Ardian Ardiantiono

Ardian completed his Postgraduate Diploma in International Wildlife Conservation Practice at the University of Oxford. Before he started his PhD study, he worked with a Wildlife Conservation Society-Indonesia Program and Komodo Survival Program to monitor Sumatran tiger and hornbill populations in protected areas and to document lessons learned and propose strategies for human-wildlife coexistence programs involving tiger, elephant, and Komodo dragon.  

PhD project

Ardian’s thesis is entitled “The patterns and processes of defaunation in Java and Sumatra, Indonesia”, and contributes to a Leverhulme-funded project led by Dr Matthew Struebig.

“My research identifies the trends and drivers of tropical terrestrial vertebrate population dynamics in the past, present, and future. The first part of my research will utilize the existing ecological data (camera trap, wildlife sign survey, protection patrol data) to understand how wildlife populations respond to landscape changes and anthropogenic pressures in one of the largest tropical forest landscapes in Sumatra Island, Indonesia. The next part would be exploring deep into the human dimension to understand motivations that drive someone to conduct activities that might influence wildlife populations. Last, I will dive into the policy aspect where I will combine socio-ecological information generated from this study to predict the future of wildlife persistence under various economic development and conservation scenarios."

Supervisors

• Dr Joseph William Bull (1st supervisor)
• Dr Matthew Struebig (2nd supervisor)