Person

Baker, Andrew

Occupation
Ecologist and Mammalogist

Summary

Andrew Baker is a zoologist at the Queensland University of Technology where he is Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science and leads the Mammal Ecology Research Group. His major research focus is on the ecology, taxonomy and evolution of mammals. Discoveries include six new species of Antechinus, several of which are endangered. Other research interests include the evolution of aquatic Gondwanan flies, and the evolution of bugs and their parasites. His extensive publications include Field companion to the mammals of Australia (2013), of which he was co-editor; Secret lives of carnivorous marsupials (2018, with Chris Dickman); and papers aimed at a wide public audience. Baker is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Vertebrate Zoology at the Queensland Museum, and a member of the Australasian Marsupial and Monotreme Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission, International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

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Chronology

1993
Education - BAppSc (hons), Queensland University of Technology
1999
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Queensland University of Technology
2018 - 2021
Career position - Member of Council, Australian Mammal Society
2020
Award - Queensland Natural History Award, Queenland Naturalists' Club

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Books

  • Baker, Andrew; and Dickman, Chris, Secret lives of carnivorous marsupials (Clayton South, Vic.: CSIRO Publishing, 2018), 328 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Van Dyck, Steve; Gynther, Ian; and Baker, Andrew eds, Field companion to the mammals of Australia (Sydney: New Holland, 2013), 573 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Anon, 'The Queensland Natural History Award, 2020 [awarded to Andrew Baker]', Queensland naturalist, 58 (1/3) (2020), 1-2. Details

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