Associate Professor Corey Bradshaw

Biography/ Background

I am the Research Director of Marine Impacts at the Research Institute for Climate Change and Sustainability and have a joint appointment with the South Australian Research and Development Institute. I am employed through Marine Innovation South Australia. I have come to Adelaide from Charles Darwin University where I still hold an adjunct position. I have a broad range of research interests including population dynamics, extinction theory, behavioural ecology and invasive species, and works on a variety of taxa from the Antarctic to the tropics (see more detail below).

Visit my blog @ ConservationBytes.com

Teaching Interests

Current postgraduate students:

Salvador Herrando-Perez, PhD candidate. Factors controlling population size and extinction risk

Siobhan de Little, PhD candidate. Demography and control of disease-carrying tropical mosquitoes in northern Australia

Lochran Traill, PhD candidate. Plant herbivore interactions: a model two-species system in northern Australia

Bree Tillett, PhD candidate. Life history and demography of bull Carcharhinus leucas and pig-eye C. amboinensis sharks in northern Australia (with CDU & AIMS)

Conrad Speed, PhD Candidae. Ecology of juvenile reef sharks (with CDU & AIMS)

Florencia Cerutti, PhD Candidate. Demography and migration patterns of manta rays (Manta birostris) at Ningaloo Reef (with CDU & AIMS)

Mohd Azlan Jayasilan A. Gulam Azad, PhD candidate. The effects of long-term landscape modifications and the mosquito control programs around the Darwin region on volant vertebrates (with CDU)

Jai Sleeman, PhD candidate. Modelling whale shark abundance and distribution at Ningaloo Reef (with CDU & AIMS)

Michele Thums, PhD candidate. Optimal foraging models for southern elephant seals (with UTAS)

Stephen Wall, PhD candidate. Diet determination of southern elephant seals using fatty acid signature analysis and stable isotopes (with UTAS)

Marc Wohling, MSc. Life history drivers of rarity in tropical reef fish (with CDU & AIMS)

Professional Associations

Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia

Senior Editor, Conservation Letters

Associate and 'In Focus' Editor, Journal of Animal Ecology

Subject Editor, Biotropica

Adjunct Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University

Honorary Associate, University of Tasmania

Member Australasian Wildlife Management Society

Member British Ecological Society

Member Ecological Society of America

Member Society for Conservation Biology

Member Australian Marine Sciences Association

Member IUCN Species Survival Commission Crocodile Specialist Group

Qualifications

Postgraduate Certificate (Veterinary Conservation Medicine) (2005), Murdoch University, Perth, Australia

PhD Zoology (1999), University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

MSc Zoology (1994), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

BSc Ecology (1992), Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Awards

2008 South Australia Young Tall Poppy Science Award, Australian Institute of Policy & Science

2005 Visiting Science Fellow, Australian Academy of Science

2003 Research Excellence Award, University of Tasmania

Research Interests

I have a diverse, multidisciplinary and innovative research portfolio which has and continues to include topics ranging from the dynamics of populations, predicting the vulnerability of species to environmental change, optimal foraging theory, sustainability harvest & density reduction, disease dynamics and environmental drivers of population change, including climate change biology. Specific research foci include analytical and computer simulation modelling, quantitative behavioural ecology, foraging dynamics, impacts of tropical habitat modification on biodiversity, wildlife population management and sustainable harvest, evaluation of the minimum viable population size concept, examining the relative contribution of intrinsic (density regulation) factors on population trajectories and the ecology of invasive species.

Current & past postdoctoral fellows:

Dr. Steven Delean: Models of density regulation for predictions of extinction risk (ARC Discovery Research Associate)

Dr. Iain C. Field: Sustainable shark fisheries and shark ecology in northern Australia (ARC Linkage Research Associate)

Dr. Clive R. McMahon: Ecological-epidemiologial models of disease spread in invasive swamp buffalo (ARC Linkage APDI)

Dr. Camille Mellin: Predicting biodiversity patterns in tropical reef fish (AIMS-CERF Fellow)

Dr. Guojing Yang: Density regulation and environmental control of mosquito abundance in northern Australia (ARC Linkage Research Associate)

Currently active grants:

2008-2009, ZoNeCo, New Caledonia, Sustainable management of deep-sea snapper stocks in New Caledonia

2008-2010, ARC Discovery Grant, Density regulation as a major determinant of population persistence: advancing empirical and theoretical approaches to conserve biodiversity

2008, DEWHA, Developing non-lethal method for estimating age and habitat use for Australian sawfish populations

2007-2008, Australian Antarctic Program Grant, Digging up the past: the impact of life history traits on royal penguins (Eudyptes schlegeli)

2008-2009, Seaworld Grant, Gene profiling shark catches: do we know what we're catching?

