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

Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science - Recent publications

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

2008

Accepted papers in ISI listed journals

Collett, N.G. and Elms, S.R. (2008). The control of sirex wasp using biological control agents in Victoria, Australia. Agricultural and Forest Entomology (accepted).

Tausz M, Merchant A, Kruse J, Samsa G, Adams MA (2008) Estimation of drought-related limitations to mid-rotation aged plantation grown Eucalyptus globulus by phloem sap analysis. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 844-848. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.045

Livesley S.J., Miehle P., Weston C.J., Kiese R., Butterbach-Bahl K., Arndt S.K. (2008) Soil-based greenhouse gas exchange in a native eucalypt woodland, a clover-grass pasture and a P. radiata and E. globulus plantation Global Change Biology (accepted 14 May 2008, in press)

Merchant A., Arndt S.K., Callister A.N., Adams M.A. (2008) How does Eucalyptus leptophylla (F. Muell) cope with naturally saline conditions in arid Australia? Environmental and Experimental Botany (in press, accepted 14.05.08)

Nevill P, Bossinger G, Vaillancourt R, Ades P (in press) Interspecific amplification of Eucalypt microsatellite loci for members of the subgenus Eucalyptus. Molecular Ecology Resources.

Gleeson D, Hermann AM, Livesley SJ, Murphy DV (in press) Influence of water potential on nitrification and structure of nitrifying bacterial communities in semi arid soils. Applied Soil Ecology doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2008.02.005. 

Di Stefano J, Newell GR (in press). Diet selection by the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) in a landscape modified by timber harvesting: feeding strategies under conditions of changed food availability.  Journal of Mammalogy (Accepted March 31 2008).

Di Stefano J, York A, Swan M, Greenfield A, Coulson G (in press)  Habitat selection by the swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) in relation to diel period, food and shelter.  Austral Ecology (Accepted 17th February 2008)

 Smeatham G, Ades P, Ford R. (in press) Development of microsatellite markers for the grapevine fungal pathogen Phaeomoniella chlamydospora. Molecular Ecology Resources (Accepted 23/1/08).

 Christie FJ, Hochuli DF (in press).  Responses of wasp communities to urbanization: effects on community resilience and species diversity.  Journal of Insect Conservation (Accepted February 2008).

 Lane PNJ, Sheridan PJ, Noske PJ, Sherwin CB. (in press) Phosphorus and nitrogen exports from SE Australian forests following wildfire. Journal of Hydrology (Accepted 26/7/08)

Takken I, Croke JC, Lane PNJ.  (in press) Thresholds for gully initiation at road drain outlets.  Catena (Accepted 14/7/08)

 

Other accepted papers, book chapters

Hochuli DF, Christie FJ, Lomov B (in press) Terrestrial invertebrates in urban environments: Can they be used to reveal disruptions to fundamental ecological processes? Chapter 2 In McDonnell, M.J., Hahs, A., and Breuste, J. (Eds). Comparative Ecology of Cities and Towns.

Bennett, A and Coulson, G, 2008. Evaluation of an exclusion plot design for determining the impacts of native and exotic herbivores on forest understoreys. Australian Mammalogy 30: (Accepted 13 May 2008)

Smith DI, Hodda M, Smith IW, Nambiar L, Pascoe IG & Aldaoud R. (2008). Bursaphelenchus hunanensis associated with dying Pinus species in Victoria, Australia. Australasian Plant Disease Notes, 3, pp 93-95

Smith D, Smith I, Collett & Elms S. (2008). Forest health surveillance in Victoria. Australian Forestry 71, 188-195.

M. Daian , A. Taube , G. Torgovnikov , G. Daian, Y. Shramkov (2008) Computer Modelling of the Energy Distribution within Wood throughout Microwave Processing. Computers, Materials, & Continua (21st of August 2008).

Bell TL, Adams MA (2008) Smoke from wildfires and prescribed burning in Australia: effects on human health and ecosystems. In: Forest Fires and Air Pollution Issues, A Bytnerowicz, M Arbaugh, C Andersen, A Riebau (eds), Developments in Environmental Science Series, Elsevier.

 

Papers in ISI listed journals

Ahmed BM, French JRJ (2008) Laboratory bioassay on termite wood consumption using two different substrates (isoptera) Sociobiology 51, 141-150

Arndt SK, Livesley SJ, Merchant A, Bleby TM, Grierson PF (2008) Quercitol and osmotic adaptation of field-grown Eucalyptus under seasonal drought stress. Plant Cell and Environment 31, 915-924. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01803.x

Bennett LT, Kasel S, Tibbits J (2008) Non-parametric multivariate comparisons of soil fungal composition: sensitivity to thresholds and indications of structural redundancy. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 1601-1611. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.01.008 

Butt D, Dowling K, Vinden P (2008) Assessment of cadmium distribution in some Australian krasnozems by sequential extraction. Water Air and Soil Pollution 190, 157-169.

Callister AN, Arndt SK, Ades PK, Merchant A, Rowell D, Adams MA (2008) Leaf osmotic potential of Eucalyptus hybrids responds differently to freezing and drought stresses and with little clone variation. Tree Physiology 28,1297-1304.

Castro A, Stulen I, De Kok LJ Atmospheric NH3 as plant nutrient: A case study with Brassica oleracea. Environmental Pollution 154, 467-472.

Clarke B, Symons R, Porter N, Marriott P, Blackbeard J, Ades P (2008) Dioxin-like compounds in Australian sewage sludge – review and national survey. Chemosphere 72, 1215-1228.

Dalal R.C., Allen D.E., Livesley S.J. & Richards G. (2008) Magnitude and biophysical regulators of methane emission and consumption in the Australian agricultural, forest, and submerged landscapes: a review. Plant and Soil, 309, 43-76.

Fox JC, Bi HQ, Ades PK (2008) Modelling spatial dependence in an irregular natural forest. Silva Fennica 42, 35-48.

Fox JC, Hamilton F, Ades PK (2008) Models of tree-level hollow incidence in Victorian State forests. Forest Ecology and Management 255, 2846-2857.

Haberer K, Herbinger K, Alexou M, Rennenberg H, Tausz M (2008) Effects of drought and canopy ozone exposure on antioxidants in fine roots of mature European beech (Fagus sylvatica). Tree Physiology 28, 713-719.

Harris GA, Torgovnikov G, Vinden P, Brodie GI, Shaginov A (2008) Microwave pretreatment of backsawn messmate boards to improve drying quality: Part 1. Drying Technology 26, 579 - 584.

Hickey GM, Innes JL (2008) Indicators for demonstrating sustainable forest management in British Columbia, Canada: An international review. Ecological Indicators 8, 131-140.

Hopmans P, Collett NC, Smith IW, Elms SR (2008) Growth and nutrition of Pinus radiata in response to fertilizer applied after thinning and interaction with defoliation associated with Essigella califomica. Forest Ecology and Management 255, 2118-2128. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.12.020

Isenegger DA, Ades PK, Ford R, Taylor PWJ. (2008) Status of the Botrytis cinerea species complex and microsatellite analysis of transposon types in South Asia and Australia. Fungal Diversity 29, 17-26.

Kahmen A, Simonin K, Tu KP, Merchant A, Callister A, Siegwolf R, Dawson TE, Arndt SK (2008) Effects of environmental parameters, leaf physiological properties and leaf water relations on leaf water delta O-18 enrichment in different Eucalyptus species. Plant Cell and Environment 31, 738-751. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01784.x

Kasel S, Bennett LT, Tibbits J (2008) Land use influences soil fungal community composition across central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40, 1724-1732. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.02.011  

Kodama N., Barnard R.L., Salmon Y., Weston C., Ferrio J.P., Holst J., Werner R.A., Saurer M., Rennenberg H., Buchmann N. & Gessler A. (2008) Temporal dynamics of the carbon isotope composition in a Pinus sylvestris stand: from newly assimilated organic carbon to respired carbon dioxide. Oecologia, 156, 737-750.

Koralewska A., Stuiver C.E.E., Posthumus F.S., Kopriva S., Hawkesford M.J. & De Kok L.J. (2008) Regulation of sulfate uptake, expression of the sulfate transporters Sultr1;1 and Sultr1;2, and APS reductase in Chinese cabbage (Brassica pekinensis) as affected by atmospheric H2S nutrition and sulfate deprivation. Functional Plant Biology, 35, 318-327 IF 2.375

Kruse J, Adams MA (2008a) Sensitivity of respiratory metabolism and efficiency to foliar nitrogen during growth and maintenance. Global Change Biology 14, 1233-1251. IF 4.786

Kruse J, Adams MA (2008b) Three parameters comprehensively describe the temperature response of respiratory oxygen reduction. Plant Cell and Environment 31, 954-967. IF 4.497

