STAFF PROFILE
Dr Ascelin Gordon
Dr Ascelin Gordon works as a Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group within the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.
His current research focuses on developing modelling approaches for understanding the impacts of environmental policies on biodiversity values in the landscape. He works as part of the multi-institution Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) funded by the Australian Research Council.
Research interests
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Conservation planning and spatial prioritisation;
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Dealing with uncertainties in conservation planning data;
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Setting priorities for conservation investment using ecological and economic theory;
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Ecological populating modelling;
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Risk and decision-making for conservation;
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Conservation on private land and market based instruments for conservation;
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Agent based modelling.
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PhD, University of Melbourne
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BSc (Hons), University of Melbourne
- Hardy, M.,Fitzsimons, J.,Bekessy, S.,Gordon, A. (2017). Exploring the permanence of conservation covenants In: Conservation Letters, 10, 221 - 230
- Damiens, F.,Mumaw, L.,Backstrom, A.,Bekessy, S.,Coffey, B.,Faulkner, R.,Garrard, G.,Hardy, M.,Kusmanoff, A.,Mata, L.,Rickards, L.,Selinske, M.,Torabi, N.,Gordon, A. (2017). Why politics and context matter in conservation policy In: Global Policy, 8, 253 - 256
- Koshkina, V.,Wang, Y.,Gordon, A.,Dorazio, R.,White, M.,Stone, L. (2017). Integrated species distribution models: combiningpresence-background data and site-occupancy data wit himperfect detection In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 420 - 430
- Ives, C.,Oke, C.,Hehir, A.,Gordon, A.,Wang, Y.,Bekessy, S. (2017). Capturing residents' values for urban green space: Mapping, analysis and guidance for practice In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 161, 32 - 43
- Baker, C.,Gordon, A.,Bode, M. (2017). Ensemble ecosystem modeling for predicting ecosystem response to predator reintroduction In: Conservation Biology, 31, 376 - 384
- Garrard, G.,Faulkner, R.,Mata, L.,Torabi, N.,Peterson, I.,Gordon, A.,Bekessy, S. (2017). An assessment of the national effort towards feral cat control In: Australian Government Department of Environment and Energy Melbourne, Australia
- Hardy, M.,Fitzsimons, J.,Bekessy, S.,Gordon, A. (2017). (In Press) Factors influencing property selection for conservation revolving funds In: Conservation Biology, , 1 - 26
- Fidler, F.,Chee, Y.,Wintle, B.,Burgman, M.,McCarthy, M.,Gordon, A. (2017). Metaresearch for evaluating reproducibility in ecology and evolution In: BioScience, 67, 282 - 289
- Kusmanoff, A.,Fidler, F.,Gordon, A.,Bekessy, S. (2017). Decline of 'biodiversity' in conservation policy discourse in Australia In: Environmental Science and Policy, 77, 160 - 165
- Bull, J.,Gordon, A.,Watson, J.,Maron, M. (2016). Seeking convergence on the key concepts in 'no net loss' policy In: Journal of Applied Ecology, 53, 1686 - 1693
- Designing green spaces for biodiversity and human well-being. Funded by: ARC Linkage Grant 2016 from (2017 to 2019)
- Evaluating environmental policies with immediate costs and long-term gains. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2015 from (2015 to 2020)
- New statistical approaches for analysing foodwebs and species distributions. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2015 from (2015 to 2017)
- 2015 Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship (Gordon). Funded by: RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellowship from (2015 to 2019)
3 PhD Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions