Ross Bradstock

Professor

19.G34

+ 61 2 4221 5531

rossb@uow.edu.au

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 Vegetarian Science 14, 345-354.

Pausa, 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 verucossa, 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 sensitivity 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

Mr Luke Collins, Project title: Landscape and fire regimes as determinants of mammal species diversity.

Mr Chris McLean, Project title: Fire in wet Sclerophyll forests.

Ms Amber Pares, Project title: 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

2003-2010 – Project Leader, Bushfire CRC Project B1.2 (Managing bushfire risk in changing World).

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

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

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

Last reviewed: 27 March, 2009