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

Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science

Major Research Projects

Department of Sustainability and Environment Projects

The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment is a major partner of the Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science. This reflects the long history of involvement of the Victorian Government in forest training and research. Many of the Department's major projects are supported by DSE. The current projects and their outputs our outlined below.

DSE Project 1.1 Fire Management and Biodiversity, emerging issues and knowledge transfer

DSE Project 1.2 Bushfire CRC Projects

DSE Project 1.3 Forests and Water: Yield security and stream health

DSE Project 1.4 Forest Restoration: soil/plant processes

DSE Project 1.5 Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions in forested landscapes

DSE Project 1.7 Improved monitor ing for sustainable forest and natural resource management in Victoria

DSE Project 1.8 Modelling ecosystem goods and services

DSE Project 1.9 Vulnerability of Victorian forest ecosystems to climate change

DSE Project 1.10 The success of modified management prescriptions on fire-salvage coupes

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Projects

ACIAR Project FST/2004/061 Assessment, management and marketing of goods and services from cutover native forests in Papua New Guinea

ACIAR Project FST/2005/100 Value adding to Lao PDR plantation timber products