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Wayne Houston

BSc (Hons), MAppSc
Academic Casual - Research
School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences
Rockhampton North
Building 16 - Room G.06
CQUniversity Rockhampton
About Me

Wayne Houston has over 30 years experience as a field ecologist across a wide range of ecosystems in northern Australia including research of terrestrial fauna, flora and wetland biota. He has an interest in landscape ecology and its application to ecosystem health assessment and is skilled in bird, reptile, mammal, frog and invertebrate identification including bioindicator taxa such as ants. 

Wayne has special interests in:

  • using biodiversity to evaluate sustainable land management practices in rangelands
  • environmental drivers and the ecology of endangered species, particularly birds
  • wetland ecology including mangroves and saltmarshes.

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Professional Experience

Wayne Houston has over 30 years experience as a field ecologist across a wide range of ecosystems in northern Australia including research of terrestrial fauna, flora and wetland biota. He has an interest in landscape ecology and its application to ecosystem health assessment and is skilled in bird, reptile, mammal, frog and invertebrate identification including bioindicator taxa such as ants. 

Wayne has special interests in:

  • using biodiversity to evaluate sustainable land management practices in rangelands
  • environmental drivers and the ecology of endangered species, particularly the Capricorn Yellow Chat
  • wetland ecology including mangroves and saltmarshes.

Professional Memberships

Ecological Society of Australia

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