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Overview

Barry J. Fox is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research lies primarily within the field of Environmental Science, with work spanning several related subfields such as Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in Fox's research include:

  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Fox's recent scientific publications demonstrate active contributions in understanding ecological processes and landscape dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • How habitat selection, succession, and assembly rules can influence landscape ecology in natural and disturbed areas, 2022, Therya
  • Editorial. Special Section in honor of Dr. William Z. Lidicker, Jr., 2022, Therya
  • Obituary: Dr. William Z. Lidicker, Jr. (1932-2022), 2022, Journal of Mammalogy

Fox frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Edward Heske
  • Richard S. Ostfeld
  • Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda
  • William F. Laurance

Barry J. Fox has published predominantly in the journals Therya and Journal of Mammalogy, with the majority of listed papers appearing in Therya. This indicates a focus on mammalogy and natural history within their ecological research.

Best Publications

  • Fire and Mammalian Secondary Succession in an Australian Coastal Heath

    Barry J. Fox

  • Assembly rules for functional groups in North American desert rodent communities

    Barry J. Fox;James H. Brown

  • Species assembly and the evolution of community structure

    Barry J. Fox

  • Changes to plant species richness in forest fragments: fragment age, disturbance and fire history may be as important as area

    Karen A. Ross;Barry J. Fox;Marilyn D. Fox

  • Small mammal succession is determined by vegetation density rather than time elapsed since disturbance

    Vaughan Monamy;Barry J. Fox

  • Vegetation changes across edges of rainforest remnants

    Barry J. Fox;Jennifer E. Taylor;Marilyn D. Fox;Carole Williams

  • Factors determining mammal species richness on habitat islands and isolates: habitat diversity, disturbance, species interactions and guild assembly rules

    Barry J. Fox;Marilyn D. Fox

  • Changes in the structure of mammal communities over successional time scales

    Barry J. Fox

  • Assembly Rules: Desert Rodent Communities Are Structured at Scales from Local to Continental

    James H. Brown;Barry J. Fox;Douglas A. Kelt

  • Experimental manipulation of habitat structure: a retrogression of the small mammal succession

    Barry J. Fox;Jennifer E. Taylor;Peter T. Thompson

  • LITTER ACCUMULATION AFTER FIRE IN A EUCALYPT FOREST

    BJ Fox;Fox;GM Mckay

  • The effects of fragmentation and disturbance of rainforest on ground-dwelling small mammals on the Robertson Plateau, New South Wales, Australia

    Catherine Dunstan;Barry Fox

  • Small mammal responses to pyric successional changes in eucalypt forest

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  • Local population structure of a naturally occurring metapopulation of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus Macropodidae: Marsupialia)

    Matt W. Hayward;Paul J. de Tores;Michael J. Dillon;Barry J. Fox

  • Resilience of animal and plant communities to human disturbance

    B. J. Fox;M. D. Fox

  • Small‐mammal recolonization of open‐forest following sand mining

    Barry J. Fox;Marilyn D. Fox

  • Separating the influences of environment and species interactions on patterns of distribution and abundance: competition between large herbivores.

    Euan G. Ritchie;Jennifer K. Martin;Jennifer K. Martin;Christopher N. Johnson;Barry J. Fox

  • Niche Parameters and Species Richness

    Barry J. Fox

  • The effect of fire frequency on the structure and floristic composition of a woodland understorey

    Marilyn D. Fox;Barry J. Fox

  • An assembly rule for functional groups applied to North American soricid communities

    Barry J. Fox;Barry J. Fox;Gordon L. Kirkland;Gordon L. Kirkland

  • Interspecific competition: A mechanism for rodent succession after fire in wet heathland

    Peter Higgs;Barry J. Fox

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Brown
James H. Brown University of New Mexico
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Peter B. Banks
Peter B. Banks University of Sydney
Douglas A. Kelt
Douglas A. Kelt University of California, Davis
Douglas W. Morris
Douglas W. Morris Lakehead University
Mark D. B. Eldridge
Mark D. B. Eldridge Australian Museum
Mike Letnic
Mike Letnic University of New South Wales
Christopher N. Johnson
Christopher N. Johnson University of Tasmania
Euan G. Ritchie
Euan G. Ritchie Deakin University

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