Richard Hobbs is professor of the School of Plant Biology at
The University of Western Australia, Australia. He is a distinguished ecologist,
with experience in Australia, United Kingdom, Europe and United States. He is a
Fellow of the Australian Academy
of Science and a Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology and
Environment. He is the past Editor in Chief of the journal Restoration Ecology
between 2005 and 2014.
He completed his PhD at the University of Aberdeen, working
on post-fire dynamics of heathland communities, and then worked on serpentine
grassland dynamics as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University 1982-84. He
joined CSIRO Division of Wildlife & Ecology in Western Australia in 1984
and worked on the dynamics of fragmented ecosystems in the Western Australian
wheatbelt. He became Officer in Charge of the Western Australian laboratory in
1997, was Professor of Environmental Science at Murdoch University 2000-2009, and
joined the University of Western Australia in 2009.
He currently leads the Ecosystem Restoration &
Intervention Ecology (ERIE) Research Group, within the School of Plant Biology.
His particular interests are in vegetation dynamics and management,
fragmentation, invasive species, ecosystem restoration, conservation biology
and landscape ecology. His current research focuses on developing effective
management interventions in a rapidly changing world.
Over the course of his career, he has written
extensively in the areas of vegetation dynamics and management, ecosystem
fragmentation, ecosystem rehabilitation and restoration, landscape ecology, and
conservation biology. He has written
and/or edited more than 20 books, 130 book chapters, and 260 refereed journal
papers.