About the Editors

Sarah is a Professor at Charles Darwin University, and an honorary Professor at the Australian National University. Her research aims to understand the impacts of threats on biodiversity, and to develop ways to address those threats. She has special interests in fire ecology and management, the impacts and management of feral cats, recovering threatened species, and designing large-scale adaptive management and monitoring programs. Much of this work is carried out collaboratively with on-ground managers from government, non-government, and Indigenous land management sectors.

Phil Stephens is a Professor of Ecology at Durham University in the UK. His interests are principally in vertebrate behaviour, ecology, population dynamics, management and conservation. A long-running interest is in the concept of rarity, its drivers and the extent to which it can be tolerated by different populations. A particular focus of current research is mammal monitoring, through the citizen science project MammalWeb. This project draws together research spanning ecology, computer science, anthropology and mathematics, and is focused on data of value to research, management and conservation.

Aaron Wirsing is a Professor of Wildlife Science in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), where he is head of the Predator Ecology Lab. His research program addresses the ecology and conservation of large predators in both aquatic and terrestrial systems, with particular emphasis on the nature and consequences of non-consumptive (behavioural) interactions between these species and their prey.