2007-2008, Charles Darwin University Project Grant, Gene profiling shark catches: do we know what we're catching?

2007-2008, Charles Darwin University Project Grant, Modelling savanna biomass at continental and global scales

2007-2008, DEWHA, Extinction risk, threat assessment and priority management actions for the East Coast population of grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) in Australia

2007-2008, DEWHA, Distribution and abundance of Glyphis spp. in Northern Australia and their potential interactions with commercial fisheries

2007-2008, WA-DEC, Habitat use and migration patterns of silvertip and grey reef sharks at Rowley Shoals

2007-2008, IMOS-Australian Acoustic Tagging and Monitoring System, Habitat use and migration patterns of silvertip and grey reef sharks at Rowley Shoals

2007-2008, DEW, Developing population monitoring protocols to determine the abundance of Australian sea lions at key subpopulations in South Australia

2006-2009, ARC Linkage Grant, Ecological-epidemiological models of feral swamp buffalo control in northern Australia

2006-2008, ARC Linkage Grant, Estimating fishing-related mortality and designing sustainable management protocols for shark fisheries in Northern Australia

2006-2008, ARC Linkage Grant, Modelling and control of mosquito-borne diseases in Darwin using long-term monitoring

Publications

Selected recent publications (see also Full Publications List). PDFs available on request.

BRADSHAW, CJA, NS SODHI, BW BROOK. 2009. Tropical turmoil - a biodiversity tragedy in progress. Front Ecol Environ

BRADSHAW, CJA, BW BROOK, NS SODHI. In press. Flooding policy makers with evidence to save forests. Ambio

YANG, G-J, BW BROOK, PI WHELAN, S CLELAND, CJA BRADSHAW. 2008. Interplay between endogenous and exogenous factors controlling temporal abundance patterns of tropical disease-carrying mosquitoes. Ecol Applic In press

BRADSHAW, CJA, X GIAM, HTW TAN, BW BROOK, NS SODHI. 2008. Threat or invasive status in legumes is related to opposite extremes of the same ecological and life history attributes. J Ecol 96: 869-883

BROOK, BW, NS SODHI, CJA BRADSHAW. 2008. Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. Trends Ecol Evol 23: 453-460

BRADSHAW, CJA, BM FITZPATRICK, CC STEINBERG, BW BROOK, MG MEEKAN. 2008. Decline in whale shark size and abundance at Ningaloo Reef over the past decade: the world's largest fish is getting smaller. Biol Conserv 141: 1894-1905

BRADSHAW, CJA. 2007. Swimming in the deep end of the gene pool: global population structure of an oceanic giant. Mol Ecol 16: 5111-5113

BRADSHAW, CJA, IC FIELD, DMJS BOWMAN, C HAYNES, BW BROOK. 2007. Current and future threats from non-indigenous animal species in northern Australia: a spotlight on World Heritage Area Kakadu National Park. Wildl Res 34: 419-436

BRADSHAW, CJA, SODHI, NS, KSH PEH, BW BROOK. 2007. Global evidence that deforestation amplifies flood risk and severity in the developing world. Glob Change Biol 13: 2379-2395

SODHI, NS, BW BROOK, CJA BRADSHAW. 2007. Tropical Conservation Biology. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom

SODHI, NS, BW BROOK, CJA BRADSHAW. 2008. Causes and consequences of species extinctions. The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Levin, SA (ed.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. In press

SODHI, NS, D BICKFORD, AC DIESMOS, TM LEE, LP KOH, BW BROOK, CH SEKERCIOGLU, CJA BRADSHAW. 2008. Measuring the meltdown: drivers of global amphibian extinction and decline. PLoS One 3(2): e1636

SIMS, DW, EJ SOUTHALL, NJ HUMPHRIES, GC HAYS, CJA BRADSHAW, et al. 2008. Scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour. Nature 451: 1098-1102

SODHI, NS, LP KOH, KS-H PEH, HTW TAN, RL CHAZDON, RT CORLETT, TM LEE, RK COLWELL, BW BROOK, CH SEKERCIOGLU, CJA BRADSHAW. 2008. Correlates of extinction proneness in tropical angiosperms. Div Distrib 14: 1-10

