David Lindenmayer AO Australian Native Plants Society Biennial Conference 2026

David Lindenmayer AO

Professor David Lindenmayer is an expert in forest and woodland ecology and conservation biology. He has maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 43 years in duration. David Lindenmayer has developed expertise in forest biodiversity, logging impacts, salvage logging, plantation design, biodiversity in plantations, and multiple disturbance interactions. He is among the world's most productive and most highly-cited scientists having published 50 books and more 1590 scientific articles including more than 1000 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. David Lindenmayer was an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow from 2013-2018. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2014. His research has been recognised through numerous awards, including the Eureka Science Prize (three times), Whitley Award (11 times), the Serventy Medal, and the Whittaker Medal. In 2024, he received the MacFarlane-Burnett Medal for Life Sciences from the Australian Academy of Sciences.

Abstracts this author is presenting: