David M. Watson

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David M. Watson is affiliated with the following schools: Queen's University at Kingston, Charles Sturt University, Monash University

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According to Wikipedia, David M. Watson is an Australian ornithologist and ecologist who is also a scientific specialist on mistletoes. He served on the New South Wales Threatened Species Scientific Committee from 2015 until publicly resigning in June 2017 in protest after the NSW Berejiklian government passed a bill granting heritage status to feral horses in the Kosciuszko National Park.

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David M. Watson's Published Works

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MISTLETOE-A KEYSTONE RESOURCE IN FORESTS AND WOODLANDS WORLDWIDE (2001) (378)
Mistletoes: Pathology, Systematics, Ecology, and Management. (2008) (224)
Structured elicitation of expert judgments for threatened species assessment: a case study on a continental scale using email (2012) (152)
A conceptual framework for studying species composition in fragments, islands and other patchy ecosystems (2002) (123)
Mistletoe as a keystone resource: an experimental test (2012) (104)
Parasitic plants as facilitators: more Dryad than Dracula? (2009) (103)
The 'standardized search': An improved way to conduct bird surveys (2003) (102)
A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food (2011) (92)
Seed Fate: Predation, Dispersal and Seedling Establishment (2006) (82)
Temporal variation in bird assemblages: How representative is a one-year snapshot? (2005) (81)
Comparison of dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium spp., Viscaceae) in the western United States with mistletoes (Amyema spp., Loranthaceae) in Australia—ecological analogs and reciprocal models for ecosystem management (2004) (80)
Hydraulic effects of aquatic weeds in U.K. rivers (1987) (79)
Land‐use change: incorporating the frequency, sequence, time span, and magnitude of changes into ecological research (2014) (79)
Problems with areal definitions of endemism: the effects of spatial scaling (1998) (77)
Parasites boost productivity: effects of mistletoe on litterfall dynamics in a temperate Australian forest (2007) (77)
Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity (2018) (74)
The Acanthodian Fishes (1939) (74)
Determinants of parasitic plant distribution: the role of host quality. (2009) (69)
The role of vertebrates in the diversification of new world mistletoes. (2002) (66)
Mistletoe nesting in Australian birds: a review (2006) (59)
The contribution of mistletoes to nutrient returns: Evidence for a critical role in nutrient cycling (2010) (54)
Long-term consequences of habitat fragmentation—highland birds in Oaxaca, Mexico (2003) (53)
Effects of mistletoe on diversity: a case-study from southern New South Wales (2002) (53)
Comparative evaluation of new approaches to survey birds (2004) (53)
Nutritional composition of the preferred prey of insectivorous birds: popularity reflects quality (2015) (53)
Determinants of diversity in a naturally fragmented landscape: humid montane forest avifaunas of Mesoamerica (1999) (51)
Mistletoe specialist frugivores: latterday ‘Johnny Appleseeds’ or self-serving market gardeners? (2013) (48)
Regression models for hydraulic conductivity and field test of the borehole permeameter (1987) (48)
Mistletoes of Southern Australia (2011) (45)
The Avifauna of Severely Fragmented, Buloke 'Allocasuarina Luehmanni' Woodland in Western Victoria, Australia (2000) (43)
Diagnosable versus Distinct: Evaluating Species Limits in Birds (2005) (41)
Mistletoe, friend and foe: synthesizing ecosystem implications of mistletoe infection (2017) (40)
Temporal variation in food resources determines onset of breeding in an Australian mistletoe specialist (2007) (40)
Long-duration, false-colour spectrograms for detecting species in large audio data-sets (2018) (39)
Continental‐Scale Governance and the Hastening of Loss of Australia's Biodiversity (2013) (38)
Distinguishing area and habitat heterogeneity effects on species richness : Birds in Victorian buloke remnants (1997) (38)
Paleontology and Modern Biology (1951) (37)
Impacts of feral horses in the Australian Alps and evidence‐based solutions (2019) (36)
Spatial ecology of a root parasite – from pattern to process (2007) (33)
Monitoring ecological consequences of efforts to restore landscape-scale connectivity (2017) (33)
Wildlife restoration: mainstreaming translocations to keep common species common (2015) (31)
Mistletoe: a unique constituent of canopies worldwide. (2004) (30)
Declining woodland birds—is our science making a difference? (2011) (27)
Can the biotic nestedness matrix be used predictively (2004) (27)
Arthropod assemblages in tree canopies: a comparison of orders on box mistletoe (Amyema miquelii) and its host eucalypts (2011) (25)
Implications of movement patterns of a dietary generalist for mistletoe seed dispersal (2010) (25)
