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Richard Loyn M.A. (Cambridge University), D.Sc. (University of Melbourne 2018, for thesis on forest management & biodiversity conservation)
Director, Eco Insights; Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University, University of Melbourne and Charles Sturt University; recently Principal Scientist, Community Ecology, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, DELWP. Fellow of the International Ornithologists Union. D.L. Serventy Medal 2014.
Richard recently co-founded a specialist consulting firm, Eco Insights, which does strategic research to help conserve wildlife in diverse environments with competing demands for land use. As Director he has completed projects on environmental flows (for the Mallee CMA), woody weed removal in small reserves (for the Mornington Peninsula Shire), effects of effluent management on waterbirds (for Melbourne Water), investigating the evidence for Night Parrot occurrence on specific reserves (for the Australian Wildlife Conservancy), effects of fire on mammals (for Victorian National Parks Association) and training foresters to conserve wildlife in Papua New Guinea (with Tasmanian colleagues partly funded by the UN/FAO).
Previously he devoted most of his career to the Victorian Government, mainly at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research where he managed the Terrestrial and Community Ecology Sections 2006-12, developing and running programs on forests, fire, woodlands, wetlands and spatial modelling. He grew the section to ~35 staff with 75% of its funding from non-recurrent contracts (~$3m/year). Earlier he performed a range of managerial roles, with responsibilities for duck hunting in Victoria; ecosystem conservation programs; Flora, Fauna & Fisheries operations for Melbourne; and Wildlife Research for Victoria (1995-2000).
Richard is a widely-published ecologist with interests in fauna habitat, conservation and land use. He helped pioneer the recovery team process for threatened species, development of survey methods (e.g. the standard timed area-search for counting bush-birds) and retrospective methods for understanding long-term impacts. He led the way in recognising the active roles played by different birds in controlling or sequestering insect populations, affecting the health of woodland ecosystems. Richard and his team used GIS and modelling tools to predict distributions of owls and arboreal mammals and select 700 special protection zones (each ~500 ha, 350,000 ha total) for the Regional Forest Agreement process. They won the inaugural David Ashton Award for Biodiversity Research in 1999 for that work, and in 2008 for work on fauna in eucalypt plantations. Richard and his colleagues recently developed a series of collaborative fire ecology projects to assess effects of fire regimes on forest flora and fauna. Richard has influenced development of policy in these areas, and he has served on many committees and chaired the national Research Working Group 4 on native forest management.
Richard has played a leading role in wetland ecology projects, in tidal and freshwater ecosystems. He has examined effects of flood regimes, salinity and waste-water treatment, and recognises the need for environmental flows and the value of artificial wetlands. He initiated a long-term monitoring program for waterbirds in Western Port, now in its 46th year, which demonstrated spectacular increases in some species and a greater number of declines, related to continental weather patterns and events on the East Asian-Australasian flyway, as well as local factors. Richard chaired a group to review the management of duck hunting in the late 1980s, reducing its impact and fostering cooperation between hunting and conservation groups.. He ran a major program from 2000 to help Melbourne Water manage its Ramsar-listed sewage treatment plant near Werribee to conserve biodiversity and treat sewage for 2 million people, as well as providing habitat for over 100,000 waterbirds. This program considered ecological variables and weather patterns at multiple scales, and led to new management initiatives.
Richard has co-supervised 31 postgraduate or honours students (90% success). He reviews papers for international journals and is an editor of Australian Field Ornithology. He has contributed to conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, India, Taiwan, China, Japan & Europe. Richard specialises at involving community groups in his work (e.g. BirdLife Australia), and has served on their committees and governing bodies. He is an enthusiastic public speaker.
Richard has extensive experience of most Australian ecosystems and his travels have taken him and his family to all continents. He has completed successful consultancies in India, Papua New Guinea and many parts of Australia. Richard believes in an integrated approach to conservation and the importance of involving all stakeholders, especially local people.
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EMU-AUSTRAL ORNITHOLOGYno. 1 (2024): 123-145
Forest Ecology and Management (2023): 120877-120877
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoriano. 2 (2023): 108-115
Richard H. Loyn,Danny I. Rogers,Robert J. Swindley,Peter W. Menkhorst,Kasey Stamation,Suelin Haynes, Heather Graham,Graham Hepworth, William K. Steele
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