Biography
CURRENT ROLE
Ecologist and Assistant Chief of CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Biological invasions, ecological implications of GMOs, environmental risk assessment, biological control of weeds, plant population ecology.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Member, Editorial Board, Biological Invasions 1998 ¿.
Chair, Global Invasive Species program 2004-.
SELECTED PAPERS
Caley P., Lonsdale W.M. & Pheloung P.C. (2005) Quantifying uncertainty in predictions of invasiveness. Biological Invasions, 7, 000-000.
Vila, M., Williamson, M. & Lonsdale, W. (2004) Competition experiments on alien weeds with crops: lessons for measuring plant invasion impact? Biological Invasions, 6, 59-69.
Hayes, KR, Gregg, PC, Gupta, V. V. S. R., Jessop, R., Lonsdale, W. M., Sindel, B., Stanley, J., and Williams, C. K. Identifying hazards in complex ecological systems. Part 3: Hierarchical Holographic Model for herbicide tolerant oilseed rape. Environmental Biosafety Research 3, 109-128. 2004.
Godfree, R.C. , Young, A.G., Lonsdale, W.M., Woods, M.J. & Burdon, J.J. (2004) Ecological risk assessment of transgenic pasture plants: a community gradient modelling approach. Ecology Letters, 7, 1077¿1089.
Mack, R.N. & Lonsdale, W.M. (2001) Humans as global plant dispersers: getting more than we bargained for. Bioscience, 51, 95-102.
Mack, R.N., Simberloff, D., Lonsdale, W.M., Evans, H., Clout, M. & Bazzaz, F.A. (2000) Biotic invasions: causes, epidemiology, global consequences, and control. Ecological Applications, 10, 689-710.
Walker, B. and Lonsdale, W. M. Genetically modified organisms at the crossroads: Comments on "Genetically Modified Crops: Risks and Promise" by Gordon Conway. Conservation Ecology Online 4(1), 12. 2000. 2000.
Lonsdale, W.M. (1999) Global patterns of plant invasions and the concept of invasibility. Ecology, 80, 1522-1536.
Smith, C.S., Lonsdale, W.M. & Fortune, J. (1999) When to ignore advice: invasion predictions and decision theory. Biological Invasions, 1, 89-96.
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