BSc Zoology (Hons), PhD Zoology
Full member, Environmental Futures Centre
Deputy Head, Griffith School of Environment
Contact details for Professor Nigel Stork
Research Expertise
- Tropical forest ecology
- Global biodiversity
- Insect ecology and systematics
Current Projects
- Ecosystem services from large urban green spaces - the biodiversity and carbon benefit of urban golf courses (ARC Linkage Project, managed by University of Melbourne)
Resarch Team
- Carl Wardhaugh (PhD candidate). The spatial and temporal distribution of arthropods in forest canopies: the central importance of resource availability. (James Cook University)
- S Sloan (PhD candidate). Recent Reforestation in Panama (University of Melbourne)
- Christina Ellis (PhD candidate). Political ecology of resource wars and biodiversity: an evaluation of gorilla conservation in World Heritage Sites, Democratic Republic of Congo (University of Melbourne)
- Himlal Baral (PhD candidate). Trade-offs between Timber and Ecosystem Services from Planted Forests: A case study of the Green Triangle Region, Southern Australia (University of Melbourne)
Awards, Appointments and Honours
- Cassowary Science Award (2009 - Wet Tropics Management Authority
- Honorary Research Fellow (2007) - James Cook University
- Chair - Cape York Scientific and Cultural Advisory Committee to the Queensland Government (2008 - present)
- Director - Earthwatch Institute of Australia (2007 - present)
- President - Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (2009 - 2012)
- Member - Australian DIVERSITAS Committee (2005 - present)
- Member - Global Canopy Program Steering Committee (2000 - present)
- Member - International Canopy Network (ICAN), International Advisor (2000 - present)