Kruse J, Hopmans P, Adams MA (2008) Temperature responses are a window to the physiology of dark respiration: differences between CO2 release and O2 reduction shed light on energy conservation. Plant Cell and Environment 31, 901-914. IF 4.497

Livesley S.J., Eckard R. & Arndt S.K. (2008) Nitrous oxide and methane flux in Australian and New Zealand landscapes: measurements, modeling and mitigation. Plant and Soil, 309, 1-4 doi: 10.1007/s11104-008-9674-5

Livesley S.J., Kiese R., Graham J., Weston C.J., Butterbach-Bahl K. & Arndt S.K. (2008) Trace gas flux and the influence of short-term soil water and temperature dynamics in Australian sheep grazed pastures of differing productivity. Plant and Soil, 309, 89-103 doi: 10.1007/s11104-008-9647-8

Meers TL, Bell TL, Enright NJ, Kasel S (2008) Role of plant functional traits in determining vegetation composition of abandoned grazing land in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 19, 515-524. doi: 10.3170/2008-8-18401

Oliveras I, Bell T (2008) An analysis of the Australin literature on prescribed burning.  Journal of Forestry 106 31-37 IF 1.259

Posch S, Warren CR, Kruse J, Guttenberger H, Adams MA (2008) Nitrogen allocation and the fate of absorbed light in 21-year-old Pinus radiata. Tree Physiology 28, 375-384. IF 2.141

Posch S, Warren CR, Adams MA, Guttenberger H (in press) Photoprotective carotenoids and antioxidants are more affected by canopy position than by nitrogen supply in 21-year-old Pinus radiata. Functional Plant Biology 35, 470-482. IF 2.375

Przewloka SR, Crawford DM, Rammer DR, Buckner DL, Woodward BM, Li G, Nicholas DD (2008) Assessment of biodeterioration for the screening of new wood preservatives: Calculation of stiffness loss in rapid decay testing. Holzforschung 62, 270-276. IF 0.811

Przewloka SR, Shearer BJ (2008) Effects of ellagic acid and derivatives thereof on water repellency and dimensional stability. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 20, 132-138. IF 0.287

Ranatunga K, Keenan RJ, Wullschleger SD, Post WA, Tharp ML (2008) Effects of harvest management practices on forest biomass and soil carbon in eucalypt forests in New South Wales, Australia: Simulations with the forest succession model LINKAGES. Forest Ecology and Management 255, 2407-2415. IF 1.579

Sheridan GJ, Noske PJ, Lane PNJ, Sherwin CB (2008) Using rainfall simulation and site measurements to predict annual interrill erodibility and phosphorus generation rates from unsealed forest roads: Validation against in-situ erosion measurements. Catena 73, 49-62. IF 1.346

Takken I, Croke J, Lane P (2008) A methodology to assess the delivery of road runoff in forestry environments. Hydrological Processes 22, 254-264. IF 1.798

Zohar Y., Gafni A., Morris J. & Shalhevet S. (2008) Eucalyptus plantations in Israel: an assessment of economic and environmental viability. New Forests, 36, 135-157 IF 0.733

 

Peer reviewed bookchapters etc.

Zhao FJ, Tausz M, De Kok LJ (2008) Role of sulfur for plant production in agricultural and natural ecosystems. - In: Sulfur Metabolism in Phototrophic Organisms (Eds. R. Hell, C. Dahl., D. Knaff and T. Leustek), pp. 417-435, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-6862-1.

Hodda M, Smith DI, Smith IW, Nambiar L & Pascoe IG (2008).  Incursion management in the face of multiple uncertainties: a case study of an unidentified nematode associated with dying pines. In ‘Pine Wilt Disease: a world side threat to forest ecosystems’. (Eds M Mota, P Viera) (Springer-Verlag: Berlin)  (In Press)

 

Other publications

Kasel S (2008) Eucalypt establishment on former pine plantations in north east Victoria: an evaluation of revegetation techniques. Ecological Management and Restoration 9, 155-158. doi:10.1111/j.1442-8903.2008.00408.x

Hickey GM (2008) Evaluating sustainable forest management - Preface. Ecological Indicators 8, 109-114.

Himlal Baral, (2008) Applications of GIS in Community Forestry (Paperback), ISBN 978-3-639-03416-5 Paperback: 180 pages Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K.

Smith D, Smith I & Collett N. (2008). A Field Guide to Plantation Health Surveillance in Victoria.  ISBN 978-1-74217-118-0 (In Press)

 

 

 

 

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Major Reports and Working Papers

 

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