About Professor David Lindenmayer

Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Conservation Biology,
Australian National University
David is a world-leading expert in forest and woodland ecology and conservation biology. He has maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 42 years in duration, and developed expertise in forest biodiversity, logging impacts, salvage logging, plantation design, biodiversity in plantations, and multiple disturbance interactions. Professor Lindenmayer is among the world’s most productive and most highly-cited scientists and has published 49 books and 1505 scientific articles including more than 955 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. David Lindenmayer was an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow from 2013–2018. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Ecological Society of America, the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, and the American Academy of Sciences. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2014.