Professor David Dudgeon (Chair Professor, School of Biological Sciences)
Ph.D. (Hong Kong)

Fields of interest
Ecology and conservation of freshwater biodiversity, energy flow and feeding interactions in forest streams, environmental water allocations for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

David Dudgeon has spent the last 25 years at The University of Hong Kong researching the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of the animals that inhabit the streams and rivers monsoonal Asia. He is the author of over 150 articles in international journals, book chapters and books (see below), and has supervised more than 30 research postgraduate students. Dudgeon is a committee member of the Freshwater Cross-cutting Network of DIVERSITAS, and sits on the editorial boards of five international journals. He was awarded the Biwako Prize in Ecology by the Japanese Government in 2000 in recognition of his contributions to freshwater ecology and conservation in Asia. Dudgeon is currently Chairman of the Board of the Faculty of Science at Hong Kong University, and is a Trustee of WWF (HK).

PDFs of Tropical Asian Streams and Hills and Streams: an Ecology of Hong Kong are available here and here. Both of these books can be ordered from Hong Kong University Press. Copies of two more recent books, a field guide to Hong Kong streams and The Ecology and Biodiversity of Hong Kong (coauthored with Richard Corlett), are available for purchase from the publishers.