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43
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5375
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435

Overview

David M. Watson is affiliated with Charles Sturt University in Australia. Their research spans several fields, primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses on multiple subfields including Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Developmental Biology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics in David M. Watson's research include:

  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

The scientist has contributed to various publications, frequently collaborating with colleagues such as Paul Roe, Paul G. McDonald, Maggie J. Watson, Damian Michael, and Dale G. Nimmo.

David M. Watson's work has been published in multiple venues, with recurring publication in:

  • Botany
  • Austral Ecology
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecology and Evolution

Notable recent papers include:

  • The Australian Acoustic Observatory (2021), published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science? (2021), published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • The bright side of parasitic plants: what are they good for? (2020), published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Headache characteristics and burden from chronic migraine with medication overuse headache: Cross-sectional observations from the Medication Overuse Treatment Strategy trial (2021), published in Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • Climate change can disrupt ecological interactions in mysterious ways: Using ecological generalists to forecast community-wide effects (2021), published in Climate Change Ecology

They have also published a book titled Is economic growth compatible with a sustainable Nordic future? (2021) through the publisher TemaNord.

Best Publications

  • MISTLETOE-A KEYSTONE RESOURCE IN FORESTS AND WOODLANDS WORLDWIDE

    David M. Watson

  • Mistletoes: Pathology, Systematics, Ecology, and Management

    Robert L. Mathiasen;Daniel L. Nickrent;David C. Shaw;David M. Watson

  • Structured elicitation of expert judgments for threatened species assessment: a case study on a continental scale using email

    Marissa F McBride;Stephen T Garnett;Judit K Szabo;Allan H Burbidge;Allan H Burbidge

  • A conceptual framework for studying species composition in fragments, islands and other patchy ecosystems

    David M. Watson

  • Mistletoe as a keystone resource: an experimental test

    David M. Watson;Matthew Herring

  • Parasitic plants as facilitators: more Dryad than Dracula?

    David M. Watson

  • The 'standardized search': An improved way to conduct bird surveys

    David M. Watson

  • A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food

    David M. Watson

  • Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity.

    Mads S. Thomsen;Mads S. Thomsen;Andrew H. Altieri;Andrew H. Altieri;Christine Angelini;Melanie J. Bishop

  • Problems with areal definitions of endemism: the effects of spatial scaling

    A. Townsend Peterson;David M. Watson

  • Nutritional composition of the preferred prey of insectivorous birds: popularity reflects quality

    Emma Razeng;David M. Watson

  • Land-use change: incorporating the frequency, sequence, time span, and magnitude of changes into ecological research

    Simon J Watson;Gary W Luck;Peter G Spooner;David M Watson

  • Comparison of dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium spp., Viscaceae) in the western United States with mistletoes (Amyema spp., Loranthaceae) in Australia—ecological analogs and reciprocal models for ecosystem management

    David C. Shaw;David M. Watson;Robert L. Mathiasen

  • Determinants of parasitic plant distribution: the role of host qualityThis article is one of a collection of papers based on a presentation from the Stem and Shoot Fungal Pathogens and Parasitic Plants: the Values of Biological Diversity session of the XXII International Union of Forestry Research Organization World Congress meeting held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, in 2005.

    David M. WatsonD.M. Watson

  • Temporal variation in bird assemblages: How representative is a one-year snapshot?

    Martine Maron;Alan Lill;David M Watson;Ralph Charles Mac Nally

  • Long-term consequences of habitat fragmentation—highland birds in Oaxaca, Mexico

    David M Watson

  • Parasites boost productivity: effects of mistletoe on litterfall dynamics in a temperate Australian forest.

    Wendy A. March;David M. Watson

  • The Australian Acoustic Observatory

    Paul Roe;Philip Eichinski;Richard A. Fuller;Paul G. McDonald

  • The role of vertebrates in the diversification of new world mistletoes.

    C. Restrepo;S. Sargent;D. J. Levey;D. M. Watson

  • Determinants of diversity in a naturally fragmented landscape: humid montane forest avifaunas of Mesoamerica

    David M. Watson;A. Townsend Peterson

  • The contribution of mistletoes to nutrient returns: Evidence for a critical role in nutrient cycling

    Wendy A. March;David M. Watson

  • Laurance, W. F., and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., (eds.). 1997. Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 616 pp

    David M. Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

Euan G. Ritchie
Euan G. Ritchie Deakin University
Margot Brereton
Margot Brereton Queensland University of Technology
James E. M. Watson
James E. M. Watson University of Queensland
John C. Z. Woinarski
John C. Z. Woinarski Charles Darwin University
Dale G. Nimmo
Dale G. Nimmo Charles Sturt University
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland
Gary W. Luck
Gary W. Luck Charles Sturt University
Ralph Charles Mac Nally
Ralph Charles Mac Nally University of Canberra
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Leslie Christidis
Leslie Christidis Southern Cross University

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