Alison C BennettUniversity of Melbourne | MSD · School of Ecosystem and Forest Science
Alison C Bennett
Master of Science
Examining the impacts of climate change on Australian forests.
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Introduction
I'm a 3rd year PhD student that researches the impacts of climate change on Australian forests. I'm examining the relationship between air temperature and gross primary productivity in Australian wooded ecosystems and how thermal acclimation of photosynthesis may affect that relationship in future climates. I utilise eddy covariance flux data from the OzFlux network and the CABLE-POP land surface model to conduct my research. I will soon be looking for a post-PhD research position.
Additional affiliations
September 2017 - September 2021
Position
- Lecturer
Description
- Employed on projects from time to time including: - Annual guest lecture (4yrs) introducing the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program to Master's students - Demonstrate during forest inventory field-work to Master's students - Online tutoring for dual delivery of Masters subject - Tutoring international student to assist with essay preparation - Assist with inventory measurement of TERN Supersite forest plot
July 2017 - September 2017
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Assisted with two projects. 1) development of a dolphin population prediction model 2) conduct literature review of monitoring/detection model.
January 2017 - December 2017
Position
- Analyst
Description
- Internship that converted to short-term contract conducting some analysis and clean-up of the Victorian Forest Monitoring Program database; implementation and analysis of fuel hazard reporting program aimed at understanding differences between modelled and measured fuel hazard in several forest types; and assist with implementation and uptake of in-field fuel hazard reporting software.
Education
March 2017 - November 2022
January 2015 - December 2016
January 1997 - December 2003
Publications
Publications (3)
In 2020, the Australian and New Zealand flux research and monitoring network,
OzFlux, celebrated its 20th anniversary by reflecting on the lessons learned through
two decades of ecosystem studies on global change biology. OzFlux is a network not
only for ecosystem researchers, but also for those ‘next users’ of the knowledge, information and data t...
Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) of wooded ecosystems (forests and savannas) is central to the global carbon cycle, comprising 67‐75% of total global terrestrial GPP. Climate change may alter this flux by increasing the frequency of temperatures beyond the thermal optimum of GPP (Topt). We examined the relationship between GPP and air temperature (...
Above‐ground biomass in forests is critical to the global carbon cycle as it stores and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. Climate change will disrupt the carbon cycle hence understanding how climate and other abiotic variables determine forest biomass at broad spatial scales is important for validating and constraining Earth System models and...
Projects
Project (1)
What is the shape of the GPP-Ta relationship in Australian wooded ecosystems? How does the shape vary within and among ecoregions? What is the relationship between the thermal optimum of GPP (Topt) and mean annual daytime temperature across a broad climatic gradient?
