David Tng

About

I am a plant ecologist and biologist and my research interests are centered around the understanding plant-climate interactions, plant water relations, functional ecology and biodiversity of rain forests and related ecosystems. To test my research questions, I adopt a combination of field studies, ecophysiological methods, and anatomical approaches. My outreach involves publishing in peer-reviewed scientific journals and also in popular articles and various social media. Please get in touch if you have any ideas for collaboration.

Work

School for Field Studies
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Center Director

US

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Federal University of Bahia
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Visiting Professor

Brazil

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James Cook University
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Visiting Scientist

Australia

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Universidade Federal de Lavras
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Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow

Brazil

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James Cook University Cairns Campus
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Post-doctoral fellow - Plant Hydraulics

Australia

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Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University Cairns Campus
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Project officer - Rainforest plots and herbarium setup

Australia

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University of Tasmania
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Project Officer - Tree ring measurements

Australia

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Education

University of Tasmania
Australia

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PhD

University of Tasmania
Australia

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BSc. Hons.

Publications

Comparative Chloroplast Genomics, Phylogenomics, and Divergence Times of <i>Sassafras</i> (Lauraceae)

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International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Comparative Chloroplast Genomics, Phylogenomics, and Divergence Times of Sassafras (Lauraceae)

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International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Restoring an arboretum of Lauraceae at LakeEacham, Crater Lakes National Park, Queensland

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North Queensland Naturalist

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Climate, fire, and anthropogenic disturbance determine the current global distribution of tropical forest and savanna

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Environmental Research Letters

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Phylogeny and Systematics of <i>Sassafras</i> (Lauraceae), an Interesting Genus with Disjunct Distributions in Eastern North America and East Asia

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Plants

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Phylogeny and Systematics of Sassafras (Lauraceae), an Interesting Genus with Disjunct Distributions in Eastern North America and East Asia

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Plants

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A general hypothesis of forest invasions by woody plants based on whole‐plant carbon economics

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Journal of Ecology

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Cultural Consensus in Ethnotaxonomy - Lessons From a Fishing Community in Northeast Brazil

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ResearchSquare

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Cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in ethnotaxonomy: lessons from a fishing community in Northeast Brazil

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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

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Cultural consensus and intracultural diversity in ethnotaxonomy: lessons from a fishing community in Northeast Brazil

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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

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Tropical wet and dry forest tree species exhibit contrasting hydraulic architecture

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Flora

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Tropical wet and dry forest tree species exhibit contrasting hydraulic architecture

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Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

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Drought reduces the growth and health of tropical rainforest understory plants

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Drought reduces the growth and health of tropical rainforest understory plants

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Soil phosphorus fractions and their relation to leaf litterfall in a central Amazonian terra firme rainforest

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Acta Amazonica

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Soil phosphorus fractions and their relation to leaf litterfall in a central Amazonian terra firme rainforest,Frações de fósforo no solo e sua relação com a serrapilheira em uma floresta de terra firme na Amazônia central

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Acta Amazonica

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Variable selection for estimating individual tree height using genetic algorithm and random forest

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Variable selection for estimating individual tree height using genetic algorithm and random forest

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Growth Form and Functional Traits Influence the Shoot Flammability of Tropical Rainforest Species

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SSRN

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Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates

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ResearchSquare

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Gender differences in plant use knowledge within a traditional fishing community in northeastern Brazil

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Ethnobotany Research and Applications

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Gender differences in plant use knowledge within a traditional fishing community in northeastern Brazil

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Ethnobotany Research and Applications

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A South American in Australia: 'Wissadula contracta' (Malvaceae), a distinctive adventive shrub

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North Queensland Naturalist

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Moth species richness in an upland tropical rainforest: A citizen scientist assisted study

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bioRxiv

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Expanding the wood anatomy economics spectrum: the correlates of vessel element lengths and pit apertures sizes in tropical forest trees

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Plant Ecology & Diversity

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Expanding the wood anatomy economics spectrum: the correlates of vessel element lengths and pit apertures sizes in tropical forest trees

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Plant Ecology and Diversity

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AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

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Scientific Data

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AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

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Scientific Data

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Do primary rainforest tree species recruit into passively and actively restored tropical rainforest?

