[Sres-postdocs] Just received - PhD Proposal seminar

[Zosha Smith]

For your diaries!  Z


>SRES RESEARCH LUNCHBREAK SEMINAR - Wednesday 26 July, 1-2pm, F101, 
>Forestry Bldg 48
>Carola Kuramotto de Bednarik (PhD Scholars-SRES) Relative importance 
>of fire regimes, environmental gradients and climate change for 
>rainforest distribution in the Sydney region (PhD proposal seminar).
>
>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?
>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.
>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.

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