David Blair

Project Team Member
The Australian National University

David Blair completed a degree in forest science at Melbourne University. He traveled widely before working as an environmental photographer and consultant.

In 2009 he started with ANU as a forest ecologist, studying the Mountain Ash forests of Victoria as they re-grew after the Black Saturday bushfires.

His TSR research focuses on Victorian Central Highlands Tall forests.

Publications

Modelling the factors influencing Sambar Deer (Rusa unicolor) occurrence in the wet eucalypt forests of south-eastern Australia
Australian Zoologist

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

Key perspectives on early successional forests subject to stand-replacing disturbances
Forest Ecology and Management

Spatiotemporal effects of logging and fire on tall, wet temperate eucalypt forest birds
Ecological Applications

Inter-den tree movements by Leadbeater’s Possum
Australian Zoologist

The conservation of Greater Glider populations in the Victorian Central Highlands
TSR Hub

The road to oblivion - Quantifying pathways in the decline of large old trees
Forest Ecology and Management

Failing to conserve Leadbeater's Possum and its Mountain Ash forest habitat
Royal Zoological Society of NSW

From unburnt to salvage logged: quantifying bird responses to different levels of disturbance severity
Journal of Applied Ecology

Implications of the rapid loss of large old hollow-bearing trees in Victorian Mountain Ash forests
TSR Hub

Adaptive Management for threatened mammals in the Victorian Central Highlands
TSR Hub

Relationships between tree size and occupancy by cavity-dependent arboreal marsupials
Forest Ecology and Management

Environmental and human drivers influencing large old tree abundance in Australian wet forests
Forest Ecology and Management