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Prof Saul Cunningham

Director of the Fenner School of Environment & Society

 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0703-6893
1991 …2026

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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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  • Remote-sensing methods for mapping eucalypt dieback: A systematic review

    Charerntantanakul, W., Burley, J. T., Yebra, M., Nicotra, A. B., Cunningham, S. A. & Brookhouse, M. T., Jan 2026, In: Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. 41, p. 1-13 13 p., 101908.

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

    Open Access

  • Forest cover and canopy health mapping in Australian subalpine landscape: supervised machine learning models for Sentinel-2 and Landsat images

    Charerntantanakul, W., Yebra, M., Dawson, H. R., Nicotra, A. B., Cunningham, S. A. & Brookhouse, M. T., 2025, In: GIScience and Remote Sensing. 62, 1, 18 p., 2517922.

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

    Open Access
    5 Citations (Scopus)

  • 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 others, Carvalheiro, 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.

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

    Open Access
    15 Citations (Scopus)

  • Large urban trees are keystone structures for Australian microbats

    Parsons, C. R., Evans, M. J., Le Roux, D. S., Cunningham, S. A., Law, B. & Gibbons, P., Jun 2025, In: Biological Conservation. 306, p. 1-11 11 p., 111146.

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

    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 others, Georges, 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

    2 Citations (Scopus)
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