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About Malcolm Gill


Current Research

  • Fire regimes for fire management.
  • The place of fires in Australian ecosystems.
  • Biodiversity, bushfires and biogeography.
  • Technology transfer: bibliography of Australian fire ecology, fire-response register of Australian plants.

    Career

  • B.Agr.Sc., M.Sc. Ph.D. University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The higher degrees were in forest ecology.

  • Post-doctoral 1966-68. Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Research Scientist 1968-1971. Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden, Miami, Florida, USA.

      (Studies in USA were on the growth habits of tropical and temperate trees).

  • Research Scientist 1971-present. CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT, Australia (Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research).
      (Research here has been on various aspects of fire ecology including fire behaviour, adaptive traits, animal-plant-fire interactions and monitoring systems).

    External Collaborators

  • Dr R.A.Bradstock, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville, NSW, Australia.
  • Dr N.Burrows, WA Dept CALM, Wanneroo, WA, Australia.
  • Dr D.Lindenmayer, CRES, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  • Dr B.Mackey, Geography Dept, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  • Dr M.McCarthy, CRES, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  • Dr G.Mercer, University of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
  • Dr T. Swetnam, Tree Ring Laboratory, Arizona, USA.
  • Dr R.Weber, University of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
  • Dr R.J. Williams, CSIRO, Darwin, NT, Australia.

    Recent Publications

    1. Gill, A.M. (1995). Stems and fires. In: B. Gartner (ed). Plant Stems. Physiology and Functional Morphology. Academic Press: San Diego. Pp. 323-342.

    2. Gill, A.M. and Bradstock, R.A. (1995). Extinctions of biota by fires. In: Bradstock, R.A., Auld, T.D., Keith, D.A., Kingsford, R., Lunney, D. and Sivertsen, D. (eds), Conserving Biodiversity: Threats and Solutions. Surrey Beatty and Sons, Sydney. Pp. 309-322.

    3. Moore, P.H.R., Gill, A.M. and Kohnert, R. (1995). Quantifying bushfires for ecology using two electronic devices and biological indicators. CALM Science Supp. 4, 83-88.

    4. Weber, R.O., Gill, A.M., Lyons, P.R.A., Moore, P.H.R., Bradstock, R.A. and Mercer, G. N. (1995). Modelling wildland fire temperatures. CALM Science Supp. 4, 23-26.

    5. Williams, J. E. and Gill, A. M. (1995). Impact of fire regimes on the forests of eastern New South Wales. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Forest Issues 1, 68p.

    6. Gill, A.M. (1996). How fires affect biodiversity. In: Biodiversity and Fire - the Effects and Effectiveness of Fire Management. Pp. 47-55. Dept. Environment, Sports and Territories, Canberra.

    7. Gill, A.M. and Moore, P.H.R. (1996). Regional and historical fire weather patterns pertinent to the January 1994 Sydney bushfires. Proc.Linn.Soc.NSW 116, 27-36.

    8. Gill, A.M., Moore, P.H.R. and Williams, R.J. (1996). Fire weather in the wet-dry tropics of world heritage Kakadu National Park, Australia. Aust.J.Ecol. 21, 302-308.

    9. Gill, A.M., Moore, P.H.R. and Downey, P.O. (1996). Supplement to the Fourth Edition (1994) of the Bibliography of Fire Ecology in Australia (including Fire Science and Fire Management). NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.


    Contact details:

    Malcolm Gill

    Australian National Herbarium
    Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
    GPO Box 1600
    Canberra ACT 2601
    Australia

    Email: malcolm.gill@csiro.au
    Phone: (06) 246 5116
    Fax: (06) 246 5249


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