Catherine Yule
Position:
Professor of Ecology
Department:
Role:
Researcher
Topics:
- Agriculture & environment
- Carbon & environmental markets
- Nature based solutions
Research Institution:
Geographic Coverage:
International
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BIO
Cathy Yule is Professor of Ecology at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She lived and worked in SE Asia in Papua New Guinea, Borneo and Malaysia for over thirty years prior to returning to Australia in 2018.
Her multidisciplinary research focuses on the ecology of tropical and subtropical rivers, lakes and swamps, particularly peatlands, extreme and endangered ecosystems of global significance due to their vast carbon sequestration. Her research on regional peatlands focuses on ecosystem functioning studying carbon cycling, aquatic food webs, and microbial ecology of peat.