About the Author

David Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, the Australian National University. He has written more than 990 scientific articles (including 520 papers in peer-reviewed international journals) and 41 books on forest ecology and management, forest and woodland biodiversity, conservation in agricultural landscapes, the ecology and management of fire, and conservation science and natural resource management. He is one of the most highly cited ecological scientists in the world (listed in the top 0.1% in his field) and one of less than 1% of >15 million scientists globally that publish more than 10 peer-reviewed articles annually. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and the New York Academy of Science, winner of the Eureka Prize (twice), Whitley Award (six times), the Australian Natural History Medal, the Serventy Medal for Ornithology and numerous other awards. David was awarded a prestigious 5-year Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in 2013 and an Order of Australia in 2014. He currently runs five large-scale, long-term research programs in south-eastern Australia, primarily associated with developing ways to conserve biodiversity in reserves, national parks, wood production forests, plantations and on farm land.