Oscar Venter

PhD, The University of Queensland, 2007-2011

Current position: Post-Doc at James Cook University, Cairns

Email: oventer@gmail.com

Web:  http://www.jcu.edu.au/mtb/staff/academic/JCU_096118.html

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:

My favourite five:

1: Venter, O. and L. P. Koh. In Press. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+): game changer or just another quick fix?Proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences.

2: Venter, O., W. F. Laurance, T. Iwamura, K. A. Wilson, R. Fuller, and H. P. Possingham. 2009. Harnessing carbon payments to protect biodiversity.Science 326:1368.

3: Venter, O., E. Meijaard, H. Possingham, R. Dennis, D. Sheil, S. Wich, L. Hovani, and K. Wilson. 2009. Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals. Conservation Letters 2:123-129.

4: Venter, O., J. W. A. Grant, M. V. Noel, and J. W. Kim. 2008. Mechanisms underlying the increase in young-of-the-year Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) density with habitat complexity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:1956-1964.

5: Venter, O., N. N. Brodeur, L. Nemiroff, B. Belland, I. J. Dolinsek, and J. W. A. Grant. 2006. Threats to endangered species in Canada. Bioscience 56:903-910.