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D-Index
50
Citations
12077
World Ranking
3781
National Ranking
286

Overview

Adrian D. Manning is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant contribution to Ecology and its subfields.

The subfields of study covered by their work include:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Their key research topics encompass:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Manning has published recent papers including:

  • "Rewilding Lite: Using Traditional Domestic Livestock to Achieve Rewilding Outcomes" (2021) in Sustainability
  • "Domestic Livestock and Rewilding: Are They Mutually Exclusive?" (2021) in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • "Adapting reintroduction tactics in successive trials increases the likelihood of establishment for an endangered carnivore in a fenced sanctuary" (2020) in PLoS ONE
  • "The 'Goldilocks Zone' of predation: the level of fox control needed to select predator resistance in a reintroduced mammal in Australia" (2021) in Biodiversity and Conservation
  • "Trends in animal translocation research" (2023) in Ecography

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Manning include:

  • Iain J. Gordon
  • Maldwyn J. Evans
  • Belinda A. Wilson
  • Jenny Newport
  • Jennifer C. Pierson

Their research has appeared repeatedly in several academic venues, such as:

  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Biological Conservation
  • PLoS ONE
  • Ecography

Best Publications

  • Scattered trees are keystone structures – Implications for conservation

    Adrian D. Manning;Joern Fischer;David B. Lindenmayer

  • A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

    David Lindenmayer;Richard J. Hobbs;Rebecca Montague-Drake;Jason Alexandra

  • Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife‐friendly farming?

    Joern Fischer;Berry Brosi;Gretchen C Daily;Paul R Ehrlich

  • Biodiversity, ecosystem function, and resilience: ten guiding principles for commodity production landscapes

    Joern Fischer;David B. Lindenmayer;Adrian D. Manning

  • The role of carrion in maintaining biodiversity and ecological processes in terrestrial ecosystems.

    Philip S. Barton;Saul A. Cunningham;David B. Lindenmayer;Adrian D. Manning

  • The focal-species approach and landscape restoration: A critique

    David Lindenmayer;Adrian Manning;Peter Smith;Hugh P Possingham

  • New Policies for Old Trees: Averting a Global Crisis in a Keystone Ecological Structure

    David B. Lindenmayer;William F. Laurance;Jerry F. Franklin;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens

  • Large trees are keystone structures in urban parks

    Karen Stagoll;David B. Lindenmayer;Emma Knight;Joern Fischer;Joern Fischer

  • The Future of Scattered Trees in Agricultural Landscapes

    Philip Gibbons;David Lindenmayer;Joern Fischer;Adrian Manning

  • Mind the sustainability gap

    Joern Fischer;Adrian D. Manning;Will Steffen;Deborah B. Rose

  • The spatial scaling of beta diversity

    Philip S. Barton;Philip S. Barton;Saul A. Cunningham;Adrian D. Manning;Heloise Gibb

  • Continua and Umwelt: novel perspectives on viewing landscapes

    Adrian Manning;David Lindenmayer;Henry A Nix

  • Havens for threatened Australian mammals: the contributions of fenced areas and offshore islands to the protection of mammal species susceptible to introduced predators

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;John C. Z. Woinarski;Andrew A. Burbidge;Russell Palmer

  • The conservation value of oil palm plantation estates, smallholdings and logged peat swamp forest for birds

    Badrul Azhar;Badrul Azhar;David B. Lindenmayer;Jeff Wood;Joern Fischer

  • Scattered trees: a complementary strategy for facilitating adaptive responses to climate change in modified landscapes?

    Adrian D. Manning;Philip Gibbons;David B. Lindenmayer

  • Novel ecosystems resulting from landscape transformation create dilemmas for modern conservation practice

    David B. Lindenmayer;Joern Fischer;Adam Felton;Mason Crane

  • REVIEW: Translocation tactics: a framework to support the IUCN Guidelines for wildlife translocations and improve the quality of applied methods

    William G. Batson;Iain J. Gordon;Iain J. Gordon;Donald B. Fletcher;Adrian D. Manning

  • The future of large old trees in urban landscapes.

    Darren S. Le Roux;Karen Ikin;David B. Lindenmayer;Adrian D. Manning

  • The influence of agricultural system, stand structural complexity and landscape context on foraging birds in oil palm landscapes

    Badrul Azhar (Sharif);Badrul Azhar (Sharif);David Lindenmayer;Jeffrey Wood;Joern Fischer

  • Hollow futures? Tree decline, lag effects and hollow-dependent species

    Adrian Manning;Philip Gibbons;Joem Fischer;D. L. Oliver

  • Stretch goals and backcasting: Approaches for overcoming barriers to large-scale ecological restoration

    Adrian D. Manning;David B. Lindenmayer;Joern Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Joern Fischer
Joern Fischer Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Philip S. Barton
Philip S. Barton Deakin University
Iain J. Gordon
Iain J. Gordon James Hutton Institute
Saul A. Cunningham
Saul A. Cunningham Australian National University
Sue McIntyre
Sue McIntyre Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Philip Gibbons
Philip Gibbons Australian National University
Heloise Gibb
Heloise Gibb La Trobe University
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
Ross B. Cunningham
Ross B. Cunningham Australian National University

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