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Do primary rainforest tree species recruit into passively and actively restored tropical rainforest?

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Research Progress and Sustainable use of Cyclocarya paliurus (Juglandaceae), a Multi-Purpose Tree Species in China

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Plant Science Journal

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Drought Reduces the Growth and Health of Tropical Rainforest Understory Plants

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SSRN

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Comparative chloroplast genomics of Litsea Lam. (Lauraceae) and its phylogenetic implications

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Forests

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Moth species richness in an upland tropical rainforest: A citizen scientist assisted study

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Comparative Chloroplast Genomics of Litsea Lam. (Lauraceae) and Its Phylogenetic Implications

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Forests

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Comparative Chloroplast Genomics of <i>Litsea</i> Lam. (Lauraceae) and Its Phylogenetic Implications

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Forests

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Comparative chloroplast genomics of litsea lam. (lauraceae) and its phylogenetic implications

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Forests

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Plant biodiversity differences between rainforest plots in different stages of recovery in the uplands of the Wet Tropics

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North Queensland Naturalist

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Will the emblematic southern conifer Araucaria angustifolia survive to climate change in Brazil?

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Biodiversity and Conservation

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TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

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Global Change Biology

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How many trees and samples are adequate for estimating wood-specific gravity across different tropical forests?

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Trees

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How many trees and samples are adequate for estimating wood-specific gravity across different tropical forests?

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Trees - Structure and Function

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Will the emblematic southern conifer Araucaria angustifolia survive to climate change in Brazil?

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Biodiversity and Conservation

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Traditional uses of plants by indigenous communities for veterinary practices at Kurram district, Pakistan

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Ethnobotany Research and Applications

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Plant uses in a traditional fisherman community in northeastern Brazil

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bioRxiv

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Elevated temperature and CO2 cause differential growth stimulation and drought survival responses in eucalypt species from contrasting habitats

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Tree Physiology

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Elevated temperature and CO<sub>2</sub> cause differential growth stimulation and drought survival responses in eucalypt species from contrasting habitats

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Tree Physiology

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Plant uses in a traditional fisherman community in northeastern Brazil

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The enigma of Eucalyptus grandis (Rose Gum)/rainforest ecotones in the Australian Wet Tropics – the plot thickens

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North Queensland Naturalist

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Flooding regime drives tree community structure in Neotropical dry forests

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Journal of Vegetation Science

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Potential and future geographical distribution of eremanthus erythropappus (DC.) MacLeish: A tree threatened by climate change

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Floresta e Ambiente

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Rainforest trees respond to drought by modifying their hydraulic architecture

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Ecology and Evolution

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Fruit developmental biology and endosperm rumination in Elaeocarpus ruminatus (Elaeocarpaceae), and its taxonomic significance

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Australian Systematic Botany

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Rainforest trees respond to drought by modifying their hydraulic architecture

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Ecology and Evolution

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Post-fire plant regeneration across a closed forest-savanna vegetation transition

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Temporal vegetation changes in a seasonally dry tropical forest enclave in an ecotonal region between savanna and semiarid zones of Brazil

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Australian Journal of Botany

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Temporal vegetation changes in a seasonally dry tropical forest enclave in an ecotonal region between savanna and semiarid zones of Brazil

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Australian Journal of Botany

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Temporal changes in tree community structure and richness in a seasonally dry tropical forest in Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil,Cambios temporales en la estructura y riqueza de la comunidad arbórea en un bosque tropical estacionalmente seco en Minas Gerais, sudeste de Brasil

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Bosque

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Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy

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Functional Ecology

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Post-fire plant regeneration across a closed forest-savanna vegetation transition

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Post-fire plant regeneration across a closed forest-savanna vegetation transition

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Plant functional groups within a tropical forest exhibit different wood functional anatomy

