Auld, Tony D.   (fl.1980s - 2000s)

Tony has a BSc (Hons) and PhD from University of Sydney.

He is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and a Professorial Fellow at University of Wollongong and University of New South Wales.

He leads a small team of scientists at the Office of Environment and Heritage working on the impacts of fire regimes on flora and fauna, extinction risk assessment for threatened species and ecosystems, flora and fauna conservation, vegetation dynamics and classification and developing and implementing on ground management responses to threatening processes and changing climate impacts.

In his own words (2022):

"Back in the early 1990s, I was actively involved with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service working on plant and ecosystem conservation in fire prone systems, investigating the lack of ongoing regeneration of a number of long-lived arid trees and working with a national team looking at the identification of threatened flora.
Several colleagues and myself were just formulating concepts around thresholds of tolerance of plant species to high fire frequency and what fire management was required to minimise adverse impacts.

"30 years later, a warming climate has brought new threats and exacerbated the existing ones. The fire threshold work has been embedded in NSW fire management planning for over a decade and is now seeing the consideration of updates to incorporate thresholds of impact that relate to other components of the fire regime (severity and season).
Threatened species listing is based on best practice international guidelines that have been adopted across Australia (IUCN Red List species criteria), while some jurisdictions have also adopted IUCN Red List for ecosystems criteria."

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tony-Auld
https://www.nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au/people/tony-auld
Australasian Plant Conservation, Vol.30, No.3, February 2022, p.8

Portrait Photo: www.nespthreatenedspecies.edu.au/people/tony-auld.

Collecting localities for 'Auld, T. and Auld, T.D.' from AVH (2025)

Data from 28 specimens