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Damian Michael is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and specializes in environmental science, with a significant focus on ecology. Their research encompasses various subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics, notably wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, amphibian and reptile biology, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, and fish ecology and management studies.

Damian Michael has contributed to numerous publications across several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include Austral Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Wildlife Research, Australian Zoologist, and Biological Conservation.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time-bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019-2020 Australian megafires, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions, 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?, 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction, 2020, Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk, 2021, Biological Conservation

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their research activities, with frequent co-authors including Dale G. Nimmo, Skye Wassens, Chris J. Jolly, James M. Turner, and David G. Chapple. These collaborations have collectively contributed to the breadth of knowledge in their fields of study.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Reptile and arboreal marsupial response to replanted vegetation in agricultural landscapes.

    Ross B. Cunningham;David B. Lindenmayer;Mason Crane;Damian Michael

  • What makes an effective restoration planting for woodland birds

    David Lindenmayer;Emma Knight;Mason Crane;Rebecca Montague-Drake

  • Are nest boxes a viable alternative source of cavities for hollow-dependent animals? Long-term monitoring of nest box occupancy, pest use and attrition

    David B. Lindenmayer;Alan Welsh;Christine Donnelly;Mason Crane

  • Rocky outcrops: A hard road in the conservation of critical habitats

    James A. Fitzsimons;James A. Fitzsimons;Damian R. Michael

  • How predictable are reptile responses to wildfire

    David B. Lindenmayer;Jeff T. Wood;Christopher MacGregor;Damian R. Michael

  • The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

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  • The combined effects of remnant vegetation and tree planting on farmland birds.

    Ross B. Cunningham;David B. Lindenmayer;Mason Crane;Damian Michael

  • The ecological role of logs in Australian forests and the potential impacts of harvesting intensification on log-using biota

    David Lindenmayer;A Claridge;Adam Gilmore;Damian Michael

  • Contrasting mammal responses to vegetation type and fire

    D. B. Lindenmayer;C. MacGregor;A. Welsh;C. Donnelly

  • A forgotten habitat? Granite inselbergs conserve reptile diversity in fragmented agricultural landscapes

    Damian R. Michael;Ross B. Cunningham;David B. Lindenmayer

  • Not All Kinds of Revegetation Are Created Equal: Revegetation Type Influences Bird Assemblages in Threatened Australian Woodland Ecosystems

    David B. Lindenmayer;Amanda R. Northrop-Mackie;Rebecca Montague-Drake;Mason Crane

  • Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;John C.Z. Woinarski;Ben C. Scheele;Stephen T. Garnett

  • Testing hypotheses associated with bird responses to wildfire.

    David B. Lindenmayer;Jeff T. Wood;Ross B. Cunningham;Christopher MacGregor

  • TEMPORAL CHANGES IN VERTEBRATES DURING LANDSCAPE TRANSFORMATION: A LARGE-SCALE ''NATURAL EXPERIMENT''

    David B. Lindenmayer;Ross B. Cunningham;Christopher MacGregor;Mason Crane

  • Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science?

    Mitchell A. Cowan;Michael N. Callan;Maggie J. Watson;David M. Watson

  • Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates

    Reid Tingley;Stewart L. Macdonald;Nicola J. Mitchell;John C.Z. Woinarski

  • Cross-sectional vs. longitudinal research: a case study of trees with hollows and marsupials in Australian forests

    David Lindenmayer;Jeffrey Wood;Lachlan McBurney;Damian Michael

  • The law of diminishing returns: woodland birds respond to native vegetation cover at multiple spatial scales and over time

    Ross B. Cunningham;David B. Lindenmayer;Mason Crane;Damian R. Michael

  • Enhancing fauna habitat in grazed native grasslands and woodlands: use of artificially placed log refuges by fauna

    Damian R. Michael;Ian D. Lunt;Wayne A. Robinson

  • The use of nest boxes by arboreal marsupials in the forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria

    D. B. Lindenmayer;C. I. MacGregor;R. B. Cunningham;R. D. Incoll

  • Richness is not all: how changes in avian functional diversity reflect major landscape modification caused by pine plantations

    David Lindenmayer;Wade Blanchard;Philip Tennant;Philip Barton

  • Woodlands: A Disappearing Landscape

    D. Lindenmayer;M. Crane;D. Michael

  • An experiment to test key hypotheses of the drivers of reptile distribution in subalpine ski resorts

    Chloe F. Sato;Jeff T. Wood;Mellesa Schroder;Ken Green

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Mason Crane
Mason Crane Australian National University
Ross B. Cunningham
Ross B. Cunningham Australian National University
Jeffrey Wood
Jeffrey Wood Australian National University
Philip S. Barton
Philip S. Barton Deakin University
Philip Gibbons
Philip Gibbons Australian National University
Dale G. Nimmo
Dale G. Nimmo Charles Sturt University
Wade Blanchard
Wade Blanchard Australian National University
David G. Chapple
David G. Chapple Monash University
Ben C. Scheele
Ben C. Scheele Australian National University

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