Oscar Venter

PhD Candidate

University of Queensland, June 2007-current

Jointly supervised with Prof. Hugh Possingham

Email: oventer@uq.edu.au

Phone: 61-7-3365-1589

I am broadly interested in conservation decision making, trading-off multiple conservation objectives, the conservation potential of ecosystem services, threats to endangered species and conservation effectiveness. Currently, I am working at the local and global scales to determine how initiatives to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation can be used to protect forest biodiversity.

Publications:

Venter, O, Laurance, WF, Iwamura, T, Wilson, KA, Fuller, R, Possingham, HP. Harnessing carbon-trading to save biodiversity. Science (In press).

Grainger, A, Boucher, DH, Frumhoff, PC, Laurance, WF, Lovejoy, T, McNeely, J, Niekisch, M, Raven, P, Sodhi, NS, Venter, O, Pimm, SL. Biodiversity and REDD at Copenhagen. Current Biology (In press).

Wilson, KA, Meijaard, E, Drummond S, Watts, M, Grantham, H, Turner, W, Boitani, L, Catullo, G, Christie, L, Dennis, R, Dutton, I, Falcucci, A, Maiorano, L, Possingham, HP, Rondinini, C, Conserving Biodiversity in East Kalimantan: What to do Where. Venter, O.Ecological Applications (In Press).

Venter, O, Watson, JEM, Meijaard E, Laurance, WF, Possingham, HP. Avoiding perverse outcomes from REDD. Conservation Biology (2010).

Kingsford, RT, Watson, JEM, Lundquist, CJ, Venter, O, Hughes, L, Johnston, EL, Atherton, J, Gawel, M, Keith, DA, Mackey, BG, Morley, C, Possingham, HP, Raynor, B, Recher, HF, Wilson, KA. Major Conservation Policy Issues for Biodiversity in Oceania. Conservation Biology (2009).

Venter, O, Meijaard, E, Possingham, HP, Dennis, R, Sheil, D, Wich, S, Hovani, L, Wilson, KA. Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals. Conservation Letters (2009).

Venter, O, Noel, MV, Kim, JW, Grant, JWA. Mechanisms Underlying the Increase in Young-Of-The-Year Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar) Density with Habitat Complexity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2008).

Brodeur, NN, Noel, MV, Venter, O, Dayanandan, S, Grant, JWA. No evidence of kin bias in dispersion of young-of-the-year Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. in a natural stream.  Journal of Fish Biology (2008).

Venter, O, Wilson, K, Meijaard, E. Strategies and alliances needed to protect forest from palm-oil industry. Nature (2007).

Venter, O, Brodeur, NN, Nemiroff, L, Belland, B, Dolinsek , IJ, Grant, JWA. Threats to endangerment in Canada. BioScience (2006).