Tom Baker

Position	Senior Research Fellow
Address	Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science University of Melbourne 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia
E-Mail	tgbaker@unimelb.edu.au
Phone	+61 3 9250 6836

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Forest Science (Hons), University of Melbourne (1977)

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne (1982)

Research experience and interests:

• Distribution and cycling of nutrients in forests and plantations, including impacts of fire and mechanical disturbance on nutrient availability in forest soils

• Development and amelioration of soil acidity under agricultural systems

• Impacts of saline or nutrient-rich irrigation water on growth, nutrient uptake and soil properties in plantations

• Plantation growth in relation to site factors (climate, soils), and growth responses to silvicultural treatment (cultivation, weeding, fertiliser, thinning, pruning)