Scott Burnett

Biography

"Dr Scott Burnett's research focuses on the distribution and environmental needs of vertebrate wildlife in Australia and southern Asia. He has ongoing field programs in the Sunshine Coast Area, Wet Tropics region of far northern Australia, and Nepal where he studies and documents the ecology and conservation status of carnivorous marsupials and owls, the nature and habitat determinants of a community or meso-carnivores and insectivores, and the composition, habitat associations and effective monitoring or regional vertebrate fauna communities. Scott's teaching focuses on the diversity of the world's animal clades, with a focus on Australian Vertebrates, the principles of animal ecology and monitoring, and the interaction between animal form, ecology, and habitat."

Research Interest

Ecology and conservation of threatened vertebrates, ecology of carnivorous marsupials, ecology of owls, monitoring wildlife populations and communities.