Festschrift initiative: Celebrating Distinguished Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick AM

Abstract

This Festschrift celebrates the distinguished 52‐year academic career of Jamie Kirkpatrick. All thirteen publications by Kirkpatrick in Geographical Research are curated as a virtual issue. Following a consultation process, six papers are highlighted in more detail. These were published from volume 13 to the latest volume. Kirkpatrick's research activities over the past five decades can be broadly sequenced into nine subject areas: (1) eucalypt genecology; (2) bush remnants in cities; (3) biogeography; (4) plant community survey and conservation planning; (5) fire ecology and management; (6) rare species ecology and management; (7) the politics of environment; (8) the socioecology of conservation in rural areas and gardens; and (9) biogeomorphology. His many publications and wide participation in public processes have, according to his own assessment, been a mixture of effective in changing the world, prescient, and wrong.

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“…This year, we have decided to lead each issue with a commentary by one of our associate editors-and the inaugural offering is from Patrick Moss and focuses on Australian peatlands and gaps in research about them, which should surely be seen as an enticing invitation to readers to consider how to address those opportunities for new research. We then include Steve Turton's (2022) Festschrift in honour of Distinguished Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick, which is also available online here.…”