Senior Research Officer
Phone: +61 2 6125 2647
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: ian.davies@anu.edu.au

Ian is a software engineer in the field of simulation modelling working under the direction Dr Geoff Cary.

Ian has developed a variety of dynamic simulation models in collaboration with other researchers from Australia, USA, Europe and Africa. These models examine ecological systems from the perspective of populations, communities, landscapes and biomes to address issues of vegetation dynamics, population viability analysis, fire, grazing, seed dispersal, land use and climate change, and carbon cycle dynamics. He is involved in a project to develop a distributed computer-grid platform for modelling multi-scale ecological systems to provide a common framework for representing ecosystem dynamics.

Ian has been involved in many training workshops in SE Asia, Africa and Europe.

Selected Publications

Cary Geoffrey J., Keane Robert E., Gardner Robert H., Lavorel S., Flannigan M.D., Davies Ian D., Li Chao, Lenihan James M., Rupp T. Scott, Mouillot Florent 2006. Comparison of the sensitivity of Landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather. Landscape Ecology 21:121-137

Grigulis Karl , Lavorel Sandra, Davies Ian D., Dossantos Anabelle, Lloret Francisco and Vila Montserrat 2005. Landscape-scale positive feedbacks between fire and expansion of the large tussock grass, Ampelodesmos mauritanica in Catalan shrublands. Global Change Biology 11: 1042-1053

Gignoux J., Davies I.D. and Hill, D.R.C. 2005.. 3Worlds: a new platform for simulating ecological systems. 1st Open International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. Clermont Ferrand, 10-13 June.

Roxburgh, S.H., Barrett, D.J., Berry S.L., Carter J.O, Davies I.D., Gifford R.M.,

Kirschbaum M.U.F., McBeth B.P., Noble I.R., Parton W.G., Raupach M.R. and Roderick M.L. 2004. A critical review of net primary productivity estimates for the Australian continent. Functional Plant Biology 31: 1049-1059

Gignoux, J., Menaut, J.C., Noble, I.R. & Davies, I.D. 1998. A spatial model of savanna function and dynamics: model description and preliminary results. Dynamics of tropical communities (eds. D.M. Newbery, H.H.T. Prins and N.D. Brown), pp. 361-383. Blackwell scientific publications. Cambridge. ISBN:0521839998

Possingham, H.P. and Davies, I. 1995. ALEX: A population viability analysis model for spatially structured populations. Biological Conservation 73 (2): 143-150.