Christopher Richard Dickman is an Australian

ecologist Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. Ecology overlaps with the closely re ...

specialised in the ecology of small

vertebrates Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord, while the cranium protects the brain. The vertebrates make up the subphylum Vertebra ...

in Australia in general, and of

marsupial Marsupials are a diverse group of mammals belonging to the infraclass Marsupialia. They are natively found in Australasia, Wallacea, and the Americas. One of marsupials' unique features is their reproductive strategy: the young are born in a r ...

s in particular. He is a professor in terrestrial ecology at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences of the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public university, public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the ...

,Professor Chris Dickman
The Australian National University, Canberra> Accessed October 2024. and a co-director of its Desert Ecology Research Group.

Recognition

Dickman is a

fellow of the Australian Academy of Science The Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science is made up of about 500 Australian scientists. Scientists judged by their peers to have made an exceptional contribution to knowledge in their field may be elected to Fellowship of the Academy ...

, Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and fellow of the Zoological Society of India. In 2022 he was made an international honorary member of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...

. He has received the Ellis Troughton Memorial Award of the Australian Mammal Society (1980), the NSW Science & Engineering Award (2010), the

Clarke Medal The Clarke Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of New South Wales, the oldest learned society in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere, for distinguished work in the Natural sciences. The medal is named in honour of the Reverend William Branwh ...

of the Royal Society of New South Wales (2015) and a gold medal from the

Ecological Society of Australia The 'Ecological Society of Australia'' (ESA) is a group of ecologists in Australia, with over 1100 members from all Australian states and territories. The ESA has a 60-year history supporting ecologists, promoting ecology and ecological research. ...

(2018).

Books

As author

* ''Secret lives of carnivorous marsupials''. (Clayton South, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2018), 328 pp. * ''A Fragile Balance: the Extraordinary Story of Australia's Marsupials''. (Fishermans Bend (Vic.) : Craftsman House, 2007), 246 pp. Details * ''A Zoological Revolution: Using Native Fauna to Assist in its Own Survival''. (Sydney: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and Australian Museum, 2002), 176 pp. Details

As editor

* ''A Clash of Paradigms: Community and Research-Based Conservation''. (Mosman: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales., 2002), 104 pp. Details * ''Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve''. (Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2010), 352 pp.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dickman, Christopher Academic staff of the University of Sydney Australian ecologists Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian National University alumni