Francisco Sánchez-Bayo is an

environmental scientist Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...

and

ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's ...

. The author or co-author of over 80 articles and book chapters, Sánchez-Bayo's research interests have focused on the ecological effects of pesticides. In 2019 he was the lead author of a study that predicted the large-scale extinction of insect species."Insect population faces 'catastrophic' collapse: Sydney research"
University of Sydney, 12 February 2019. He serves on the board of associate editors of the journal ''

Entomologia Generalis ''Entomologia Generalis'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering general and applied entomology. Established in 1978 as ''Entomologica Germanica'' by German entomologist Wilhelm August Steffan, the journal publishes original research on ...

''.

Early life and education

Born in

Candelario Candelario is a municipality located in the province of Salamanca Salamanca () is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León (Castilla y León). It is bordered by the provinces of Zamora, Va ...

, Spain, Sánchez-Bayo got his master's degree in environmental sciences at the

Autonomous University of Madrid The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous Univers ...

(UAM) in 1980, and his doctorate in ecology in 1985, also at UAM, for a thesis entitled "Analysis of the spatial and temporal organisation of a bird community in riverine forests of the Duero basin". In 1990 he received a diploma in applied science, specializing in arid lands management, from the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensiv ...

Career

Sánchez-Bayo worked as an assistant professor at

Chiba University is a national university in the city of Chiba, Japan. It offers Doctoral degrees in education as part of a coalition with Tokyo Gakugei University, Saitama University, and Yokohama National University. The university was formed in 1949 from e ...

in Japan for five years from 2001, before taking up a position at the Centre for Ecotoxicology in the Office of the Environment & Heritage of New South Wales, Australia. As of February 2019 he is an honorary associate at the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney. Sánchez-Bayo was the lead author of a study published in the journal ''

Biological Conservation Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an int ...

'' in 2019 that indicated there has been a dramatic

decline in insect populations An increasing number of scientific studies are reporting substantial declines in insect populations worldwide. Most commonly, the declines involve reductions in abundance, though in some cases entire species are going extinct. The declines are f ...

and predicting the large-scale extinction of insect species, as a result of "the loss of habitat, due to agricultural practices, urbanisation and deforestation".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sánchez-Bayo, Francisco Living people Spanish emigrants to Australia Spanish ecologists Spanish scientists University of Sydney faculty Year of birth missing (living people)