Skye Wassens

Biography

Dr Skye Wassens is an internationally recognised ecologist specialising in the ecology and conservation of wetland dependant fauna and ecological responses to environmental flows. Her research on the responses of amphibians to environmental flooding and amphibian water requirements has lead the way for the inclusion of amphibians into environmental flooding programs throughout the Murray-Darling Basin. Her research wetland depend frogs currently underpins environmental flooding strategies in the Lowbidgee floodplain and Yanga National Park, the Murrumbidgee Water Sharing Plan and management of wetlands in the Mid Lachlan River. She currently leads major multidisciplinary field based research projects focus on the evaluation of ecological outcomes to environmental flows as well as projects focused on amphibian dispersal, tadpole ecology, the relationship between native and introduced freshwater fish and amphibian recruitment during wetland flooding, temporal activity patterns of wetland dependant frogs and large scale drivers of amphibian habitat occupancy in regulated rivers and floodplain wetlands.

Research Interest

Ecology