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Email

billy.geary@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Lecturer in Quantitative Ecology
School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences
Education
PhD
Deakin University
Masters
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
Deakin University
ORCID

0000-0002-6520-689X

Dr Billy Geary

Lecturer in Quantitative Ecology
School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences

37 Scholarly works
2 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Other

    Developing a species occurrence-based metric for measuring the biodiversity footprint of companies
    DOI: 10.5194/wbf2026-629
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Optimising fire and predator management for conservation
    DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.70256
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology
    DOI: 10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x
  • 2025

    Journal article

    ‘Megafire’—You May Not Like It, But You Cannot Avoid It
    DOI: 10.1111/geb.70032
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Large-scale and long-term wildlife research and monitoring using camera traps: a continental synthesis
    DOI: 10.1111/brv.13152
  • 2025

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Quantifying the Impact of Economic Activity on Biodiversity
  • 2024

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Identifying and Managing Risks of Future Fire Regimes to Biodiversity
Billy Geary

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Widespread resilience of animal species, functional diversity, and predator–prey networks to an unprecedented gigafire
    DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14815
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Wombat burrows are hotspots for small vertebrates in a landscape subject to gigafire
    DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyae034
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Fragments maintain similar herpetofauna and small mammal richness and diversity to continuous habitat, but community composition and traits differ
    DOI: 10.1007/s10980-024-01927-8
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Shifting fire regimes cause continent-wide transformation of threatened species habitat
    DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2316417121
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Cats, foxes and fire: quantitative review reveals that invasive predator activity is most likely to increase shortly after fire
    DOI: 10.1186/s42408-023-00183-6

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