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Barry Brook
PeerJ Editor & Author
700 Points

Contributions by role

Author 100
Editor 600

Contributions by subject area

Agricultural Science
Biodiversity
Ecology
Ecotoxicology
Environmental Impacts
Conservation Biology
Zoology
Population Biology
Ethical Issues
Natural Resource Management
Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Evolutionary Studies
Paleontology
Animal Behavior
Entomology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Climate Change Biology

Barry W Brook

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

Barry Brook, a conservation biologist and modeller, is an ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania. Leader of the Dynamics of Eco-evolutionary Patterns (DEEP) research group and the UTAS node of CABAH, Barry is a highly cited scientist, having published three books, over 350 refereed papers, and many popular articles. His awards include the 2006 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal, the 2010 Community Science Educator of the Year and 2013 Scopus Researcher of the Year. He focuses on global change biology, ecological dynamics, paleoenvironments, energy systems, and statistical-simulation models.

Biodiversity Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Data Mining & Machine Learning Ecology Paleontology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Tasmania

Work details

ARC Laureate Fellow

University of Tasmania
November 2014
Biological Sciences
Professor, Chair of Environmental Sustainability Head, Dynamics of Eco-Evolutionary Patterns (DEEP) lab ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity & Heritage (CABAH)

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
  • Edited 6
March 20, 2023
Pesticides reduce tropical amphibian and reptile diversity in agricultural landscapes in Indonesia
Thomas Cherico Wanger, Barry W. Brook, Theodore Evans, Teja Tscharntke
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15046 PubMed 36967985

Academic Editor on

February 22, 2022
Methodological approaches for estimating populations of the endangered dhole Cuon alpinus
Girish A. Punjabi, Linnea Worsøe Havmøller, Rasmus Worsøe Havmøller, Dusit Ngoprasert, Arjun Srivathsa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12905 PubMed 35223205
August 20, 2019
Twisted tale of the tiger: the case of inappropriate data and deficient science
Qamar Qureshi, Rajesh Gopal, Yadvendradev Jhala
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7482 PubMed 31489264
November 21, 2018
Catch fast and kill quickly: do tiger beetles use the same strategies when hunting different types of prey?
Tomasz Rewicz, Radomir Jaskuła
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5971 PubMed 30498639
September 7, 2018
The palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia
Tamara L. Fletcher, Patrick T. Moss, Steven W. Salisbury
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5513 PubMed 30210941
May 30, 2018
Multi-dimensional Precision Livestock Farming: a potential toolbox for sustainable rangeland management
Agustina di Virgilio, Juan M. Morales, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Emily L.C. Shepard, Rory P. Wilson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4867 PubMed 29868276
May 4, 2018
Temporally-aware algorithms for the classification of anuran sounds
Amalia Luque, Javier Romero-Lemos, Alejandro Carrasco, Luis Gonzalez-Abril
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4732 PubMed 29740517