TRAILL, LW, CJA BRADSHAW, BW BROOK. 2007. Minimum viable population size: a meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates. Biol Conserv 139: 159-166

BRADSHAW, CJA, DW SIMS, GC HAYS. 2007. Measurement error causes scale-dependent threshold erosion of biological signals extracted from animal movement data. Ecol Applic 77: 628-638

BRADSHAW, CJA, HF MOLLET, MG MEEKAN. 2007. Inferring population trends for the world's largest fish from mark-recapture estimates of survival. J Anim Ecol 76: 480-489

BRADSHAW, CJA, CR MCMAHON, GC HAYS. 2007. Behavioural inference of diving metabolic rate in free-ranging leatherback turtles. Physiol Biochem Zool 80: 209-219

BRADSHAW, CJA, Y FUKUDA, M LETNIC, BW BROOK. 2006. Incorporating known sources of uncertainty to determine precautionary harvests of saltwater crocodiles. Ecol Applic 16: 1436-1448

BROOK, BW, CJA BRADSHAW. 2006. Strength of evidence for density dependence in abundance time series of 1198 species. Ecology 87: 1445-1451

BROOK, BW, LW TRAILL, CJA BRADSHAW. 2006. Minimum viable population size and global extinction risk are unrelated. Ecol Lett 9: 375-382

Community Engagement

Latest press

AdelaideNow - Young Tall Poppy Science Awards announced (Aug 2008)

University of Adelaide - Five Tall Poppies at of science at Uni of Adelaide (Aug 2008)

Discovery Channel - Is the world's largest shark shrinking? (Jul 2008)

Cambodian Times - Loss of forests spells death of bio-diversity (Jun 2008)

Mongabay.com - Tropical biodiversity on "a trajectory toward disaster" (Jun 2008)

Daily India - World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss (Jun 2008)

NewsWise - Looming tropical disaster needs urgent action (Jun 2008)

Independent Weekly - Forest loss a threat (Jun 2008)

ScienceAlert - Tropical habitats disappearing fast (Jun 2008)

Environmental News Network - Looming tropical disaster needs urgent action (Jun 2008)

Adelaide Now - Forest loss 'threatening humans' (Jun 2008)

Herald Sun - Forest loss 'threatening humans' (Jun 2008)

The Australian - Forest loss 'threatening humans' (Jun 2008)

Brisbane Courier Mail - Forest loss 'threatening humans' (Jun 2008)

The Daily Telegraph Australia - Time for that tropical getaway (Jun 2008)

The Daily Green - World Losing Rain Forest the Size of Illinois Every Year (Jun 2008)

Thaindian News - World is fast losing battle over tropical habitat loss (Jun 2008)

News.com.au - Forest loss 'threatening humans' (Jun 2008)

Radio Adelaide - Corruption killing the world's forests (Jun 2008)

ABC Radio National (Bush Telegraph) - Invasive or threatened? (Jun 2008)

United Press International (USA) - Scientists ID species' ecological fates (Jun 2008)

ScienceAlert: Study determines 'species to watch' (Jun 2008)

Thaindian News (Bangkok) - New study to identify species prone to extinction under environmental change (Jun 2008)

Biology News Net - Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified (Jun 2008)

The West Australian - Study to identify at-risk species (Jun 2008)

Science Daily: Threatened or invasive? Species' fates identified (Jun 2008)

Origins Magazine - Australia's Choice: Back from the Brink (Apr 2008)

Conservation Magazine - Flood Insurance (Mar 2008)

Ecos - No easy solutions to Kakadu's feral animal problem (18 Dec 2007)

Nigerian Tribune - Showers of agony, ruin and death (28 Nov 2007)

Recent activities

Presentation to South Australia Department of Environment and Heritage - Dealing with marine climate change in South Australia (28 Aug 2008)

Rock Lobster Industry Research Workshop - Marine climate change in Australia (20 Jun 2008)

Climate 2030 Seminar Series - How biological mechanisms altered by global warming affect ecosystem functioning (20 May 2008)

Climate change forum for secondary school teachers (17 April 2008)

Files

• Full publication list - CJA Bradshaw (updated 22 Aug 2008) - BradshawPublications.htm [491.6K] (text/html)

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Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 Aug 2008