Professor David Lindenmayer
Contacts
David Lindenmayer is a landscape ecologist and conservation biologist specialising in:
- forest ecology and management
- habitat fragmentation
- applied wildlife and conservation management
- landscape ecology and natural resource management
- the ecology and conservation of arboreal marsupials
- integrated wildlife management and timber production
- the effectiveness of wildlife corridors and areas of retained vegetation for the conservation of forest dependent fauna
- endangered species conservation and management
- population viability analysis (PVA) and extinction risk assessment
- fire effects on vertebrates
- the effectiveness of landscape restoration for biodiversity
- woodland conservation and restoration.
Research interests
Landscape restoration and remnant native vegetation
- A major restoration experiment in the Riverina and western Murray regions of southern Australia – studies of birds, small mammals, frogs, reptiles and arboreal marsupials.
- Tests of the applicability of the focal species and other surrogate approaches in restoration
Integrated forest use, wildlife conservation and ecologically sustainability
- The ontogeny and process of the development of cavities in ash-type eucalypt trees and its implications for the conservation of hollow-dependent fauna.
- The importance of forest structure in ecologically sustainable forestry
- The impact of forest fragmentation on forest fauna inhabiting intensively-used wood production areas.
- Integration of resource economic analysis and ecological data to assess the efficacy of various forest management options.
- Performance measures for models of wildlife habitat and nest tree suitability.
- Genetic variability, dispersal behaviour, metapopulation dynamics, forest fragmentation and the conservation of mammals.
- The effects of clearfelling practices on the development of policies for the ecologically sustainable use of forest resources.
- The value for generic models for integrating wildlife conservation and timber harvesting.
- Associations of species of arboreal marsupials and the use of management indicator species in forest conservation.
- Morphometric, genetic and parasitological changes along a latitudinal gradient in the Mountain Brushtail Possum.
Habitat fragmentation and retained systems in wood production forests
- Major fragmentation natural experiments in the Tumut and Nanangroe regions of southern Australia – studies of birds, small mammals, frogs, weeds, reptiles and arboreal marsupials.
- The importance of systems of retained vegetation for the conservation of forest vertebrate fauna.
- Distribution and abundance of birds, small mammals & arboreal marsupials in habitat fragments.
- Edge effects and its impacts on the deterioration of retained systems in timber production forests.
Sampling methodology for forest vertebrates
- Comparisons of sampling methods for birds, arboreal marsupials and small mammals.
Species responses to vegetation types and ecological burning practices
- Major ecological burning and vegetation type response study – for vertebrates (mammals, birds and reptiles) at Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, south-eastern Australia
- Major studies of post-fire ecological recovery following major wildfires in Victorian in 2009 – builds upon 30 years of past research in the montane ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria
Re-introduction biology
- The application of simulation and other modelling approaches in captive breeding and reintroduction.
- The role and importance of disease in reintroduction biology and captive breeding programs.
Groups
- Researcher, Earth systems
- Researcher, Biodiversity
- Researcher, Water and flooding