Professor Don Driscoll

Don Driscoll is a Professor in the field of Terrestrial Ecology, with a large emphasis on studying conservation biology. Professor Driscoll acquired his PhD at the University of Western Australia, where he studied the metapopulation ecology of endangered frogs. He also completed a Post-Doc at CSIRO in Canberra, where he studied the impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on reptiles, as well as beetles in agricultural landscapes.

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Professor Driscoll is also the director of the Centre for Integrative Ecology. He studies the role that species attain within an environment across their landscape, especially with the function of dispersal. He emphasises using ecological theory and planning, for real-world conservation problems, and using these results to draw conclusions and outcomes.

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Professor Driscoll is also interested in how particular wildlife respond to different environmental influences, such as habitat fragmentation and degradation, and understanding how the specific species that depend on remnant vegetation respond. In relation to feral horses, he has been researching the influences that feral horses can have within the surrounding environments; including the impact on vegetation and ecosystem variables, and how these influences can affect the wildlife around them.

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A link to Professor Don Driscoll's Deakin University Staff profile is provided below:

https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/don-driscoll

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