Metrics of progress in the understanding and management of threats to Australian birds (2018) (23)
Using visualization and machine learning methods to monitor low detectability species - The least bittern as a case study (2020) (21)
The restricted seed rain of a mistletoe specialist (2012) (21)
Optimizing inventories of diverse sites: insights from Barro Colorado Island birds (2010) (21)
Diamond Firetails (Stagonopleura guttata) preferentially nest in mistletoe (2005) (21)
What do declining woodland birds eat? A synthesis of dietary records (2012) (21)
Hemiparasitic shrubs increase resource availability and multi-trophic diversity of eucalypt forest birds. (2011) (21)
Disproportionate Declines in Ground-Foraging Insectivorous Birds after Mistletoe Removal (2015) (20)
Topographic ruggedness and rainfall mediate geographic range contraction of a threatened marsupial predator (2019) (20)
A Call for International Leadership and Coordination to Realize the Potential of Conservation Technology (2019) (19)
The Relative Contribution of Specialists and Generalists to Mistletoe Dispersal: Insights from a Neotropical Rain Forest (2013) (19)
The Australian Acoustic Observatory (2021) (19)
Fleshing out facilitation - reframing interaction networks beyond top-down versus bottom-up. (2016) (17)
Reduced rainfall explains avian declines in an unfragmented landscape: incremental steps toward an empty forest? (2013) (16)
Sampling effort determination in bird surveys: do current norms meet best-practice recommendations? (2017) (15)
An experimental approach to understanding the use of mistletoe as a nest substrate for birds: nest predation (2008) (15)
Artificial refuges for wildlife conservation: what is the state of the science? (2021) (15)
Vagrants as vanguards of range shifts in a dynamic world (2018) (15)
Ethical birding call playback and conservation (2019) (14)
Multi-century periods since fire in an intact woodland landscape favour bird species declining in an adjacent agricultural region (2019) (14)
The Importance of Mistletoe to the White-fronted Honeyeater Phylidonyris albifrons in Western Victoria (1997) (14)
The bright side of parasitic plants: What are they good for? (2020) (13)
Interactions between almond plantations and native ecosystems: Lessons learned from north-western Victoria (2014) (13)
Real-Time Stereo Matching Using Transputer Arrays for Close-Range Applications (1988) (12)
Diversity and host specificity of Psylloidea (Hemiptera) inhabiting box mistletoe, Amyema miquelii (Loranthaceae) and three of its host Eucalyptus species (2015) (12)
Fire-mediated habitat change regulates woodland bird species and functional group occurrence. (2019) (12)
Parasites on parasites: hyper-, epi-, and autoparasitism among flowering plants. (2021) (12)
Competitive Dominance within Biofilm Consortia Regulates the Relative Distribution of Pneumococcal Nasopharyngeal Density (2017) (11)
Development and characterization of a synthetic DNA, NUversa, to be used as a standard in quantitative polymerase chain reactions for molecular pneumococcal serotyping (2017) (11)
Do acoustically detectable species reflect overall diversity? A case study from Australia’s arid zone (2020) (10)
Visualisations elicit knowledge to refine citizen science technology design: spectrograms resonate with birders (2018) (10)
Reassessing Breeding Investment in Birds: Class-Wide Analysis of Clutch Volume Reveals a Single Outlying Family (2015) (10)
Calls from the Wild: Engaging Citizen Scientist with Animal Sounds (2016) (10)
CO2-Responsive Superabsorbent Hydrogels Capable of >90% Dewatering When Immersed in Water (2021) (10)
Novel application of species richness estimators to predict the host range of parasites. (2017) (9)
Hemiparasites drive heterogeneity in litter arthropods: Implications for woodland insectivorous birds (2019) (9)
Ecology and Conservation of an Exploited Insular Population of Boa constrictor (Squamata: Biodae) on the Cayos Cochinos, Honduras. (2007) (9)
Effects of landscape composition and connectivity on the distribution of an endangered parrot in agricultural landscapes (2014) (8)
Trapped between popular fruit and preferred nest location – cafeterias are poor places to raise a family (2013) (8)
Exploration of Aural & Visual Media About Birds Informs Lessons for Citizen Science Design (2020) (8)
Post-Anthropocene Conservation. (2019) (7)
Listening to Save Wildlife: Lessons Learnt from Use of Acoustic Technology by a Species Recovery Team (2019) (7)
Hopeful Monsters—In Defense of Quests to Rediscover Long‐Lost Species (2017) (7)
Acoustic restoration: Using soundscapes to benchmark and fast‐track recovery of ecological communities (2022) (6)
Climate change can disrupt ecological interactions in mysterious ways: using ecological generalists to forecast community-wide effects (2021) (6)
Towards best-practice management of mistletoes in horticulture (2020) (6)
Breeding biology of the Grey Shrike-thrush (Colluricincla harmonica) (2005) (6)
