I am a world-leading expert in forest and woodland ecology and conservation biology and have maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 42 years in duration, and developed expertise in forest biodiversity, logging impacts, salvage logging, plantation design, biodiversity in plantations, and multiple disturbance interactions.
I am among the world's most productive and most highly-cited scientists having published 49 books and 1495 scientific articles including more than 950 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. I was an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow from 2013-2018 and am a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Ecological Society of America, the Royal Zoological Society of NSW, and the American Academy of Sciences. I was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2014. My research has been recognised through numerous awards, including the Eureka Science Prize (three times), Whitley Award (10 times), the Serventy Medal, and the Whittaker Medal. In 2024, I received the MacFarlane-Burnett Medal for Life Sciences from the Australian Academy of Sciences.
