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Professor Ralph Mac Nally is Australia’s principal expert and a globally significant leader in spatial ecology, making enduring contributions in the related themes of the ecology of whole catchments and geographic ecology. He unifies research in terrestrial, aquatic and transitional (floodplains and estuaries) ecosystems to bring understanding to how integrated catchments work ecologically. Mac Nally has contributed important new findings to the challenging problem of the concurrent management of carbon sequestration through landscape reforestation, water yields, and terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity. Professor Mac Nally has focused on south-eastern Australia, where he has provided keystone contributions to the understanding of the ecological dynamics of the nation’s most important catchment, the Murray-Darling Basin. His pioneering method for measuring forest health over vast areas is the standard adopted by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to report on vegetation condition for the entire basin (> 1 million km2), which is updated annually. Mac Nally has linked that work with climate-change projections to estimate the viability of bird and frog species over the next 50 years. Mac Nally has internationally recognized leadership that has led to long-term, significant collaborations in geographic ecology, specifically in major research programs in western North America on birds and butterflies and in the dynamics of US west coast estuaries, with a United Kingdom–Brazil collaboration to understand and respond to the impacts of land-use change on the Amazonian terrestrial and aquatic biota, and with catchment dynamics in response to human pressures in Spanish landscapes.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Melbourne University
PhD, Melbourne University
External positions
Adjunct Professor, La Trobe University
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Projects 2012 2019
- 4 Finished
Diagnosing river health using invertebrate traits and DNA barcodes
Kefford, B., Chessman, B., Goonan, P., Hoffman, A., Mac Nally, R., Metzeling, L., Nichols, S., Ramos, M. J. G. & Warne, M.
Australian Research Council, Environment Protection Authority Victoria, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, E-Water CRC, Department of Land Resource Management, Department of Primary Industries, Department of Water WA, ACT Environment and Planning Directorate, Kosciuszko Thredbo Pty Ltd, Department of Science information Technology and Innovation, Environment Protection Authority, Icon Water
15/12/16 → 15/12/19
Project: Research
Waterbird Theme of the Murray Darling Basin Environmental Water Knowledge Project-via La Trobe
Mac Nally, R. & Bond, N.
Murray Darling Basin Authority
10/12/16 → 14/05/19
Project: Other
Either side of the Big Wet: the future resilience of south eastern Australia's biota.
Mac Nally, R., Dommenget, D., King, A., Metzeling, L., Pigott, P., Raadik, T. & Thompson, R.
2/05/13 → 31/12/17
Project: Other
Research Output 1979 2019
Beyond refuges: Identifying temporally dynamic havens to support ecological resistance and resilience to climatic disturbances
Selwood, K. E., Cunningham, S. C. & Mac Nally, R., May 2019, In : Biological Conservation. 233, p. 131-138 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Biological interactions mediate context and species-specific sensitivities to salinity
Bray, J. P., Reich, J., Nichols, S. J., Kon Kam King, G., Mac Nally, R., Thompson, R., O’Reilly-Nugent, A. & Kefford, B. J., 21 Jan 2019, In : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 374, 1764, p. 1-10 10 p., 20180020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Congruence in riverine conditions and associations between native fish and several species of amphibians in a region prone to fish invasions
Maceda-Veiga, A., Mac Nally, R. & de Sostoa, A., Jun 2019, In : Hydrobiologia. 836, 1, p. 109-122 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Effect of detection heterogeneity in occupancy-detection models: An experimental test of time-to-first-detection methods
Medina-Romero, M., O'Reilly-Nugent, A., Davidson, A., Bray, J., Wandrag, E., Gruber, B., Lopez-Aldana, A., Palit, R., Reid, T., Adamack, A., Pietsch, R., Allen, C., Mac Nally, R. & Duncan, R. P., 3 May 2019, In : Ecography. p. 1-9 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Effects of fish kills on fish consumers and other water-dependent fauna: Exploring the potential effect of mass mortality of carp in Australia
McGinness, H. M., Paton, A., Gawne, B., King, A. J., Kopf, R. K., Mac Nally, R. & McInerney, P. J., 24 May 2019, In : Marine and Freshwater Research. p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article