By professional training Geoff Williams is a conservation biologist with a specialist scientific background in plant ecology, rainforest restoration and entomology. He holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales and is currently an honorary Research Associate with the Australian Museum, Sydney. He was awarded an Order of Australia Medal and made a Member of the Order of Australia for contributions to research into, and conservation of ,Australia’s biodiversity’.

His publications include scientific papers and popular articles on the pollination of rainforest plants, invertebrate taxonomy and biogeography, the natural attributes of Australia’s World Heritage areas, and the management and rehabilitation of threatened ecosystems. In 1994 his non-fiction book Hidden Rainforests: subtropical rainforests and their invertebrate biodiversity (UNSW Press) was a finalist for the Eureka National Science Book Award.

A cross-section of his publications includes:

The Invertebrate World of Australia’s Subtropical Rainforests, 2020.
https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/7948/

The Flowering of Australia’s Rainforests (2nd Ed): Pollination Ecology and Plant Evolution, 2021. https://publish.csiro.au/book/7996/

A Revision of the genus Nascioides Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 1987.

Hidden Rainforests: subtropical rainforests and their invertebrate biodiversity, New South Wales University Press, 1993.

A Review of Rainforest Pollination and Plant-Pollinator interactions with particular reference to Australian Subtropical Rainforests. Australian Zoologist, 1994.

Pollination Ecology of Australian Subtropical Rainforests: implications for the conservation of remnant lowland communities (G Williams and P Adam). in Rainforest Remnants: a decade of Growth. Proceedings of the Rainforest Restoration Conference, Lismore 1998.   NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, 1999.

A Taxonomic and Biogeographic Review of the Invertebrates of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia (CERRA) World Heritage Area, and adjacent regions. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum, No. 16, 2002.

The Invertebrates: Insects, Crustaceans, Arachnids, Snails and Worms (G Williams and D Bickel), in Remnants of Gondwana, Surrey Beatty and Sons, 2010.

A Summary of the Published data on host plants and morphology of immature stages of Australian Jewel Beetles (Buprestidae) (C Bellamy, G Williams, J Hasenpusch, A  Sundholm). Insecta Mundi, 2013.

Numerous additional references are available online under the search heading ‘Lorien Wildlife Refuge’.