Research output per year
Research output per year
Distinguished Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society
Research activity per year
Professor David Lindenmayer is a world-leading expert in forest ecology and resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. He currently runs 5 large-scale, long-term research programs in south-eastern Australia, primarily associated with developing ways to conserve biodiversity in farmland, wood production forests, plantations, and reserves. He has maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 42 years in duration.
Professor Lindenmayer has published more than 1442 scientific works, including 929 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. He has also published 49 books, including many award winning textbooks and other seminal books. Furthermore, David is among the world's most productive and most highly-cited scientists, particularly in forest ecology and conservation biology. He has a Google Scholar H-Index of 150 with a total of 96,820 citations as of June 2024. He was included in the 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, and 2014 Clarivate Highly Cited Lists. Between 2004 and 2024, David Lindenmayer was listed among the top 2000 Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to Google Scholar Citations public profiles across all disciplines. In 2017 he was listed in the top 50 Australian scientists across all disciplines. Professor Lindenmayer is a member of an elite group of 0.5% of scientists globally that have published >10 peer-reviewed scientific articles in international journals annually each year for the past decade. In 2020, 2021 and 2022, The Australian newspaper listed the 30 leading Australian scientists, and Lindenmayer was listed as the leading conservation and biodiversity expert in the nation.
Professor Lindenmayer held a prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow from 2013-2018. 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, Fellow of the American Academy of Science, and 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. In 2022 he was elected a a Fellow of the NSW Royal Zoological Society.
Professor Lindenmayer has recently published an important book - The Forest Wars: The ugly truth about what's happening in our tall forests. This book lifts the lid on the destruction of native forests by government corporations and logging industry that is making bushfires worse, killing wildlife and costing taxpayers millions, for the sake of exported woodchips.
BSc, DipEd, PhD, DSc, FAA, FESA, FRZS, FAAS, AO
Landscape restoration and remnant native vegetation
Integrated forest use, wildlife conservation and ecologically sustainability
Habitat fragmentation and retained systems in wood production forests
Sampling methodology for forest vertebrates
Species responses to vegetation types and ecological burning practices
Re-introduction biology
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1/05/23 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
Young, M., Ansell, D., Butler, D., Crane, C., Evans, J., Florance, D., Harris, T., Lang, E. & Lindenmayer, D.
1/10/23 → 30/09/28
Project: Research
Lindenmayer, D. & MacGregor, C.
21/10/22 → 21/10/27
Project: Research
Youngentob, K., Gracanin, A., Lindenmayer, D. & Marsh, K.
19/01/24 → 17/01/25
Project: Research
2/12/22 → 30/06/24
Project: Research