Saul Cunningham

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Prof Saul Cunningham

Director of the Fenner School of Environment & Society

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0703-6893
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Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
1991 …2025

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Biography

Saul's first experience of research was as an honours student at Monash University. He then received a Fulbright award to support Ph.D. studies in the USA with field work in Costa Rica. Having been awarded his Ph.D. in 1995 he returned home to Australia and commenced post-doctoral projects at Macquarie University, before joining CSIRO in Canberra as a research scientist. Over a 17 year period with CSIRO Saul developed a research program focusing on the challenge of maintaining biodiversity in landscapes dedicated to agricultural production. He has worked with farming industry groups, local landholder groups, and a wide network of international colleagues with shared interests.

In 2015 the Ecological Society of Australia honoured Saul with the "Australian Ecology Research Award". He was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) assessment report on Pollination and Food production, published in 2016. 

Saul has been director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society since 2017.

Qualifications

B.Sc. Hons (Zoology) Monash, Ph.D. (Ecology) University of Connecticut, USA

Research Interests

Saul Cunningham is interested in finding ways that we can manage farming landscapes to preserve biodiversity while supporting production. In pursuing this overarching challenge his work ranges across specific questions regarding the fundamental determinants of diversity, methods of ecological restoration, management to increase farm productivity, and more. He has worked extensively on crop pollination, which is an input to agricultural production that has been poorly understood and which generally depends on wild insects living in the agricultural landscape.

Areas of expertise

  • Applied ecology
  • Conservation biology
  • Crop pollination
  • Agricultural landscapes

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  • Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α- But Not β- and γ-Diversity of Bees

    Tsang, T. P. N., De Santis, A. A. A., Armas-Quiñonez, G., Ascher, J. S., Ávila-Gómez, E. S., Báldi, A., Ballare, K. M., Balzan, M. V., Banaszak-Cibicka, W., Bänsch, S., Basset, Y., Bates, A. J., Baumann, J. M., Beal-Neves, M., Bennett, A., Bezerra, A. D. M., Blochtein, B., Bommarco, R., Brosi, B., Burkle, L. A., & 124 othersCarvalheiro, L. G., Castellanos, I., Cely-Santos, M., Cohen, H., Coulibaly, D., Cunningham, S. A., Cusser, S., Dajoz, I., Delaney, D. A., Del-Val, E., Egerer, M., Eichhorn, M. P., Enríquez, E., Entling, M. H., Escobedo-Kenefic, N., Ferreira, P. M. A., Fitch, G., Forrest, J. R. K., Fournier, V., Fowler, R., Freitas, B. M., Gaines-Day, H. R., Geslin, B., Ghazoul, J., Glaum, P., Gonzalez-Andujar, J. L., González-Chaves, A., Grab, H., Gratton, C., Guenat, S., Gutiérrez-Chacón, C., Hall, M. A., Hanley, M. E., Hass, A., Hennig, E. I., Hermy, M., Hipólito, J., Holzschuh, A., Hopfenmüller, S., Hung, K. L. J., Hylander, K., Izquierdo, J., Jamieson, M. A., Jauker, B., Javorek, S., Jha, S., Klatt, B. K., Kleijn, D., Klein, A. M., Kovács-Hostyánszki, A., Krauss, J., Kuhlmann, M., Landaverde-González, P., Latty, T., Leong, M., Lerman, S. B., Liu, Y., Machado, A. C. P., Main, A., Mallinger, R., Mandelik, Y., Marques, B. F., Matteson, K., McCune, F., Meng, L. Z., Metzger, J. P., Montoya-Pfeiffer, P. M., Morales, C., Morandin, L., Morrison, J., Mudri-Stojnić, S., Nalinrachatakan, P., Norfolk, O., Otieno, M., Park, M. G., Philpott, S. M., Pisanty, G., Plascencia, M., Potts, S. G., Power, E. F., Prendergast, K., Quistberg, R. D., de Lacerda Ramos, D., Rech, A. R., Reynolds, V., Richards, M. H., Roberts, S. P. M., Sabatino, M., Samnegård, U., Sardiñas, H., Sánchez-Echeverría, K., Saturni, F. T., Scheper, J., Sciligo, A. R., Sidhu, C. S., Spiesman, B. J., Sritongchuay, T., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stein, K., Stewart, A. B., Stout, J. C., Taki, H., Tangtorwongsakul, P., Threlfall, C. G., Tinoco, C. F., Tscharntke, T., Turo, K. J., Vaidya, C., Vandame, R., Vergara, C. H., Viana, B. F., Vides-Borrell, E., Warrit, N., Webb, E., Westphal, C., Wickens, J. B., Williams, N. M., Williams, N. S. G., Wilson, C. J., Wu, P., Youngsteadt, E., Zou, Y., Ponisio, L. C. & Bonebrake, T. C., Jan 2025, In: Global Change Biology. 31, 1, p. e70006 18 p.

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    Open Access
    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Quantifying taxon-specific habitat connectivity requirements of urban wildlife using structured expert judgement

    Courtney Jones, S. K., O'Loughlin, L. S., Starrs, D., Humphrey, J. E., Pulsford, S. A., Allan, H., Beitzel, M., Birgen, K., Bond, S., Bounds, J., Bower, D., Brawata, R., Broadhurst, B., Carlson, E., Clulow, S., Cunningham, S., Dunn, L., Evans, L., Ferronato, B., Fletcher, D. B., & 34 othersGeorges, A., Gilpin, A. M., Hall, M. A., Hawkins, B., Hoeffer, A. M., Howland, B., Lettoof, D. C., Lintermans, M., Littlefair, M., Latty, T., Lavery, T. H., Lucas, Z., Madani, G., Maute, K., Milner, R. N. C., Nordberg, E. J., O'Loughlin, T., O'Reilly, W., O'Shea, M., Rayner, L., Ritchie, E. G., Robinson, N. M., Sarre, S. D., Saunders, M. E., Scheele, B. C., Seddon, J., Speirs, R., Spencer, R., Stirnemann, I., Watson, D. M., Wilson, B. A., Unmack, P. J., Zhao, Y. & Snape, M. A., May 2025, In: Biological Conservation. 305, 14 p., 110991.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Influence of climate, weather and floral associations on pollinator community composition across an elevational gradient

    Coates, J., Evans, M., Scheele, B., Encinas-Viso, F., Florez Fernandez, J., Lumbers, J. & Cunningham, S. A., Dec 2024, In: Oikos. 2024, 12, e10688.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access

  • Variation in pollen load composition carried by wild bee species in native and nearby agricultural environments in south-eastern Australia

    Brown, J., Burke, H., Stevenson, J. & Cunningham, S. A., 4 Jan 2024, In: Insect Conservation and Diversity. 17, 3, p. 543-550 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    2 Citations (Scopus)

  • Endangered Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) forage from local flowers after annual mass migration to alpine sites

    Coates, J. M., Keaney, B., Scheele, B. C. & Cunningham, S. A., 25 Apr 2023, In: Global Ecology and Conservation. 44, e02482.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
    5 Citations (Scopus)
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