Rate My Professor Christopher Dickman

Dickman's research examines factors influencing the distribution, abundance, and population dynamics of terrestrial vertebrates, particularly small mammals and marsupials in arid Australian ecosystems. His pioneering studies highlight the profound effects of competition, predation, and indirect interactions, reshaping approaches to conservation of threatened species and management of invasive predators like feral cats. He has authored or edited books such as Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials (2018, with Andrew Baker), A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australia's Marsupials (2007), and Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve (2010). With over 450 peer-reviewed publications, standout works include Invasive predators and global biodiversity loss (PNAS, 2016), Alien predators are more dangerous than native predators to prey populations (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2007), and Value of long-term ecological studies (Austral Ecology, 2012). Dickman has supervised more than 140 Honours and postgraduate students, contributed editorially to journals like Austral Ecology, and received major honors including Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science (2018), Ecological Society of Australia Gold Medal (2018), Clarke Medal (2015), and C. Hart Merriam Award (2008).