Rate My Professor Sean Tomlinson

Tomlinson's academic interests lie in conservation physiology, biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, wildlife physiology, and seed ecology, with an emphasis on producing evidence-based insights for conservation policy and practice. He has published extensively in leading journals, including lead authorship on "Reconstructing Fox Invasion of Australia: A Process-Based Approach Using Historical Sightings" (Diversity and Distributions, 2025), which modeled the rapid continental invasion of red foxes using historical records; "Metabolic rate of angiosperm seeds: effects of allometry, phylogeny and seed mass" (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2025); and "Leveraging the value of conservation physiology for ecological restoration" (Restoration Ecology, 2022). Additional key publications encompass "One hundred research questions in conservation physiology for generating actionable evidence to inform conservation policy and practice" (Conservation Physiology, 2021), research reconstructing mechanisms behind New Zealand moa extinctions linked to human settlement (2025), flexibility in thermoregulatory physiology of dunnarts (Sminthopsis macroura and Sminthopsis ooldea), and assessments of mine site restoration using lizard tracking. As an Associate Editor for Conservation Physiology, Tomlinson's contributions have informed invasive species management, extinction risk modeling, and habitat rehabilitation strategies, with findings featured in Curtin University media releases.