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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>SRES RESEARCH LUNCHBREAK SEMINAR -
Wednesday 26 July, 1-2pm, F101, Forestry Bldg 48</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Carola Kuramotto de Bednarik</b> (PhD
Scholars-SRES)<i><b> Relative importance of fire regimes,
environmental gradients and climate change for rainforest distribution
in the Sydney region</b></i> (PhD proposal seminar).<br>
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Summary: Are Australian rainforests islands of green in a land of
fire? If so, does this mean that fire is more important for rainforest
occurrence than other environmental gradients?<br>
Many environmental variables have been identified that may control the
distribution of rainforests and there is no general agreement about
which factors are most important. Because studies have been conducted
at varying scales and different sites, and even with different
definitions of what a rainforest is, it is impossible to generalise
past results to the landscape scale for management purposes.<br>
My study will investigate the relative importance of various
environmental gradients, human activities and especially fire regimes
for rainforest distribution under current and climate change
conditions. I will also investigate the effects of the assumptions
that are common in many species distribution models, as well as the
effects of spatial scale and the use of the community versus the
continuum concept of species distributions for model development and
the results obtained.</blockquote>
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