Ryan Chisholm PhD Candidate

  
   
 
 
  Ryan Chisholm  |  I am interested in theoretical approaches to problems in ecology and conservation biology, with a particular focus on invasive species and ecosystem service valuation.  Current research projects include the impact of invasive pine trees on ecosystem services in the South African Fynbos, extinction risk in Australian mammals, and the detection of catastrophic transitions in ecological systems.

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Education
2010 (expected): PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Advisor: Simon Levin
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

2007: MA in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Advisor: Simon Levin
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

2001: BSc (Hons.) in Mathematics and Botany
Advisor: Mark Burgman
The University of Melbourne, Australia

2001: BA in German
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Publications
Chisholm, R. A. and R. J. Taylor. (in press) Body size and extinction risk in Australian mammals: an information-theoretic approach. Austral Ecology 35

Chisholm, R. A. and J. W. Lichstein. (2009) Linking dispersal, immigration and scale in the neutral theory of biodiversity. Ecology Letters 12:1385-1393

Bekessy, S. A., B. A. Wintle, A. Gordon, J. C. Fox, R. Chisholm, B. Brown, T. Regan, N. Mooney, S. M. Read, and M. A. Burgman. 2009. Modelling human impacts on the Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax fleayi). Biological Conservation 142:2438-2448

Chisholm, R. A. and E. Filotas. 2009. Critical slowing down as an indicator of transitions in two-species models. Journal of Theoretical Biology 257:142-149.

Chisholm, R. A. 2009. The Ecology, Economics and Management of Alien Invasive Species. in S. A. Levin, editor. The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.

Bekessy, S., B. Wintle, A. Gordon, R. Chisholm, L. Venier, and J. Pearce. 2008. Dynamic Landscape Meta-population Models and Sustainable Forest Management. in J. Millspaugh and F. Thompson, editors. Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes. Elsevier Science, The Netherlands.

Chisholm, R., and R. Taylor. 2007. Null-hypothesis significance testing and the critical weight range for Australian mammals. Conservation Biology 21:1641–1645.

Chisholm, R. A. 2007. Sampling species abundance distributions: Resolving the veil-line debate. Journal of Theoretical Biology 247:600-607.

Chisholm, R. A., and B. A. Wintle. 2007. Incorporating landscape stochasticity into population viability analysis. Ecological Applications 17:317-322

Taylor, R. J., and R. A. Chisholm. 2005. The occurrence of hollows in eucalypts and Ironwood (Erythrophleum chlorostachys) in the Gulf region of the Northern Territory and its implications for timber harvesting. Pacific Conservation Biology 11:57-63.

Wintle, B. A., S. A. Bekessy, L. A. Venier, J. L. Pearce, and R. A. Chisholm. 2005. Utility of dynamic landscape metapopulation models for sustainable forest management. Conservation Biology 196:1930-1943.

Chisholm, R. A., and M. A. Burgman. 2004. The unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography: comment. Ecology 85:3172–3174.

Last update: 16 Nov 2009