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Functional Ecology

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Tree succession across a Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest and forest-savanna ecotone in northern Minas Gerais, Brazil

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Journal of Plant Ecology

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Vegetation and floristics of a lowland tropical rainforest in northeast Australia

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Biodiversity Data Journal

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Vegetation and floristics of a lowland tropical rainforest in northeast Australia

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Biodiversity Data Journal

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Characteristics of the Psidium cattleianum invasion of secondary rainforests

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Austral Ecology

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Characteristics of the Psidium cattleianum invasion of secondary rainforests

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Austral Ecology

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Floristic variation within seasonally dry tropical forests of the Caatinga Biogeographic Domain, Brazil, and its conservation implications

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International Forestry Review

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Floristic variation within seasonally dry tropical forests of the Caatinga Biogeographic Domain, Brazil, and its conservation implications

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International Forestry Review

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Functional Traits and Water Transport Strategies in Lowland Tropical Rainforest Trees

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PLoS One

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Functional traits and water transport strategies in lowland tropical rainforest trees

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PLoS ONE

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Global dry forests: a prologue

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International Forestry Review

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Beta-diversity in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) in the Caatinga Biogeographic Domain, Brazil, and its implications for conservation

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Biodiversity and Conservation

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Are Giant Eucalypt Forests Rain Forests?

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Beta-diversity in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) in the Caatinga Biogeographic Domain, Brazil, and its implications for conservation

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Biodiversity and Conservation

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Letting giants be - rethinking active fire management of old-growth eucalypt forest in the Australian tropics

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Letting giants be--rethinking active fire management of old-growth eucalypt forest in the Australian tropics

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Phosphorus limits Eucalyptus grandis seedling growth in an unburnt rain forest soil

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Frontiers in Plant Science

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Phosphorus limits eucalyptus grandis seedling growth in an unburnt rain forest soil

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Frontiers in Plant Science

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Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna

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PLoS ONE

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From desert to rainforest, sapwood width is similar in the widespread conifer Callitris columellaris

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Trees

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From desert to rainforest, sapwood width is similar in the widespread conifer Callitris columellaris

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Trees - Structure and Function

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Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna

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Humid tropical rain forest has expanded into eucalypt forest and savanna over the last 50 years

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Ecology and evolution

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Giant eucalypts - globally unique fire-adapted rain-forest trees?

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New Phytologist

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Giant eucalypts--globally unique fire-adapted rain-forest trees?

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New Phytologist

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Here today, gone tomorrow: the moss Gigaspermum repens in Tasmania

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Kanunnah

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Humid tropical rain forest has expanded into eucalypt forest and savanna over the last 50 years

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Ecology and Evolution

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Variation in stem radial growth of the Australian conifer, Callitris columellaris, across the world's driest and least fertile vegetated continent

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Trees - Structure and Function

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Variation in stem radial growth of the Australian conifer, Callitris columellaris, across the world’s driest and least fertile vegetated continent

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Trees

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Continental-scale climatic drivers of growth ring variability in an Australian conifer

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Trees

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Continental-scale climatic drivers of growth ring variability in an Australian conifer

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Trees - Structure and Function

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Seasonal pollen distribution in the atmosphere of Hobart, Tasmania: preliminary observations and congruence with flowering phenology

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Australian Journal of Botany

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Rainforest expansion in far north Queensland: a preliminary analysis of the Windsor and Carbine Tablelands

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Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF) transition project final report. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns

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Seasonal pollen distribution in the atmosphere of Hobart, Tasmania: Preliminary observations and congruence with flowering phenology

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Australian Journal of Botany

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Does moisture affect the partitioning of bryophytes between terrestrial and epiphytic substrates within cool temperate rain forests?

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The Bryologist

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Bryophyte diversity of rainforest in Tasmania’s Northeast Highlands

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Does moisture affect the partitioning of bryophytes between terrestrial and epiphytic substrates within cool temperate rain forests?

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Bryologist

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Aliens in Singapore: legumes of other lands

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Nature Watch

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Epiphytes: tree dwellers par excellence

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Nature Watch

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