Cassie Speakman

I am a PhD candidate and casual academic within the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

My research aims to understand how human-induced environmental change impacts wild populations and to identify effective species management and conservation options. My research uses a variety or individual-, population-, and ecosystem-level modelling approaches to inform the management and conservation of species in the wild. These approaches can be applied to vulnerable species at risk from habitat loss, climate change, predation and competition (among others) and to invasive species that require management.

I am also interested in using bioenergetics and individual-based modelling approaches to understand life-history traits and how environmental change may impact these traits and the overall population.