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Overview

Wade Blanchard is a researcher affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their research covers multiple main topics, which include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Blanchard has contributed extensively to scholarly articles, appearing in several prominent publication venues. Frequent venues of publication include:

  • Austral Ecology
  • Ecosphere
  • PLoS ONE
  • Australian Zoologist
  • Diversity and Distributions

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Blanchard are:

  • "The response of arboreal marsupials to long-term changes in forest disturbance" (2020, Animal Conservation)
  • "Does forest thinning reduce fire severity in Australian eucalypt forests?" (2020, Conservation Letters)
  • "Stand age related differences in forest microclimate" (2022, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • "Empirical analyses of the factors influencing fire severity in southeastern Australia" (2021, Ecosphere)
  • "Effects of altered fire intervals on critical timber production and conservation values" (2021, International Journal of Wildland Fire)

Blanchard regularly collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • David B. Lindenmayer
  • Claire N. Foster
  • Ben C. Scheele
  • Lachlan McBurney
  • Elle Bowd

Best Publications

  • QUANTITATIVE FATTY ACID SIGNATURE ANALYSIS: A NEW METHOD OF ESTIMATING PREDATOR DIETS

    Sara J. Iverson;Chris Field;W. Don Bowen;Wade Blanchard

  • New Policies for Old Trees: Averting a Global Crisis in a Keystone Ecological Structure

    David B. Lindenmayer;William F. Laurance;Jerry F. Franklin;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens;Gene E. Likens

  • Sex differences in grey seal diet reflect seasonal variation in foraging behaviour and reproductive expenditure: evidence from quantitative fatty acid signature analysis.

    Carrie A. Beck;Sara J. Iverson;W. Don Bowen;Wade Blanchard

  • Interacting factors driving a major loss of large trees with cavities in a forest ecosystem.

    David B. Lindenmayer;Wade Blanchard;Lachlan McBurney;David Blair

  • Fire severity and landscape context effects on arboreal marsupials

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

  • Inferring shark population trends from generalized linear mixed models of pelagic longline catch and effort data

    Julia K. Baum;Wade Blanchard

  • Genetic variation in threshold reaction norms for alternative reproductive tactics in male Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar

    Jacinthe Piche;Jeffrey Alexander Hutchings;Wade Blanchard

  • Fish lost at sea: the effect of soak time on pelagic longline catches

    Peter Ward;Ransom A. Myers;Wade Blanchard

  • Survival variability and population density in fish populations

    Coilín Minto;Ransom A. Myers;Wade Blanchard

  • Ecosystem assessment of mountain ash forest in the Central Highlands of Victoria, south‐eastern Australia

    Emma L. Burns;Emma L. Burns;David B. Lindenmayer;John Stein;Wade Blanchard

  • The anatomy of a failed offset

    David B. Lindenmayer;Mason Crane;Megan C. Evans;Martine Maron

  • Reduced availability of habitat structures in urban landscapes: Implications for policy and practice

    Darren S. Le Roux;Karen Ikin;David B. Lindenmayer;Wade Blanchard

  • Complex responses of birds to landscape‐level fire extent, fire severity and environmental drivers

    David B. Lindenmayer;Wade Blanchard;Lachlan McBurney;Lachlan McBurney;David Blair;David Blair

  • REDUCED POPULATION GROWTH OF GRAY SEALS AT SABLE ISLAND: EVIDENCE FROM PUP PRODUCTION AND AGE OF PRIMIPARITY

    W. D. Bowen;J. I. McMillan;Wade Blanchard

  • Disturbance gradient shows logging affects plant functional groups more than fire

    David P. Blair;Lachlan M. McBurney;Wade Blanchard;Sam C. Banks

  • Environmental and human drivers influencing large old tree abundance in Australian wet forests

    David B. Lindenmayer;David B. Lindenmayer;Wade Blanchard;Wade Blanchard;David Blair;David Blair;Lachlan McBurney;Lachlan McBurney

  • Climate Change, Mean Sea Level and High Tides in the Bay of Fundy

    David A. Greenberg;Wade Blanchard;Bruce Smith;Elaine Barrow

  • Continental-scale assessment reveals inadequate monitoring for threatened vertebrates in a megadiverse country

    Benjamin Scheele;Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;Wade Blanchard;Stephen Garnett

  • The response of arboreal marsupials to long‐term changes in forest disturbance

    David B. Lindenmayer;Wade Blanchard;David Blair;Lachlan McBurney

  • Do nest boxes in restored woodlands promote the conservation of hollow-dependent fauna?

    David Lindenmayer;Mason Crane;Wade Blanchard;Sachiko Okada

  • Mapping species richness and human impact drivers to inform global pelagic conservation prioritisation

    Rowan Trebilco;Benjamin S. Halpern;Joanna Mills Flemming;Chris Field

  • Richness is not all: how changes in avian functional diversity reflect major landscape modification caused by pine plantations

    David Lindenmayer;Wade Blanchard;Philip Tennant;Philip Barton

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Lindenmayer
David B. Lindenmayer Australian National University
Sam C. Banks
Sam C. Banks Charles Darwin University
Mason Crane
Mason Crane Australian National University
David Blair
David Blair James Cook University
Don A. Driscoll
Don A. Driscoll Deakin University
Philip S. Barton
Philip S. Barton Deakin University
Sara J. Iverson
Sara J. Iverson Dalhousie University
Ben C. Scheele
Ben C. Scheele Australian National University
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch
Ayesha I. T. Tulloch University of Sydney
Damian Michael
Damian Michael Australian National University

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