Graeme Gillespie

Project Leader
Northern Territory Government
Graeme is an ecologist and conservation biologist by training who has developed and implemented wildlife research projects with a focus on threatened species, and broad-based biodiversity conservation programs in Australia and South East Asia. He has dedicated his professional career to wildlife management with a specific focus on threatened species conservation, via applied research, community engagement and influencing management and policy.

In leadership roles, Graeme has contributed to conservation strategic planning and policy in the government environmental sector, the Zoo industry, the non-government conservation sector, and the community at large.
Projects
Responses of threatened species to cats and fire management in Kakadu and northern savannas
Responses of threatened species to cats and fire management in Kakadu and northern savannas Project 1.1.1
Saving threatened frogs with refuges from disease, fish predation and fragmentation
Saving threatened frogs with refuges from disease, fish predation and fragmentation Project 1.4.1
Population responses to fires of varying severity for priority vertebrate and spiny crayfish species, and the extent to which management actions support recovery
Population responses to fires of varying severity for priority vertebrate and spiny crayfish species, and the extent to which management actions support recovery Project 8.3.2
Publications
The Australian frogs most at risk of extinction and the actions needed to save them
Estimates of the impacts of the 2019–20 fires on populations of native animal species
Recruitment is key to understanding amphibian’s different population-level responses to chytrid fungus infection
Biological Conservation
Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction
Pacific Conservation Biology
Bottom-up and top-down processes influence contemporary patterns of mammal species richness in Australia's monsoonal tropics
Biological Conservation
Status of mammals on Groote Eylandt: Safe haven or slow burn?
Austral Ecology
Monitoring wildlife in the Top End
TSR Hub
Saving threatened frogs with refuges from disease, fish predation and fragmentation
TSR Hub
Continental-scale assessment reveals inadequate monitoring for threatened vertebrates in a megadiverse country
Biological Conservation
Spatially explicit power analysis for detecting occupancy trends for multiple species
Ecological Applications
How to ensure threatened species monitoring leads to threatened species conservation
Ecological Management & Restoration
What do predator diets tell us about mammal declines in Kakadu National Park? - Journal
Wildlife Research
Top-down control of species distributions: feral cats driving the regional extinction of a threatened rodent in northern Australia
Diversity and Distributions
Protecting Australian mammals from introduced cats and foxes: The current status and future growth of predator-free havens
TSR Hub
Estimating site occupancy and detectability of the threatened partridge pigeon (Geophaps smithii) using camera traps
Austral Ecology
Systematic planning can rapidly close the protection gap in Australian mammal havens
Conservation Letters
Responses of threatened species to cats and fire management in Kakadu and northern savannas
TSR Hub
Rapid increase of Australian tropical savanna reptile abundance following exclusion of feral cats
Biological Conservation
Declining populations in one of the last refuges for threatened mammal species in northern Australia
Austral Ecology
Havens for threatened Australian mammals: the contributions of fenced areas and offshore islands to the protection of mammal species susceptible to introduced predators
Wildlife Research
Enumerating a continental-scale threat: How many feral cats in Australia?
Biological Conservation