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Myralyn
Abasolo is exploring ways to assess and manage the risk of gene
flow from Corymbia plantations.
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Muhammad Alam
is selecting suitable harvesting systems using LiDAR
technology.
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Nerida
Anderson is examining the connection between the visual
aesthetics of rural landscapes and the social acceptability of
timber plantations for members of the public.
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Tanya Bailey is
looking at how to help eucalypts regenerate in degraded remnants
within production landscapes by studying natural regenerative
processes in healthy forests. |
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Himlal Baral
is exploring trade-offs between timber and other ecosystem services
from planted forests.
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Jie-Lian Beh is
studying classification of forest soils by remote sensing. |
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Kasia
Bialkowski is investigating microbial biodiversity and forest
soils. |
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David Blackburn
is studying improvement of eucalypt solid wood products. |
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Christina
Borzak is studying the genetic and environmental variation in
phytochemistry and browsing susceptibility in Eucalyptus
globulus. |
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Ryan Burrows
is assessing the effects of forest management on biogeochemical
cycling and ecosystem processes in small headwater
streams.
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Lisa Cawthen is
exploring the value of forest remnants to Microchiropteron
bats.
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Lain Dare is
studying community engagement in the Australian forest
industry. |
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Caroline Dunn
is studying 'community attitudes research' and how it is applied to
the issue of plantation forestry.
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Archana Gauli
is studying genetic diversity in Eucalyptus
pauciflora.
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Melissa Gordon
is investigating the role of community engagement and corporate
social responsibility in resolving conflict over
plantations.
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Darren Grant is
studying the use of soil measurements to predict plantation
productivity. |
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Sara Hadjigol
is studying the genetic control of frost resistance at the
molecular level in Eucalyptus globulus ssp.
globulus
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Sandra
Hawthorne is working on a model that will predict the long-term
impact of thinning on water yield. |
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Tracey Hollings
is assessing the ecosystem consequences of the decline of the
Tasmanian devil population. |
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Bryony Horton
is studying plant root fungus (mycorrhiza) as an indicator of
declining forest health in high altitude wet and dry eucalypt
forest in Tasmania. |
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Corey Hudson
is applying diversity array technology (DArT) to eucalypt
genomics.
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Steve Husband
is exploring the application of GPS guidance technology and methods
to plantation site preparation machinery and operations. |
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Paul Killey is
studying the physiological response and growth of subtropical
eucalypts following repeated pruning.
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Mayumi Knight
of the University of Melbourne will investigate birds' and bats'
use of remnants within different matrix types. Read a report on
Mayumi's trip to the Green Triangle in the newsletter of the
Biodiversity Project, BioBuzz 6.
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Steve Lane is
exploring how to improve efficiency of prediction of tree
size-class distributions using nonparametric estimation.
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Matthew
Larcombe is assessing the risk of gene flow from eucalypt
plantations into native eucalypt forests
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David
Lazaridis is using shrinkage regression to help predict tree
mortality.
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Andrea Leys
studies the effectiveness of using participatory modelling
techniques to address and resolve natural resource issues in rural
communites with a developing plantation forestry industry. |
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Peter Lezaich
is investigating landscape modelling of social and economic change
in rural communities experiencing plantation expansion. |
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Nathalie Long
is studying water-use efficiency in Eucalyptus globulus
plantations; particularly looking at genetic variability using
carbon isotope discrimination.
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Edwina Loxton
is exploring the socio-economic impacts of closing native forests
on forest workers and their families.
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Dinesh Babu
Madhavan is studying the measurement and use of edaphic
variables to predict plantation growth and sustainability. |
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Melinda Mylek
is surveying community attitudes and perceptions about
fuel-modification strategies.
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Ian Riley is
investigating temporal and spatial variation of organic carbon in
smallhead water steams
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Robyn Scott
studies the effects of variable retention harvesting on
productivity and growth in wet eucalypt forests. |
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Tim Sexton is
looking into the application of molecular genetics to improve wood
quality in Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis). |
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Mia Spain is
investigating the effects of spacing and thinning on crown
development and wood quality in subtropical eucalypt
plantations. |
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Helen Stephens
is investigating aggregated retention as a management strategy for
conservation of small to medium-sized native mammals in old growth
forestry. |
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Sarah Tassell
is studying the impact of the superb lyrebird (Menura
novaehollandiae) on Tasmanian forest ecosystems. |
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Katherine
Taylor is doing a a detailed study of Mycosphaerella
cryptica and Mycosphaerella nubilosa in eastern and
Western Australia. |
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Michael Todd is
looking at the ecological requirements of the Tasmanian masked owl
Tyto novaehollandiae castanops. |
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Shannon Troy
is investigating the ecology of the spotted-tailed quoll in
Tasmania, focussing on their ecology and habitat use in production
forest landscapes.
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Maximilian
Wentzel is studying the use of near-infrared reflectance
spectroscopy to detect tension wood in Eucalyptus globulus
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Suzanne
Witteveen is characterising flow regimes of forested catchments
under drought. |
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Belinda Yaxley
is studying the biology and conservation ecology of selected
log-dwelling beetle species (in Tasmania's southern forests). |
