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Overview

Tony D. Auld is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Animal and Plant Science Education

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tony D. Auld include:

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, 2021, Scientific Data
  • High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019-2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity, 2021, Diversity and Distributions
  • Fire-related threats and transformational change in Australian ecosystems, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country, 2023, Plants People Planet
  • AusTraits - a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tony D. Auld are:

  • Rachael V. Gallagher
  • David A. Keith
  • Mark K. J. Ooi
  • Stuart Allen
  • Carl R. Gosper

Tony D. Auld's publications are commonly found in venues such as:

  • Australasian Plant Conservation journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation
  • Scientific Data
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Australian Journal of Botany
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

    Fiona J. Thomson;Angela T. Moles;Tony D. Auld;Richard T. Kingsford

  • Predicting patterns of post-fire germination in 35 eastern Australian Fabaceae

    Tony D. Auld;Michael A. O'connell

  • Soil Temperatures During Experimental Bushfires in Relation to Fire Intensity: Consequences for Legume Germination and Fire Management in South-Eastern Australia

    R. A. Bradstock;T. D. Auld

  • Plant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming?

    Damien A. Fordham;H. Resit Akçakaya;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Jane Elith

  • Climate change and bet-hedging: interactions between increased soil temperatures and seed bank persistence

    Mark K. J. Ooi;Tony D. Auld;Andrew J. Denham

  • How much seed remains in the soil after a fire

    Tony D. Auld;Andrew J. Denham

  • Soil temperatures after the passage of a fire : Do they influence the germination of buried seeds ?

    Tony D. Auld;Ross A. Bradstock

  • AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora.

    Daniel Falster;Rachael Gallagher;Rachael Gallagher;Elizabeth H. Wenk;Ian J. Wright

  • Population dynamics of the shrub Acacia suaveolens (Sm.) Willd.: Fire and the transition to seedlings

    Tony D. Auld

  • Temperature thresholds of physically dormant seeds and plant functional response to fire: variation among species and relative impact of climate change

    Mark K. J. Ooi;Andrew J. Denham;Andrew J. Denham;Victor M. Santana;Victor M. Santana;Tony D. Auld;Tony D. Auld

  • Conserving biodiversity: threats and solutions

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

  • Population dynamics of the shrub Acacia suaveolens (Sm.) Willd.: Dispersal and the dynamics of the soil seed-bank

    Tony D. Auld

  • Patterns in longevity of soil seedbanks in fire-prone communities of south-eastern Australia.

    Tony D. Auld;David A. Keith;Ross A. Bradstock

  • Interactive effects of heat shock and smoke on germination of nine species forming soil seed banks within the Sydney region

    Paul B. Thomas;E. Charles Morris;Tony D. Auld

  • Soil temperatures during bushfires in semi-arid, mallee shrublands

    R. A. Bradstock;T. D. Auld;M. E. Ellis;J. S. Cohn

  • High fire frequency and the impact of the 2019–2020 megafires on Australian plant diversity

    Rachael V. Gallagher;Stuart Allen;Berin D. E. Mackenzie;Berin D. E. Mackenzie;Colin J. Yates

  • Projected soil temperature increase and seed dormancy response along an altitudinal gradient: implications for seed bank persistence under climate change

    Mark K. J. Ooi;Mark K. J. Ooi;Tony D. Auld;Andrew J. Denham

  • Persistence of obligate-seeding species at the population scale: effects of fire intensity, fire patchiness and long fire-free intervals

    Mark K. J. Ooi;Mark K. J. Ooi;Robert J. Whelan;Tony D. Auld

  • Chasing the unknown: predicting seed dispersal mechanisms from plant traits

    Fiona J. Thomson;Angela T. Moles;Tony D. Auld;Daniel Ramp

  • The role of ants and mammals in dispersal and post-dispersal seed predation of the shrubs Grevillea (Proteaceae)

    Tony D. Auld;A.J. Denham

  • Population dynamics of the shrub Acacia suaveolens (Sm.) Willd.: Survivorship throughout the life cycle, a synthesis

    Tony D. Auld

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark K. J. Ooi
Mark K. J. Ooi University of New South Wales
David A. Keith
David A. Keith University of New South Wales
Richard T. Kingsford
Richard T. Kingsford University of New South Wales
Robert J. Whelan
Robert J. Whelan University of Wollongong
Rachael V. Gallagher
Rachael V. Gallagher Macquarie University
Ross A. Bradstock
Ross A. Bradstock University of Wollongong
Michelle R. Leishman
Michelle R. Leishman Macquarie University
Daniel Ramp
Daniel Ramp University of Technology Sydney
Patrick J. Baker
Patrick J. Baker University of Melbourne
Daniel Lunney
Daniel Lunney University of Sydney

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