Acknowledgements – In Savage Australia
Dr Ian Abbott wrote the Foreword and the Appendix on Fauna for In Savage Australia. An ecologist with wide field experience in western and eastern Australia and the Galápagos, he has degrees from the University of Sydney, Monash University, and the University of Western Australia. Dr Abbott has expertise in biogeography, island, forest and historical ecology, and ecological history, as well as expert knowledge of trees, invertebrates, birds and mammals. Since his first scientific paper in 1970, he has published over 240 papers.