Dr Grant Linley

Grant Linley is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Queensland whose research addresses how large-scale disturbances shape wildlife abundance, behaviour, habitat use, and biodiversity from regional to continental scales. During his PhD he combined camera-trap surveys, manipulative field experiments and Bayesian hierarchical modelling to quantify the ecological impacts of the 2019–2020 wildfires on terrestrial species in south-eastern Australian forests.

Currently he is working on two complementary themes using the decade-long WildObs camera-trap dataset. The first theme quantifies the drivers of inter-annual fluctuations in species across Australia by linking habitat characteristics, drought and rainfall variability, fire regimes and protected-area status. He is aiming to identify climate-sensitive hotspots and test the buffering effect of reserves. The second theme examines predator–prey dynamics across Australia by understanding how the density of predators, including dingoes, red foxes and feral cats, influences prey populations and diel activity patterns.

He has collaborated with leading fire ecologists and conservation scientists worldwide, conducting research across Australia, South Africa and Borneo, and contributes to interdisciplinary efforts to improve fire management and biodiversity conservation globally.

See Grant's Google Scholar page