Professor David Lindenmayer AO - 'A 25-year experiment to document the effects of large-scale plantation transformation on forest biodiversity'

David, from the Fenner School of Environment and Society, will highlight the effects and challenges of plantations on forest biodiversity.

Biography

David is a world-leading expert in forest and woodland ecology, resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. He has maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 42 years in duration. He is among the world's most productive and most highly-cited scientists, particularly in forest ecology and conservation biology and has published 1490 scientific articles including 950 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. He has also published 49 books, including many award-winning textbooks and other seminal books.

David held a prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship from 2013-2018, where he worked on biodiversity indices, metrics and proxies. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (elected 2008), a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (elected in 2019), Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW (elected 2022), and Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences (elected 2023). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2014. His research has been recognised through numerous awards, including the Eureka Science Prize (three times), Whitley Award (10 times), the Serventy Medal for Ornithology, and the Australian Natural History Medallion. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious Whittaker Medal from the Ecological Society of America. He was awarded the Macfarlane Burnett Medal for Life Sciences by the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2024.

Bookings open Friday 7 March 2025

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