ProfessorDon Driscoll
Professor Of Terrestrial Ecology
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
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- Professor Of Terrestrial EcologyFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences
- +61 3 925 17609 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Knowledge Areas
All of my research has conservation biology as a central theme, with a focus on how species use whole landscapes, particularly the role of dispersal. I take a range of approaches, including manipulative experiments, natural experiments and the application of population genetics. I place a strong emphasis on testing ecological theory using applied conservation problems.
Primary research areas include fire ecology, understanding movement of threatened species using high-throughput automated tracking, frog conservation in the face of drought and chytrid, and applications of new technology for monitoring wildlife, particularly AI-assisted camera traps for reptiles and invertebrates.
The Biodiversity Research and Conservation Ecology (BRACE) lab spans a range of conservation related research topics. Further details at dondriscoll.com.
GRANTS
- GRANTHigh resolution animal tracking data to calibrate wildlife monitoring using camera traps1 Jul 2026 - 30 Jun 2029People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Bingham A
- GRANTSTUDENT APPLICATION: Developing methods to trap and exclude invasive wolf snakes to enable reintroduction of extinct-in-the-wild Christmas Island reptiles.29 Jul 2025 - 30 Jun 2026People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Correia JW
- CONTRACT RESEARCHDiscovering how drought and environmental water interacts with disease to influence frog survival.1 Feb 2024 - 30 Jun 2025People funded by this grant:
- Don Driscoll
- GRANTImpacts of feral horses on post-fire recovery and species persistence of small mammals1 Apr 2023 - 30 Sep 2024People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Fuik-Burgemeestre SA
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAusATLAS Zoos Victoria18 Oct 2022 - 31 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Rani P,
- Bingham A
- GRANTImpacts of feral herbivores on post-fire recovery and species persistence17 Aug 2022 - 31 Dec 2025People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Fuik-Burgemeestre SA,
- Whisson D
- CONTRACT RESEARCHDrone surveys vs double-observer counts for East Gippsland Koala populations.11 May 2022 - 31 Jul 2022People funded by this grant:
- Howell L,
- Whisson D,
- Ierodiaconou D,
- Allan B,
- Driscoll D
- CONTRACT RESEARCHAustralian Mega-fire Synthesis, data collation.21 Mar 2022 - 31 May 2022People funded by this grant:
- Don Driscoll
- CONTRACT RESEARCHERP16 USE OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR NATIVE WILDLIFE POPULATION ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT3 Aug 2021 - 31 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Ritchie E,
- Whisson D,
- Weston M,
- Ierodiaconou D
- GRANTStudent application - TechnEcology : from Wildlife to Wellbeing20 Oct 2020 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Eichholtzer A
- GRANTStudent application - Testing the efficiency of Environmental DNA sampling compared with video-trap data: Terrestrial wildlife in the Victorian Mallee.20 Oct 2020 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Gaur K,
- Loke S
- GRANTStudent application - Understanding fire and wildlife interactions in the Victorian mallee using camera and video trapping20 Oct 2020 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Ritchie E,
- Pestell A,
- Driscoll D,
- Doherty T,
- Nimmo D
- GRANTRefuges for narrow range endemic invertebrates, butterflies and jewel beetles17 Sep 2020 - 30 Jun 2021People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Porch N,
- Sato C
- GRANTOptimising eDNA methods to accelerate non-invasive wildlife survey capacity in India. A case study using threatened amphibians from the Western Ghats31 Jul 2020 - 31 Mar 2022People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Gaur K,
- Loke S
- GRANTA field experiment to discover how drought and environmental-water interacts with disease to influence frog survival1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2023People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Jilani MJ
- CONTRACT RESEARCHConservation Ecology of the pink-tailed worm lizard (Aprasia parapulchella).1 Jul 2020 - 30 Jun 2022People funded by this grant:
- Don Driscoll
- GRANTUnderstanding the response of reptiles and frogs to fire and predation1 Jun 2020 - 15 Jul 2022People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Macdonald K,
- Doherty T
- GRANTConserving threatened mammals in the face of fire and predation5 May 2020 - 30 May 2022People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Watchorn DJ
- GRANTIs eDNA (Environmental DNA) a better way to monitor Australia's wildlife? Gaur1 May 2020 - 30 Jun 2022People funded by this grant:
- Driscoll D,
- Gaur K,
- Loke S
- GRANTImpacts of reducing environmental water availability on frogs. A case study from Murree, Pakistan21 Apr 2020 - 31 Dec 2022People funded by this grant:
- Jilani MJ,
- Driscoll D