Peter Menkhorst

Peter Menkhorst PSM is an Australian ecologist and an authority on Australian mammals and birds. He is experienced in wildlife management, including management of over-abundant Koalas, and in threatened species recovery; he has developed recovery plans and led recovery teams for a number of species including the Orange-bellied Parrot; Helmeted Honeyeater, Regent Honeyeater, Mountain Pygmy Possum and Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby. Menkhorst is also a natural history author and recently co-authored The Australian Bird Guide.

Orange-bellied Parrot
Peter Menkhorst
NationalityAustralian
EducationBSc Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
OccupationEcologist
OrganizationVictorian Government
Notable work
Mammals of Victoria: distribution, ecology, conservation. Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia. The Australian Bird Guide

Career

Menkhorst graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science from Monash University majoring in Botany and Zoology. He has over 40 years experience in fauna survey and ecological research conducted for the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning and its predecessors.[1] In 2018 he was a program leader in the Community Ecology Section at the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (ARI), leading the Waterbird and Wetland Program.[2]

The Waterbird and Wetland program is collecting and analysing long time-series of data from natural and artificial wetlands across Victoria including Western Port, Port Phillip, Western Treatment Plant and Murray Valley to understand the impact of weather patterns and management of land and water on bird populations.[3] The aim is to understand these systems and in doing so help improve conservation outcomes. The team also assists in the management of Duck Hunting in Victoria[4]


Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby

Publications

Menkhorst has authored or co-authored field guides to both the birds and the mammals of Australia and has written many scientific papers and unpublished reports - see Google Scholar or Research Gate.

Books by Peter Menkhorst Include:

Menkhorst has also reviewed numerous books for Australian Book Review.[8] Titles reviewed include: Sentinel Chicken by Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty, Where Songs Began by Tim Low[9] and Platypus by Ann Moyal.[10]

Awards

References
  1. Environment, Peter MenkhorstArthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research · Department of; L; Water; Science, Planning 28 10 · Bachelor of; 1973, Monash University; Zoology, Joint Major in; botany. "Peter Menkhorst | Bachelor of Science, Monash University 1973, joint major in zoology and botany | Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-08-06.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. "Staff". Arthur Rylah Institute. 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  3. "Peter Menkhorst's Lab". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  4. "Hunter's Bag Survey: 2016 Victorian duck hunting season" (PDF). 2016-06-30.
  5. Menkhorst, Peter, ed. (1995). Mammals of Victoria : Ecology, Distribution and Conservation. Oxford University Press Australia. ISBN 0195540166.
  6. Menkhorst, Peter (2011). Field Guide to Mammals of Australia (Third, revised ed.). Oxford University Press Australia. ISBN 978-0195573954.
  7. The Australian Bird Guide. CSIRO Publishing. 2017. ISBN 978-0643097544.
  8. "Peter Menkhorst". www.australianbookreview.com.au. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  9. Menkhorst, Peter. "'Where Song Began' by Tim Low". Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  10. Menkhorst, Peter. "Ann Moyal: Platypus". Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  11. Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (1884). The victorian naturalist. Museum Victoria. South Yarra, [Vic.] : Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. pp. 4, 5.
  12. "Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales | Whitley Award Winners". Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  • Arthur Rylah (28 June 2018). "Staff". Arthur Rylah Institute. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  • "Peter Menkhorst". Australianbookreview.com.au. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
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