Dr Dale Nimmo
  Phone   N/A
Email   dale.nimmo@deakin.edu.au
Position   Research Fellow
Campus   Burwood
Research grouping   Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Centre for Integrative Ecology

I am a research fellow currently working with the Landscape Ecology Research Group on identifying
factors that contribute towards resilience in human-dominated ecosystems.

Research interests

  1. Landscape ecology
  2. Macroecology
  3. Fire ecology


Key publications

Nimmo, D. G., James, S. G., Kelly, L. T., Watson, S. J. & Bennett, A. F. (2011) The decoupling of abundance and species richness in lizard communities Journal of Animal Ecology

Kelly, L.T., Nimmo, D.G., Spence-Bailey, L.M., Haslem, A., Watson, S.J., Clarke, M.F., & Bennett, A.F. (2011) Influence of fire history on small mammal distribution: insights from a 100-year post-fire chronosequence Diversity and Distributions

Haslem, A., Kelly, L. T., Nimmo, D. G., Watson, S. J., Kenny, S. A., Taylor, R. S., Avitabile, S. C., Callister, K. E., Spence-Bailey, L. M., Clarke, M. F. & Bennett, A. F. (2011) Habitat or fuel? Implications of long-term, post-fire dynamics for the development of key resources for fauna and fire. Journal of Applied Ecology

Watson, S.J., Taylor, R.S., Nimmo, D.G., Kelly, L.T., Haslem, A., Clarke, M.F. & Bennett, A.F. (2012) Effects of time-since-fire on bird species: how informative are generalized fire-response curves for conservation management? Ecological Applications

Nimmo, D.G., Kelly, L.T., Spence-Bailey, L.M., Watson, S.J., Haslem, A., White, J., Clarke, M.F., & Bennett, A.F (2012) Predicting the century-long, post-fire responses of reptiles Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press)

View entire list of audited publications

Related links

Landscape Ecology Research Group
http://landscapeecologyresearc h.wordpress.com/

Mallee Fire & Biodiversity Project
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/zool ogy/research/mallee-fire/

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title Mark Hall (with A.F Bennett)The effect of roadside vegetation configuration on woodland birds Catherine Payne (with E. Ritchie)The interaction between invasive mesopredators in semi-arid Australia Shannon Braun (with E. Ritchie)The influence of predation by invasive predators on reptile communities  


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22nd September 2011