Person

Saunders, Denis Allan (1947 - )

AM

Born
1947
Occupation
Animal ecologist and Ornithologist

Summary

Denis Saunders spent nearly 30 years with CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Wildlife and Ecology in Western Australia. He began his work at CSIRO as an Experimental Officer in 1968 and progressed to Officer-in-Charge. Saunders then moved to Canberra in 1997 as Assistant Chief of the Division. He has studied the ecology of black cockatoos and the effects of development on their distribution and abundance; the ecology of islands and conservation of island bird communities; and the conservation of bird communities in agricultural landscapes. Saunders received a Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Conservation Biology and was Chair of Birds Australia Emu Review Committee. He has also convened multi- and inter-disciplinary conferences on wildlife conservation.

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Chronology

1968 - 1977
Career position - Experimental Officer to Officer-in-Charge of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Wildlife and Ecology in Western Australia
1977 -
Career position - Assistant Chief of the CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology in Canberra
1986
Award - Whitley Medal for Birds of the Eucalypt Forests and Woodlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management (co-recipients: A. Keast, H.F. Recher and H. Ford)
1992
Award - American Wildlife Society Award - for The Role of Corridors, published in 1991 with Richard Hobbs
1993 - 2002
Career position - Membre, Editorial Boatd, Pacific conservation biology
2005
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to nature conservation, particularly through the study of Australian birds and the development of landscape ecology in Australia

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Books

  • Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, Accounting for nature: a scientific method for constructing environmental asset condition accounts (Sydney: Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, 2016), 32 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • Saunders, D. A.; Hopkins, A. J.; and How, R. A. eds, Australian ecosystems: 200 years of utilization, degradation and reconstruction: proceedings of a symposium held in Geraldton, Western Australia, 29 August - 2 September, 1988 ( Chipping Norton, N.S.W.: Surrey Beatty & Sons for the Ecological Society of Australia, 1990), 602 pp. Details
  • Saunders, Denis, Spratt, David and Van Wensveen, Monica eds, Perspectives on Wildlife Research: Celebrating 50 Years of CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology (Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty & Sons in Association with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, 2002), 144 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Bamford, Michael; Bamford, Amanda; and Saunders, Denis A., 'Tribute to Dr Stephen Davies: ornithologist, conservation biologist and mentor (26 April 1935 - 29 October 2020)', Pacific conservation biology, 27 (1) (2021), iv-vi. Details
  • Calver, Mike, 'Thank you to Denis Saunders for 30 years' service to Pacific conservation biology', Pacific conservation biology, 28 (5) (2022), i-ii. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC22013. Details
  • Chatfield, G. R. and Saunders, Denis A., 'History and establishment of Two Peoples Bay Nature Reserve', Pacific conservation biology, 30 (2024), 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1071/PC24004. Details
  • Recher, Harry F.; and Saunders, Denis A., 'Tribute to David William Goodall DSc, AM: advocate and ecologist par excellence (4 April 1914 to 10 May 2018)', Pacific conservation biology, 25 (2019), v-vii. https://doi.org/10.1071/PCv25n1_OB. Details
  • Saunders, Denis, 'Graeme Talbot Smith February 1938 - June 1999', Pacific conservation biology, 6 (2) (2000), 174. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC000174. Details
  • Saunders, Denis A., 'Tribute to Alison Betty Doley AM: farmer and conservationist (28 October 1938 to 20 February 2019)', Pacific conservation biology, 25 (2) (2019), iii-v. https://doi.org?101017/PCv25n2_OB. Details
  • Saunders, Denis A.; and Rowley, Ian, 'Obituary: Graeme Talbot Smith (February 1938 - June 1999)', Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 82 (1999), 129. https://www.rswa.org.au/publications/Journal/82(3)/82(3)obituarysmith.pdf. Details
  • Saunders, Denis A.; Olsen, Penny; and Cunningham, Ross, 'Tribute to Professor Henry Allan Nix AO: pre-eminent biogeographer and ornithologist (8 July 1937 - 2 February 2022)', Pacific conservation biology, 28 (5) (2022), iii-vi. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC2206. Details

Resources

See also

  • Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 492 pp. Details

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