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Overview

Daniel Lunney is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Genetics, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of ecological and conservation issues. Key focus areas include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Environmental Conservation and Management, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, and Rangeland and Wildlife Management.

Daniel Lunney has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, with notable papers such as:

  • 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)
  • Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires (2023, Biological Conservation)
  • Factors that drive koala roadkill: an analysis across multiple scales in New South Wales, Australia (2022, Australian Mammalogy)
  • A 6-year study of mitigating koala roadkill during an upgrade of the Pacific Highway at Lindsay's cutting, Coffs Harbour New South Wales (2022, Australian Mammalogy)
  • Comparison of three methods of estimating the population size of an arboreal mammal in a fragmented rural landscape (2020, Wildlife Research)

Frequent co-authors involved in their research include Jonathan R. Rhodes, Scott Benitez Hetherington, Bradley Law, Carla L. Archibald, and Martin Predavec.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in Australian Zoologist, with 13 contributions, as well as Pacific Conservation Biology, Australian Mammalogy, Wildlife Research, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Wildlife disease prevalence in human-modified landscapes.

    Grant Brearley;Jonathan Rhodes;Adrian Bradley;Greg Baxter

  • Conservation of Australia's forest fauna

    Daniel Lunney

  • The importance of forest area and configuration relative to local habitat factors for conserving forest mammals: A case study of koalas in Queensland, Australia

    Clive A. McAlpine;Jonathan R. Rhodes;John G. Callaghan;Michiala E. Bowen

  • Overview, Critical Assessment, and Conservation Implications of Koala Distribution and Abundance

    Alistair Melzer;Frank Carrick;Peter Menkhorst;Daniel Lunney

  • A SPATIALLY EXPLICIT HABITAT SELECTION MODEL INCORPORATING HOME RANGE BEHAVIOR

    Jonathan R. Rhodes;Clive A. McAlpine;Daniel Lunney;Hugh P. Possingham

  • Conserving koalas: A review of the contrasting regional trends, outlooks and policy challenges

    Clive McAlpine;Daniel Lunney;Daniel Lunney;Alistair Melzer;Peter Menkhorst

  • The impact on native mammals of land-use changes and exotic species in the Bega district, New South Wales, since settlement

    Daniel Lunney;Tanya Leary

  • Conserving biodiversity: threats and solutions

    R A Bradstock;T D Auld;D A Keith;R T Kingsford

  • Roost Selection by Goulds Long-Eared Bat, Nyctophilus-Gouldi Tomes (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), in Logged Forest on the South Coast of New South-Wales

    D Lunney;J Barker;D Priddel;M Oconnell

  • Can multiscale models of species’ distribution be generalized from region to region? A case study of the koala

    C. A. McAlpine;J. R. Rhodes;M. E. Bowen;D. Lunney

  • Causes of the extinction of native mammals of the Western Division of New South Wales: an ecological interpretation of the nineteenth century historical record

    Daniel Lunney

  • Regional variation in habitat–occupancy thresholds: a warning for conservation planning

    Jonathan R. Rhodes;Jonathan R. Rhodes;John G. Callaghan;Clive A. McAlpine;Carol De Jong

  • 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 Other 99%: The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates

    Winston Ponder;Daniel Lunney

  • Drought-driven change in wildlife distribution and numbers: a case study of koalas in south west Queensland

    Leonie Seabrook;Clive McAlpine;Greg Baxter;Jonathan Rhodes

  • Effects of logging, fire and drought on possums and gliders in the coastal forests near Bega, NSW

    D. Lunney

  • Modeling species' distributions to improve conservation in semiurban landscapes : Koala case study

    Jonathan R. Rhodes;Jonathan R. Rhodes;Thorsten Wiegand;Clive A. Mcalpine;John Callaghan

  • The impact of fire and dogs on Koalas at Port Stephens, New South Wales, using population viability analysis

    Danial Lunney;Shaan Gresser;Lisa E. O'neill;Alison Matthews

  • Use of expert knowledge to elicit population trends for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

    Christine Adams-Hosking;Marissa F. McBride;Marissa F. McBride;Greg Baxter;Mark Burgman

  • Effects of logging and fire on small mammals in Mumbulla State Forest, near Bega, New South Wales

    Daniel Lunney;Brian R Cullis;Peggy Eby

  • Fire and conservation: imperatives and constraints on managing for diversity.

    R. A. Bradstock;D. A. Keith;T. D. Auld;R. T. Kingsford

Frequent Co-Authors

Clive McAlpine
Clive McAlpine University of Queensland
Jonathan R. Rhodes
Jonathan R. Rhodes University of Queensland
Chris R. Dickman
Chris R. Dickman University of Sydney
Richard T. Kingsford
Richard T. Kingsford University of New South Wales
Greg Baxter
Greg Baxter University of Queensland
Mathew S. Crowther
Mathew S. Crowther University of Sydney
Harry F. Recher
Harry F. Recher Edith Cowan University
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Bradley Law
Bradley Law New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Greg Brown
Greg Brown California Polytechnic State University

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