
• Associate Editor, Island Press Restoration Ecology Series
• Member, Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press Landscape Ecology series
• Member, Society for Ecological Restoration, Science and Policy Working Group
• Chair, Advisory Board, CERF Applied Environmental Decision Analysis Hub, 2007-
• Member, Wilderness Society Wildcountry Science Council, 2003-

Research profile

Research profile and publications >>

Centre of Excellence for Climate Change Woodland and Forest Health
School of Plant Biology
University of Western Australia (M084)
35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Ph: +61 (8) 6488 4691
Fax: +61 (8) 6488 1108
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