Given by Dr Salit Kark, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
Dr Salit Kark is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the School of Biological Sciences, the University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia). Salit is the Head of the Biodiversity Research Group, and a Chief Investigator and Theme Leader of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED; 2011-2018). She is Chief Investigator of the National Environmental Science Program (NESP; 2015-2022) Threatened Species Recovery Hub.
Dr Kark is an ecologist and conservation scientist, with interest and expertise in the processes (ecological, behavioural and evolutionary) shaping biodiversity and their implications for conservation, environmental decisions and management. She has worked across multiple spatial scales, from global to local (examining latitudinal and altitudinal gradients), and in both terrestrial (birds and mammals mostly) and marine ecosystems, with focus on the Mediterranean Basin and Sea. She works in natural and human-dominated landscapes, examining the generality of spatial patterns and processes. Her research integrates socio-economic and historical factors as well as biological and ecological drivers in disentangling the role of the multiple factors that shape biodiversity. In this framework, she is interested in the links between science, practice and policy and in how we can improve science-based conservation.
If anyone would like to meet with Dr Kark on Monday, please feel free to contact Dr Caroline Dingle.
