Melbourne School of Land and Environment Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science

Jennifer Brooks

 
Position Research Assistant - Forest and Fire Ecology Group
Address Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science
Melbourne School of Land and Environment
University of Melbourne, Creswick Campus
Water St, Creswick, Victoria, 3363, Australia
Email brooks@unimelb.edu.au
Phone
Fax
+61 3 5321 4256
+61 3 53214 277
Photo: Jennifer Brooks

Background/Education

  • BSc Hons (Ecology), University of Queensland, Australia, 2006.  “Mating patterns and population genetic structure of spotted gums in natural forest”.
  • BSc (Ecology and Zoology)/ BA (Art History) dual degree, University of Queensland, Australia, 2005.

Research

Current research

  • Effects of fire on biodiversity and ecosystem processes.  Dr Alan York, Dr Kevin Tolhurst and Dr Tina Bell.
  • Root specialisations in the Fabaceae.  Dr Tina Bell.

 

Phascogale   Prescribed Burn
Brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), Wombat Forest  © J. Brooks   Prescribed burn, Wombat Forest  © A. Ashton


Previous research

  • Cybernose project (Food Futures Flagship, CSIRO).  Dr Stephen Trowell and Dr Amalia Berna.
  • Oviposition preferences of diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) (Landscape Management of Invertebrate Pests, CSIRO).  Dr Hainan Gu.
  • Population genetic structure and reproductive biology of spotted gum (Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata) (Honours thesis research, UQ).  Supervisors Dr Peer Schenk, Dr Cecile Bacles, Dr David Lee and Professor Andrew Lowe.

Publications and Presentations

Publications

Bacles CFE, Brooks J, Lee DJ, Schenk PM, Lowe AJ, Kremer A.  2009.  Reproductive biology of Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata and effective pollination across its native range in Queensland, Australia.  Southern Forests 71 125-132.

Abstracted oral presentations

Bacles CFE, Brooks J, Lee DJ, Schenk P, Lowe A and Kremer A. Reproductive biology of Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata and effective pollen-mediated gene flow across its native range. Proceedings IUFRO Working Group 2.08.03, Eucalypts and Diversity: Balancing Productivity and Sustainability, IUFRO, Durban, South Africa, 22-26 October 2007, pp. 1–11.

Bacles CFE, Brooks J, Lee DJ, Schenk P, Lowe AJ and Kremer A.  Pollinator visitation, flowering phenology and effective pollen-mediated gene flow in Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata across its native range.  ENTO ‘07.  The Royal Entomological Society National Meeting, Edinburgh, UK, 16-18 July 2007.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

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