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Dr David Mackay

Research Fellow - School of Environmental and Rural Science

Biography

David is a plant ecologist with over 25 years of experience working in terrestrial ecosystems. His primary focus has been on plant ecology and management including translocations, plant biology, plant systematics, plant landscape genetics, seed-bank dynamics, fire ecology, and targeting reproductive ecology as an avenue for understanding and potentially improving the conservation status of threatened species and communities, or as a route for controlling weedy species.

He has experience working in temperate and tropical ecosystems in Australia, PNG and Malaysia. He has worked on many projects as an ecological consultant to the NSW and Commonwealth environment agencies.

David lectures in Ecology and Botany at the University of New England.

David is currently the team leader in the Aquatic Ecology and Restoration team at UNE for the terrestrial vegetation aspect of the MER project in the Gwydir and Warrego Wetlands.

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.