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60
Citations
10471
World Ranking
2341
National Ranking
180

Overview

Sarah Legge is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and contributes extensively to the field of environmental science, particularly focusing on wildlife ecology and conservation. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and genetics.

The scientist's work primarily addresses key topics such as wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, animal ecology and behavior studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and human-animal interaction studies.

Some recent papers authored by Sarah Legge include:

  • "After the Megafires: What Next for Australian Wildlife?", 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Animal mortality during fire", 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Fire as a driver and mediator of predator-prey interactions", 2022, Biological Reviews
  • "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

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Sarah Legge's research, as indicated by frequent co-authors including John C. Z. Woinarski, Stephen T. Garnett, Chris R. Dickman, Brett P. Murphy, and Libby Rumpff. This network suggests engagement with a variety of specialists in the fields related to ecology and conservation.

The scientist has published frequently in several academic journals, indicating preferred venues for dissemination of their research findings. These journals include:

  • Wildlife Research
  • Biological Conservation
  • Emu - Austral Ornithology
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire

Best Publications

  • The disappearing mammal fauna of northern Australia: context, cause, and response

    John C. Z. Woinarski;Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;James A. Fitzsimons;James A. Fitzsimons;Barry J. Traill

  • Sex ratios in birds and mammals: can the hypotheses be disentangled?

    Andrew Cockburn;Sarah Legge;Michael C. Double

  • Landscape Management of Fire and Grazing Regimes Alters the Fine-Scale Habitat Utilisation by Feral Cats

    Hugh W. McGregor;Sarah Legge;Menna E. Jones;Christopher N. Johnson

  • Enumerating a continental-scale threat: How many feral cats are in Australia?

    S. Legge;B. P. Murphy;Hugh McGregor;John Woinarski

  • The cost of helping.

    Robert Heinsohn;Sarah Legge

  • Improving biodiversity monitoring

    David B Lindenmayer;Philip Gibbons;Max Bourke;Mark Burgman

  • Feral Cats Are Better Killers in Open Habitats, Revealed by Animal-Borne Video.

    Hugh McGregor;Sarah Legge;Menna E. Jones;Christopher N. Johnson

  • Extreme reversed sexual dichromatism in a bird without sex role reversal.

    Robert Heinsohn;Sarah Legge;John A. Endler

  • Amplified predation after fire suppresses rodent populations in Australia’s tropical savannas

    Lily Leahy;Sarah M. Legge;Sarah M. Legge;Katherine Tuft;Hugh W. McGregor;Hugh W. McGregor

  • Havens for threatened Australian mammals: the contributions of fenced areas and offshore islands to the protection of mammal species susceptible to introduced predators

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;John C. Z. Woinarski;Andrew A. Burbidge;Russell Palmer

  • Prioritizing threat management for biodiversity conservation

    Josie Carwardine;Josie Carwardine;Trudy O’Connor;Trudy O’Connor;Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;Brendan Mackey;Brendan Mackey

  • Reading the black book: The number, timing, distribution and causes of listed extinctions in Australia

    John C.Z. Woinarski;Michael Braby;Andrew A. Burbidge;David Coates

  • Impacts and management of feral cats Felis catus in Australia

    Tim S. Doherty;Chris R. Dickman;Christopher N. Johnson;Sarah Legge

  • How many birds are killed by cats in Australia

    J.C.Z. Woinarski;B.P. Murphy;S.M. Legge;S.T. Garnett

  • The contribution of policy, law, management, research, and advocacy failings to the recent extinctions of three Australian vertebrate species

    John C.Z. Woinarski;Stephen T. Garnett;Sarah M. Legge;Sarah M. Legge;David B. Lindenmayer

  • Rapid recovery of mammal fauna in the central Kimberley, northern Australia, following the removal of introduced herbivores.

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;Malcolm S. Kennedy;Ray Lloyd;Stephen A. Murphy;Stephen A. Murphy

  • After the Megafires: What Next for Australian Wildlife?

    Brendan A. Wintle;Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;John C.Z. Woinarski

  • The short-term effects of an extensive and high-intensity fire on vertebrates in the tropical savannas of the central Kimberley, northern Australia

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;Stephen Murphy;Joanne Heathcote;Emma Flaxman

  • The effect of helpers on reproductive success in the laughing kookaburra

    Sarah Legge

  • Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;David B. Lindenmayer;Natasha M. Robinson;Benjamin C. Scheele

  • Extreme bias in sex allocation in Eclectus parrots

    Robert Heinsohn;Sarah Legge;Simon Barry

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Z. Woinarski
John C. Z. Woinarski Charles Darwin University
Christopher N. Johnson
Christopher N. Johnson University of Tasmania
Chris R. Dickman
Chris R. Dickman University of Sydney
Stephen T. Garnett
Stephen T. Garnett Charles Darwin University
Brett P. Murphy
Brett P. Murphy Charles Darwin University
David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Robert Heinsohn
Robert Heinsohn Australian National University
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Brendan A. Wintle
Brendan A. Wintle University of Melbourne
Tim S. Doherty
Tim S. Doherty Deakin University

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