Ross Bradstock Position:   Professor Room:   19.G34 Phone No:   +61 2 4221 5531 Email:               Ross Bradstock is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires

Research Interests

Fire ecology

plant population ecology

conservation biology

landscape simulation modelling

landscape ecology

climate change

 

Representative Publications

Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J.E. and Gill, A.M. (eds.) (2002) Flammable Australia, The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Bradstock, R.A. and Kenny, B.J. (2003). Application of plant functional traits to fire management in a conservation reserve in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 14, 345-354.

Pausas, J.G., Bradstock, R.A., Keith, D.A., Keeley, J.E. & GCTE fire network (2004). Plant functional traits in relation to fire in crown-fire ecosystems. Ecology, 85, 2004, pp. 1085–1100.

Bradstock, R.A., Bedward M. & Cohn J.S. The modelled effects of differing fire management strategies on the conifer Callitris verrucosa, within semi-arid mallee vegetation in Australia. Journal of Applied Ecology 43, 281-292.

Hammill, K.A. and Bradstock, R.A. (2006). Remote sensing of fire severity in the Blue Mountains: influence of vegetation type and inferring fire intensity. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15, 213-226.

Searchable Publication List

 

Current Students

PhD

Ms Amber Pares

The Importance of Soil as an Influence on the Relationship between Fire Regimes and Vegetation in the Sydney Region

 

Suggested Topics for Future Students

Fire Ecology,

Fuels and Fire Behaviour,

Landscape Ecology,

Climate Change,

Simulation Modelling.

 

Abbreviated CV

Principal Research Scientist 1999 – 2006, Biodiversity Conservation Science Section, Policy and Science Division, NSW Department of Environment and Conservation.

Senior Research Scientist 1994 – 1999, Biodiversity Research and management Division, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service.

Project Leader: Bushfire CRC Project B1.2 (Managing Bushfire Risk in Changing World) 2003 -2010.

Honorary Research Fellow – School of Resources Environment and Society, 2002 -2006.

 

Academic Degrees

PhD – University of Sydney (1986)
BSc(Hons) University of Sydney (1978)