Dr. Joseph Bennett

Biography

Joseph Bennett is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science and the Department of Biology at Carleton University. His research covers a variety of themes including conservation prioritization, invasion ecology, biogeography, and spatial statistics, with a particular emphasis on practical questions related to invasive species control and management techniques for protecting threatened species. Bennett's theoretical work addresses questions of coexistence in fluctuating environments and the determinants of community assembly in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. His current projects focus on refining multi-species management approaches for threatened species, deriving common lessons for Arctic and Antarctic conservation, developing new techniques for aquatic environmental assessment, and interpreting community patterns to inform conservation decisions. Bennett completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Professor Peter Arcese, focusing on spatial ecology and conservation within the Garry Oak Ecosystem in British Columbia. He has also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Professor Hugh Possingham at the University of Queensland from 2012 to 2015, involving himself in natural resource management projects in Laos and environmental assessments in the Canadian Arctic.

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