Estimating future extinction risk for Australian tetrapods
The world is currently facing an unprecedented biodiversity crisis, with many of the world's fauna and flora facing risk of extinction. Estimates of extinction risk are crucial to identify which species are most at risk and to plan effective conservation schemes. However, the world is also experiencing rapid global changes in climate and human impacts, all of which is expected to drastically change the habitats the world's biodiversity relies on.
Working with Ben Scheele, Marcel Cardillo, Lindell Bromham, and Xia Hua of the Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, I use Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) and state-of-the-art Machine Learning (ML) methods to estimate the future extinction risk of Australia's land vertebrates.
Updates on this project as it advances!
The world is currently facing an unprecedented biodiversity crisis, with many of the world's fauna and flora facing risk of extinction. Estimates of extinction risk are crucial to identify which species are most at risk and to plan effective conservation schemes. However, the world is also experiencing rapid global changes in climate and human impacts, all of which is expected to drastically change the habitats the world's biodiversity relies on.
Working with Ben Scheele, Marcel Cardillo, Lindell Bromham, and Xia Hua of the Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, I use Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) and state-of-the-art Machine Learning (ML) methods to estimate the future extinction risk of Australia's land vertebrates.
Updates on this project as it advances!
