Lesley Brooker Explained

Lesley Brooker
Known For:Ornithology
Occupation:CSIRO

Lesley Brooker is an Australian ornithologist based in Western Australia following retirement from a career with the CSIRO's Division of Wildlife Research. There she worked, as a database manager and computer modeller, on developing methodologies for the re-design and restoration of agricultural lands for bird conservation. Since then, she has collaborated with her husband Michael Brooker in studies on cuckoo evolution, population ecology of fairy-wrens[1] and spatial dynamics of birds in fragmented landscapes.[2]

Awards

In 2004 she was awarded the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union's D.L. Serventy Medal which recognises excellence in published work on birds in the Australasian region.

Career

Brooker has contributed to ornithological research in Australia, in various states across Australia, including Western Australia, and Queensland, as well as researching and publishing on Explorers, as well as biodiversity, for over thirty years.[3] [4] Her work involved research on Wedge-Tailed Eagles, Blue-breasted Fairy wrens[5] [6] and ecosystem connectivity.[7] Booker was also a trip leader for the Western Australian Branch of Birdlife Australia and contributed to the Birds in the Great Western Woodlands, a joint project between BirdLife Australia and The Nature Conservancy [8]

Brooker has also contributed to research on paternity of bird families, in Molecular Ecology.[9]

She has published on animal dispersals, and habitat quality, on corridor use and connectivity.[10] Brooker served on the Emu advisory committee.

Selected works[11]

References

Olsen, Penny. (2005). D.L. Serventy Medal 2005: Citation. Lesley and Michael Brooker. Emu 105: 341.

Notes and References

  1. Brooker. Michael. Brooker. Lesley. 1997. Dispersal of the Blue-breasted Fairy-wren in fragmented habitat in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology. en. 3. 3. 295–300. 10.1071/pc970295. 2204-4604.
  2. Web site: Biodiversity - The Western Australian Naturalist reference - PDF .
  3. Web site: CSIRO .
  4. Web site: Bird Survey .
  5. Web site: 2016-02-01 . South Australian Ornithologist, Volume 39 - Birds SA . 2023-10-08 . en-AU.
  6. Brooker . Michael . Brooker . Lesley . 2001 . Breeding biology, reproductive success and survival of blue-breasted fairy-wrens in fragmented habitat in the Western Australian wheatbelt . Wildlife Research . en . 28 . 2 . 205–214 . 10.1071/wr00012 . 1448-5494.
  7. Web site: Ornithology . 7 October 2023 . academic.oup.com.
  8. Web site: Birdlife Report .
  9. Brouwer . Lyanne . van de Pol . Martijn . Aranzamendi . Nataly Hidalgo . Bain . Glen . Baldassarre . Daniel T. . Brooker . Lesley C. . Brooker . Michael G. . Colombelli‐Négrel . Diane . Enbody . Erik . Gielow . Kurt . Hall . Michelle L. . Johnson . Allison E. . Karubian . Jordan . Kingma . Sjouke A. . Kleindorfer . Sonia . December 2017 . Multiple hypotheses explain variation in extra‐pair paternity at different levels in a single bird family . Molecular Ecology . en . 26 . 23 . 6717–6729 . 10.1111/mec.14385 . 29068511 . 11343/293837 . 4871268 . 0962-1083. free .
  10. Brooker . Lesley . Brooker . Michael . Cale . Peter . 1999-03-27 . Animal Dispersal in Fragmented Habitat: Measuring Habitat Connectivity, Corridor Use, and Dispersal Mortality . Ecology and Society . en . 3 . 1 . 10.5751/ES-00109-030104 . 10535/2810 . 1708-3087. free .
  11. Web site: Author: "Brooker, Lesley, 1942-" - Catalogue National Library of Australia Search Results . 2023-10-07 . catalogue.nla.gov.au . en.
  12. Web site: Expedition Eastward from Northam by Lesley Brooker (2006) . 2023-10-07 . en.
  13. Web site: Explorers routes revisted : Moore expeditions 1836 ; Drummond expeditions 1841-1842 / compiled and... - Catalogue National Library of Australia . 2023-10-07 . catalogue.nla.gov.au . en.
  14. Web site: Explorers Routes Revisited . 2023-10-07 . www.hesperianpress.com.
  15. Web site: Explorers routes revisited : Giles 1875 expedition / compiled and edited by Lesley Brooker - Catalogue National Library of Australia . 2023-10-07 . catalogue.nla.gov.au . en.

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