Professor

Graeme Cumming

FAA

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Professor Graeme Cumming is an internationally leading and widely cited interdisciplinary ecologist and conservation biologist. He has been instrumental in developing novel conceptual frameworks, systems models, statistical tools, and empirical analyses to support sustainable ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. Among his most significant contributions are new approaches to understanding social-ecological scale mismatches, system identity, growth trajectories in resource-dependent societies, and causes of social and ecological collapse. His work extends our understanding of the critical roles of scale, location, and the spatial dynamics of land- and seascape change for the resilience and sustainability of linked systems of people and nature.

Fields of research

31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
  • 3103 ECOLOGY
    • 310302 Community Ecology
    • 310305 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
  • 4102 ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
    • 410204 Ecosystem services (incl. pollination)
    • 410206 Landscape Ecology
  • 4104 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
    • 410401 Conservation and biodiversity
    • 410404 Environmental Management

For full list of research codes, please visit the ARC Website .

Expertise type

  • Disturbance Ecology
  • Environmental Management
  • Species Distribution Models
  • Conservation Science
  • Community Ecology
  • Conservation Biology
  • Resilience
  • Marine Ecology
  • Landscape ecology, conservation and biodiversity
  • Terrestrial Ecosystems
  • Marine Ecosystems
  • Social-ecological Systems
  • Spatial Statistics

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