Lindy Lumsden

Linda Faye "Lindy" Lumsden (* 1955 in Foster ) is an Australian mammal login . Her main research interests are bats .

Life

In 1975 Lumsden earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Melbourne . In 2004 she was with the dissertation The ecology and conservation of insectivorous bats in rural landscapes to Ph.D. PhD from Deakin University .

She has been with the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (ARI) in Melbourne since 1982 . She was initially a member of the Wildlife Survey Team, which conducted field studies of mammals across Victoria to aid Land Conservation Council decisions on land use planning. From 1991 to 1994 Lumsden worked on a large project to conserve insectivorous bats in the remaining vegetation in rural areas in northern Victoria. From 1995 to 2000 she worked on an extensive collaborative project in the Box-Ironbark region of Victoria, investigating the extinction of vertebrate fauna.

In 1994 Lumsden had her first research visit to Christmas Island to prepare a rescue plan for the Christmas Island pipistrelle ( Pipistrellus murrayi ), which was published in 2004. On her second visit in 1998 she noticed a sharp decrease in the population of the species in the west of the island and an overall decline in the population. In another study in 2005, it found a population decline of 90 percent since 1994. During an expedition in January 2009, only four specimens were counted and in August 2009 Lumsden was part of a team of scientists who could only locate one specimen. Since then, the species has been considered extinct.

From 2004 to 2008 Lumsden was the director of the Threatened Fauna Species Program at ARI, where she conducted several targeted research projects and worked on many collaborative projects. Since November 2008 she has been a senior scientist and head of the wildlife ecology department at ARI, where she works with a team of scientists and technicians and is responsible for many projects. She led the priority project A New Strategic Approach to Government Biodiversity Management and developed an effective approach to managing threatened species that offers opportunities for sustainable timber production while embracing biodiversity on a landscape scale.

Lumsden's research projects included studying the conservation needs of bats in agricultural landscapes in Victoria. Another species that Lumsden deals with is the critically endangered squirrel bucket ( Gymnobelideus leadbeateri ). She has published a total of 34 specialist articles, 39 book chapters (including for Peter Menkhorst: Mammals of Victoria , 1995 and for Steve van Dyck & Ronald Strahan : Mammals of Australia , 2008) and 27 popular science articles and notes.

Lumsden took part in numerous excursions to study bats, including in 1988 to the Kimberley region of Western Australia , in 1998 on an expedition of the Australian Museum to Vanuatu , in 1993 with Roger Coles on an expedition of the Royal Geographic Society of Queensland to Cape-York Peninsula , 1991 and 1995 in collaboration with Ken Geluso in the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico , in 1996 to Codfish Island , New Zealand , to study a population of the New Zealand lesser bat , in September 1996 on an expedition from La Trobe University under the direction by Ian Thornton to the volcanic island of Krakatau for a study on the resettlement by bats, in 1998 to Brazil, 1999 to Kununurra in the Kimberley region, in 2000 to England to research the hunting behavior of the great horseshoe bat , 2004 to Taiwan and 2005 to Swaziland , where she was researching the echolocation of horseshoe bats and round-leaf noses with Ara Monadjem .

Lumsden is a member of the IUCN / SSC Chiroptera Specialist Group, a member of the editorial board of Acta Chiropterologica , a vice president and past president of the Australasian Bat Society, and a past president of the Australian Mammal Society .

Dedication names

In 2014, the Lumsden bulldog bat ( Ozimops lumsdenae ) was named after Lindy Lumsden.

literature

• David Lindenmayer, Andrew Bennett, Richard Hobbs: Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management CSIRO Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-0-64310-037-4 , p. 141 (short biography)
• John Woinarski : Personal perspectives, responsvives, and esponsibilities In: A Bat's End: The Christmas Island Pipistrelle and Modern Extinction in Australia Csiro Publishing, 2018, ISBN 978-1-486-30863-7 , pp. 188-196 (section on Lumsdens Research on the Christmas Island Pipebat).

Web links

• Bibliography at Google Scholar

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Schulz, Linda F. Lumsden: National Recovery Plan for the Christmas Island Pipistrelle Pipistrellus murrayi Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2004, ISBN 0-642-55012-3