About the Author

Professor David B. Lindenmayer AO has worked as a researcher on Australian farms for more than 23 years. He has a particular interest in improving environmental conditions on farm properties, including protecting remnant native vegetation as well as restoring and replanting it. He specializes in establishing and maintaining ecological large-scale, long-term research and monitoring programs on farms. He has co-authored a number of other books, including Natural Asset Farming and Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife. Damian Michael is a Senior Research Officer in Ecology at The Australian National University. He has broad interests in landscape ecology, biodiversity conservation, herpetology and understanding the ecological importance of rocky outcrops in agricultural landscapes. He manages several large-scale biodiversity monitoring programs in New South Wales and has published 90 scientific papers and six books. Mason Crane has been a field-based research officer with the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU for the last 15 years. Sachiko Okada is a senior research officer at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU. Daniel Florance manages the Australian Government's Environmental Stewardship Program. Since 2012, he has worked as a research officer at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU. Philip Barton is a community ecologist interested in the drivers of insect diversity in box-gum grassy woodlands. Karen Ikin is a postdoctoral fellow with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, based at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU.