Research Programs

Health effects of biomass smoke: Formulating national air quality standards regarding biomass smoke and bushfire management.
Callitris growth and rainforest boundaries as bio-indicators for environmental change: Examining important ecological responses to climate change.
Landscape ecology in southwest Tasmania: Sam Wood is throwing the landscape ecology toolbox at the ecosystems of southwest Tasmania.
The Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas: Enabling online accessibility to Australasia's largest collection of pollen and spores.
Modelling and control of mosquito-borne diseases: Analysing Mosquito demographics to determine more effective disease control programs.
Modelling feral swamp buffalo control: Predictive modelling to determine the most-effective culling strategy for feral buffalo to control exotic diseases.
Callitris tree rings as indicators of environmental change: Production of over 200 years of climate data to understand past climate variability.
Pyrogeography - Fire's place in earth system science: A thought experiment addressing the role of fire from an evolutionary perspective.
Home range shifts in response to lethal control: Modelling wallaby home ranges to determine effectiveness of lethal control.
Carbon dating to investigate sedge moorland dynamics: Understanding forest mosaics in southwest Tasmania.
Tree ring and carbon techniques to age Eucalyptus regnans: Approaches that have found E. regnans to be as old as 500 years.
Spatio-temporal vegatation boundaries in southwest Tasmania: The relationship between boundary dynamics and environmental variables to explore the role of the fire-vegetation-soil fertility feedbacks.
Demographics of Callitris in the West MacDonnell Ranges: Investigating environmental factors which determine the plant's distribution.
Callitris and environmental stresses: The eco-physiology of Callitris is being tested under severe drought and CO2 levels.
Modelling the distribution of Australian rainforests: Determining variables most closely correlated with rainforest distribution to evaluate the processes that allow rainforests to persist in certain areas.
The "Four Corners" project: What makes Callitris trees grow, and when?
Death of a river catchment: Spatial patterns of tree decline in the Clyde River catchment, Tasmania

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