Dr Frederik Saltre

Research Fellow - Paleoecological Modelling

College of Science and Engineering

+61 8 82015499

frederik.saltre@flinders.edu.au

Biological Sciences (213)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

I joined Flinders University in the College of Science and Engineering in July 2017 as Research Fellow in Palaeo-ecological Modelling for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. I am the Coordinator of the Global Ecology Laboratory (with Professor Corey Bradshaw) and a member of the Weisbecker Lab (with Associate Professor Vera Weisbecker).

From 2013 to 2017, I was an ARC Research Associate at the University of Adelaide. Previously, I held a joint one year appointment with the Centre for Bio-Archaeology and Ecology and the School of Advanced Studies (EPHE) as Lecturer at Montpellier (France), and was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Oregon State University (USA).

I am an ecologist interested in how ecosystems change through space and time. I combine modelling approaches with fossil data and genetic knowledge to inform how human pressure and climate changes modified ecosystem functioning such as distributions and interactions of plants, animals, humans, and environments, from a deep-time perspective. I write about ecology and climate change over time from the Late Pleistocene (~126,000 years ago) to the present day, and how our understanding of the past can help prepare us for the future.

Qualifications

PhD, Biology Geosciences Agro-resources and Environment, University Montpellier 2, France 2010
MSc, Biology Geosciences Agro-resources and Environment, University Montpellier 2, France 2006
BSc, Biology of Organisms, University Montpellier 2, 2004

Honours, awards and grants

Visiting Scholarship Award at Center for the Study of Origins, University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA (Spring 2019)
Environment Institute’s International Conference Scheme grant, University of Adelaide, SA, Australia (2014)
Travel Grant International Biogeography Society Biennial Conference, Miami, FL, USA (2013)
1-year appointment Assistant professor Fellowship, France (2010).

Key responsibilities

My position is primarily research-focussed.

Current/recent Research Associates:

Dr Farzin Shabani: palaeo-ecological vegetation modelling
Dr John Llewellyn: paleo-ecological network modelling

Current/recent/past Research Assistants:

Dr Katharina Peters: paleodata management and megafauna extinction dynamics
Ms Sally Quinn (2018): statistical modelling
Ms Ellyse Bunney (2016-2017): fossil database management
Mr Sebastián Block (2016): fossil database management
Ms Marta Rodríguez-Rey (2013-2016): paleodata management and analysis

Scientific journal referee:

American Geophysical Union Books, Biology Letters, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Ecography, Ecological Modelling, Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Global and Planetary Changes, Journal of Biogeography, Method in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Communication, PLoS One,Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia and Tree.

Grant reviewer:

British Ecological Society (BES) Review College, European Research Council (ERC), United States of America National Science Foundation (NSF) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

Teaching interests

Current student supervision

Emilie Roy-Dufresne: modelling the effect of climate change on invasive species (PhD University of Adelaide, 2015 -)
Antoine Champreux: palaeovegetation modelling in South America (PhD Flinders University, 2018 -)
Fiona Laviano: Neanderthal and Homo spaiens interactions (PhD Flinders University, 2018 -)
Kathryn Venning: koala population dynamics (PhD Flinders University, 2019 -)
Seamus Doherty: ecological networks for modelling climate change in the Australian wet tropics (PhD Flinders Unniversity, 2020 -)
Phuong Chau: ecological network for arid communities in Australia (Honours Flinders University, ongoing)
Sofie Costin: population viability analyses for re-introduced native mammals (Honours Flinders University, ongoing)
Peter Hamnett: demographic model to support feral pig eradication on Kangaroo Island

Past student supervision

Claire Moore: habitat selection of the regent parrot MSc Flinders University, High Distinction, 2019)
Kathryn Venning: feral cat population models (Honours Flinders University, High distinction, 2018)

Topic lecturer

STEM2005 Innovation in STEM

BIOD7710 Honours Critical Reading

BIOL3703 PalaeoEcological Modelling

STEM2002 Solving problems with computers

BIOL7720 Honours Research Design & Statistics

BIOL1102 Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation

Supervisory interests

Climate-change modelling

Palaeo-ecology and palaeo-climate

Spatial ecology

Species distribution modelling