Chemical profile differences in endemic parasitic weeds: a study of host-parasite chemical profiles in select mistletoe and eucalypt species. (2010) (6)
On tropical mistletoes: Tractable models for evolutionary ecology, ecosystem function, and phytochemistry (2017) (5)
Islands in a sea of foliage: mistletoes as discrete components of forest canopies (2013) (5)
Did Mammals Bring the First Mistletoes into the Treetops? (2020) (5)
The ecology and evolution of the monito del monte, a relict species from the southern South America temperate forests (2021) (5)
On pluralism in ecology: seeing the forest and the trees (2014) (5)
Riding the elevator to extinction: Disjunct arctic-alpine plants of open habitats decline as their more competitive neighbours expand (2022) (4)
Effect of Rainfall on breeding of Grey Shrike-thrushes Colluricincla harmonica (2006) (4)
Subdividing the spectrum: quantifying host specialization in mistletoes (2020) (4)
From pattern to process: towards understanding drivers of diversity in temperate woodlands (2010) (4)
Functional Roles of Parasitic Plants in a Warming World (2022) (3)
Our national parks must be more than playgrounds or paddocks (2013) (3)
Eastern Black Rail detection using semi-automated analysis of long-duration acoustic recordings (2021) (3)
Of mistletoe and mechanisms'drivers of declining biodiversity in remnant woodlands. (2006) (2)
Engaging with Nature Sounds & Citizen Science by Designing for Creative & Contextual Audio Encounters (2021) (2)
Hiding in plain sight: experimental evidence for birds as selective agents for host mimicry in mistletoes (2020) (2)
Mistletoes could moderate drought impacts on birds, but are themselves susceptible to drought-induced dieback (2022) (2)
The Paint-billed Crake Breeding in Costa Rica (1999) (2)
Vocal diversity patterns (2007) (2)
Camera trapping and transect counts yield complementary insights into an endangered island endemic rail (2019) (1)
Continental Islands (2019) (1)
Reflecting Productivity Losses due to Erosion in Physical and Financial Accounts for Agricultural Soils (1994) (1)
Prolific or precarious: a review of the status of Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum [R.Br.] A.DC., Santalaceae) (2021) (1)
Response to Olsen’s question of reliability (2020) (1)
The living dead: Demography of Australian sandalwood in Australia's western rangelands (2022) (1)
Review and analyses of IMEF bird surveys for Lachlan River valley (2006) (1)
The reptile fauna of the Upper Billabong Creek Catchment Area, Southern New South Wales (2008) (1)
Laurance, W. F., and R. O. Bierregaard, Jr., (eds.). 1997. Tropical Forest Remnants: Ecology, Management, and Conservation of Fragmented Communities. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 616 pp (1998) (1)
Veiled Polypore (Cryptoporus volvatus) as a Foraging Substrate for the White-Headed Woodpecker (Picoides albolarvatus) (2018) (1)
Continental Islands in: Encyclopedia of Islands (2009) (0)
Host range and host preferences of Dendrophthoe falcata and Scurrula pulverulenta (Loranthaceae) in the forests of Potohar and adjacent regions (2023) (0)
Grantiella picta, Painted Honeyeater (2012) (0)
Author response for "The Australian Acoustic Observatory" (2021) (0)
EFFECT OF RAINFALL ON BREEDING (0)
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Effectiveness of acoustic indices as indicators of vertebrate biodiversity (2023) (0)
Interacting impacts of drought and fire on bird populations—insights from a long-term study in the Warrumbungles (2022) (0)
House Sparrow as Prey of the Nankeen Night Heron (2016) (0)
Influence of nest box design on internal microclimate: Comparisons of plastic prototypes (2023) (0)
Mistletoe Ecology and Evolution (2013) (0)
Double trouble as feral horse numbers gallop past 25,000 in the Australian Alps (2019) (0)
Temporary Translocation of Entire Mistletoe Plants to Understand the Mechanistic Basis of Animal Foraging Decisions. (2022) (0)
Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity (2018) (0)
Mistletoe specialist frugivores: latterday ‘Johnny Appleseeds’ or self-serving market gardeners? (2013) (0)
An inland record of the Pacific baza at Tibooburra, far north-western New South Wales (2007) (0)
Acoustic restoration: using soundscapes to benchmark and fast-track rehabilitation of ecological communities (2021) (0)
Effects of landscape composition and connectivity on the distribution of an endangered parrot in agricultural landscapes (2014) (0)
What do declining woodland birds eat? A preliminary assessment (2013) (0)
Black Honeyeaters in the Wimmera (2016) (0)
Mistletoe dispersing birds rely on spatial-memory and established search images to find fruiting mistletoes (2019) (0)
A new method to find environmental mechanisms of life history evolution in insectivorous mammals (2017) (0)
A global analysis of avian island diversity-area relationships in the Anthropocene. (2023) (0)
MP's ignorance puts parks in peril (2013) (0)

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