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Don A. Driscoll

Don A. Driscoll

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
11795
World Ranking
2978
National Ranking
228

Overview

Don A. Driscoll is affiliated with Deakin University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on ecology and conservation. Their research spans a range of interconnected topics that address the dynamics of wildlife, habitats, and ecosystem responses to environmental changes.

The main fields of study represented in their work include:

  • Environmental Science

Within these broad fields, Driscoll's subfields of study comprise:

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

The primary topics of Don A. Driscoll's research cover a range of ecological and conservation issues:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Plant and animal studies

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Tim S. Doherty
  • Euan G. Ritchie
  • Kristian Bell
  • Anne C. Eichholtzer
  • Darcy J. Watchorn

Driscoll has published multiple articles in prominent venues, with recurring publications in:

  • Biological Conservation
  • Animal Conservation
  • Austral Ecology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Don A. Driscoll include:

  • "How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation," 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires," 2024, Nature
  • "Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution (coauthored by Tim S. Doherty)
  • "Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: A global meta-analysis," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography (coauthored by Tim S. Doherty)
  • "Artificial habitat structures for animal conservation: design and implementation, risks and opportunities," 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (coauthored by Darcy J. Watchorn)

Best Publications

  • A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation

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

  • Fire management for biodiversity conservation: Key research questions and our capacity to answer them

    Don A. Driscoll;David B. Lindenmayer;Andrew F. Bennett;Michael Bode

  • Conceptual domain of the matrix in fragmented landscapes

    Don A. Driscoll;Sam C. Banks;Philip S. Barton;David B. Lindenmayer

  • How does ecological disturbance influence genetic diversity

    Sam C. Banks;Geoffrey J. Cary;Annabel L. Smith;Ian D. Davies

  • Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires.

    Philip Gibbons;Linda van Bommel;A. Malcolm Gill;Geoffrey J. Cary

  • A succession of theories: purging redundancy from disturbance theory

    Stephanie A. Pulsford;David B. Lindenmayer;Don A. Driscoll

  • Human disturbance causes widespread disruption of animal movement.

    Tim S. Doherty;Graeme C. Hays;Don A. Driscoll

  • Extinction and outbreaks accompany fragmentation of a reptile community

    Don A. Driscoll

  • Beetle responses to habitat fragmentation depend on ecological traits, habitat condition, and remnant size

    Don A. Driscoll;Don A. Driscoll;Tom Weir

  • The Role of Connectivity in Australian Conservation

    M. E. Soule;Brendan G. Mackey;H. F. Recher;J. E. Williams

  • Environmental and vegetation variables have a greater influence than habitat fragmentation in structuring lizard communities in remnant urban bushland

    Sacha Jellinek;Don Driscoll;Jamie Kirkpatrick

  • Interventions for Reducing Extinction Risk in Chytridiomycosis-Threatened Amphibians

    Ben C. Scheele;Ben C. Scheele;David A. Hunter;Laura Frances Grogan;Lee Berger

  • Fire severity and landscape context effects on arboreal marsupials

    DB Lindenmayer;W Blanchard;L McBurney;L McBurney;D Blair

  • Animal movements in fire-prone landscapes

    Dale G. Nimmo;Sarah Avitabile;Sam C. Banks;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Reptile responses to anthropogenic habitat modification: a global meta-analysis

    Tim S. Doherty;Sara Balouch;Kristian Bell;Thomas J. Burns

  • How predictable are reptile responses to wildfire

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

  • How fire interacts with habitat loss and fragmentation.

    Don A. Driscoll;Dolors Armenteras;Andrew F. Bennett;Lluís Brotons

  • Extent of invasion of Tasmanian native vegetation by the exotic bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Apoidea: Apidae).

    Andrew B. Hingston;J. O. N. Marsden-Smedley;Don A. Driscoll;Sib Corbett

  • How many common reptile species are fire specialists? A replicated natural experiment highlights the predictive weakness of a fire succession model

    Don A Driscoll;Meredith K Henderson

  • The trajectory of dispersal research in conservation biology. Systematic review

    Don A. Driscoll;Sam C. Banks;Philip S. Barton;Karen Ikin

  • Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities

    Don A. Driscoll

  • Ecological Genetics: Design, Analysis, and Application

    Don Driscoll

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Sam C. Banks
Sam C. Banks Charles Darwin University
Ben C. Scheele
Ben C. Scheele Australian National University
Philip S. Barton
Philip S. Barton Deakin University
David A. Keith
David A. Keith University of New South Wales
Euan G. Ritchie
Euan G. Ritchie Deakin University
Tim S. Doherty
Tim S. Doherty Deakin University
Jane A. Catford
Jane A. Catford King's College London
Sue McIntyre
Sue McIntyre Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ross A. Bradstock
Ross A. Bradstock University of Wollongong

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