Research Officer
Phone: +61 2 6125 4669
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: john.stein@anu.edu.au

A forestry graduate from ANU, John returned in 1987 after modelling crop growth and climatic suitability of tree species at CSIRO. His work focuses on the development of methods for spatial analysis of environmental data, with application to his primary field of interest, biodiversity conservation. Interpolation of elevation has been central because of its fundamental importance in developing abiotic data sets of terrain, climatic and surface drainage parameters. These have then been used to create frameworks for assessing biotic data and their interactions with land cover and anthropogenic disturbance. Applications have included bioclimatic profiling of species to predict their distributions, derivation of flow paths to calculate indicators of river disturbance, and classification of catchments as environmental domains.

Selected Publications

Stein, JL, Stein, JA & Nix, HA, (2002) Spatial analysis of anthropogenic river disturbance at regional and continental scales: identifying the wild rivers of Australia. Landscape and Urban Planning 60:1-25

Fischer, J, Lindenmayer, DB, Nix, HA, Stein, JL & Stein, JA, (2001) Climate and animal distribution: a climatic analysis of the Australian marsupial Trichosurus caninus. Journal of Biogeography 28(3):293-304

Green, K, Stein, JA & Dreissen, MM (2008) The projected distributions of Mastacomys fuscus and Rattus lutreolus in south-eastern Australia under a scenario of climate change: potential for increased competition? Wildlife Research 35(2):113-119