Dr. David Westcott
Dr. David Westcott joined CSIRO in 1995 after completing a PhD at the University of British Columbia. He currently leads the Ecosystem Function and Prediction Stream in CSIRO’s Healthy Terrestrial Ecosystems at Atherton, and is responsible for a team of scientists and technical staff studying the ecology of tropical rainforests and landscapes.
Dr. Westcott’s expertise is vertebrate movement and landscape ecology, conservation biology, behaviour and evolution. His current projects include identification and impact of invasive pests in the Wet Tropics rainforests; cassowary genetics and population monitoring; biodiversity in Wet Tropics floodplains; predicting and managing invasive spread in rainforest habitats and flying fox ecology and management.
Latest News
- Laws protecting the Great Barrier Reef to be introduced next week, Queensland Premier says - Thu 28th May 2015
- Let’s get serious about protecting wildlife in a warming world - Thu 28th May 2015
- We’ve only monitored a fraction of the Barrier Reef’s species - Thu 28th May 2015
- Great Barrier Reef: warmer waters helping coral-eating starfish thrive - Fri 13th Feb 2015
- You are what you eat—if you're a coral reef fish - Wed 17th Dec 2014
