Dr. Darren Le Roux

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Contact email:darren.leroux@anu.edu.au
BSc Hons, Msc, PhD (ANU)
Honorary Senior Lecturer

Darren is an Ecologist with the ACT Government Parks and Conservation Service. He is responsible for the design and implementation of large-scale remediation and restoration construction projects within the PCS Estate, including developing novel methods to restore and monitor native grasslands and woodlands. His research interests include restoration ecology, urban biodiversity and conservation biology.

Le Roux, D. S., Ikin, K., Lindenmayer, D. B., Manning, A. D., & Gibbons, P. (2014). The future of large old trees in urban landscapes. PloS one, 9(6), e99403.

Le Roux, D. S., Ikin, K., Lindenmayer, D. B., Blanchard, W., Manning, A. D., & Gibbons, P. (2014). Reduced availability of habitat structures in urban landscapes: implications for policy and practice. Landscape and Urban Planning, 125, 57-64.

Ikin, K., Le Roux, D. S., Rayner, L., Villaseñor, N. R., Eyles, K., Gibbons, P., ... & Lindenmayer, D. B. (2015). Key lessons for achieving biodiversity‐sensitive cities and towns. Ecological Management & Restoration, 16(3), 206-214.

Le Roux, D. S., Ikin, K., Lindenmayer, D. B., Manning, A. D., & Gibbons, P. (2015). Single large or several small? Applying biogeographic principles to tree-level conservation and biodiversity offsets. Biological conservation, 191, 558-566.

Gibbons, P., Evans, M. C., Maron, M., Gordon, A., Le Roux, D., von Hase, A., ... & Possingham, H. P. (2016). A loss‐gain calculator for biodiversity offsets and the circumstances in which no net loss is feasible. Conservation Letters, 9(4), 252-259.

Le Roux, D. S., Ikin, K., Lindenmayer, D. B., Bistricer, G., Manning, A. D., & Gibbons, P. (2016). Effects of entrance size, tree size and landscape context on nest box occupancy: Considerations for management and biodiversity offsets. Forest Ecology and Management, 366, 135-142.

Le Roux, D. S., Ikin, K., Lindenmayer, D. B., Manning, A. D., & Gibbons, P. (2018). The value of scattered trees for wildlife: Contrasting effects of landscape context and tree size. Diversity and Distributions, 24(1), 69-81.

Le Roux, D. S., Ikin, K., Lindenmayer, D. B., Bistricer, G., Manning, A. D., & Gibbons, P. (2016). Enriching small trees with artificial nest boxes cannot mimic the value of large trees for hollow‐nesting birds. Restoration Ecology, 24(2), 252-258.

Whitelaw, M., Hwang, J., & Le Roux, D. (2021). Design collaboration and exaptation in a habitat restoration project. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 7(2), 223-241.

Le Roux, D. S., & Waas, J. R. (2012). Do long-tailed bats alter their evening activity in response to aircraft noise?. Acta Chiropterologica, 14(1), 111-120.

Le Roux, D. S., Le Roux, N. N., & Waas, J. R. (2014). Spatial and temporal variation in long-tailed bat echolocation activity in a New Zealand city. New Zealand journal of zoology, 41(1), 21-31.

Hannan, L., Le Roux, D. S., Milner, R. N. C., & Gibbons, P. (2019). Erecting dead trees and utility poles to offset the loss of mature trees. Biological conservation, 236, 340-346.