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Prof

Peter Vesk

Professor
Ecosystem and Forest Sciences
vegetation
Plant functional traits
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
environmental sciences & ecology
ecology
plant sciences
biodiversity conservation
biodiversity & conservation
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Prof

Peter Vesk

 
Division
Science
 
Primary Interest
Vegetation management
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Peter Vesk.

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Escalating the arms race: Understanding when and how trees get really tall

2020 - 2023
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Integrating Niches, Interactions & Dispersal in Species Distribution Models

This proposal aims to develop a framework for statistical modelling that integrates across spatial scales and disentangles the processes of ..

2019 - 2022
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Population Viability Analysis

2019 - 2020
Completed
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Estimating biomass for the management of total grazing pressure in endangered Buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii) Woodlands

2019 - 2020
Completed
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Provide data analysis support for the VEFMAP Stage 6 vegetation study

2018 - 2019
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Functional traits in eucalypt distributions of SE and SW Australia

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Framework for using and update ecological models to inform bushfire management planning

2018 - 2019
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Estimating biomass for the management of total grazing pressure in the endangered Buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii) Woodlands

2017 - 2018
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What traits drive eucalypt species distributions and communities

2017 - 2018
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Testing the functional traits responsible for tree distributions in long separated branches of the eucalypt phylogeny

2017 - 2018
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Projects

Project Types

22

Research Grant

15

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Peter Vesk.

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Traits explain invasion of alien plants into tropical rainforests

Decky I Junaedi, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, Peter A Vesk, Michael A McCarthy, Mark A Burgman, Jane A Catford

Journal article  |  2021  |  Ecology and Evolution

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Epidemiology and management of blackleg of canola in response to changing farming practices in Australia

Angela P Van de Wouw, Stephen J Marcroft, Susan J Sprague, Jack L Scanlan, Peter A Vesk, Alexander Idnurm

Journal article  |  2021  |  Australasian Plant Pathology

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Assessing the accuracy of density-independent demographic models for predicting species ranges

Matthew H Holden, Jian DL Yen, Natalie J Briscoe, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Peter A Vesk, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ecography

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Misinformation, internet honey trading and beekeepers drive a plant invasion

Magdalena Lenda, Piotr Skorka, Karolina Kuszewska, Dawid Moron, Michal Belcik, Renata Baczek Kwinta, Franciszek Janowiak, David H Duncan, Peter A Vesk, Hugh P Possingham, Johannes MH Knops

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ecology Letters

Biological invasions are a major human induced global change that is threatening global biodiver-sity by homogenizing the world’s ..

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Transferability of trait-based species distribution models

Peter A Vesk, William K Morris, Will C Neal, Karel Mokany, Laura J Pollock

Journal article  |  2020  |  ECOGRAPHY

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Integrating dynamic plant growth models and microclimates for species distribution modelling

Rafael Schouten, Peter A Vesk, Michael R Kearney

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ecological Modelling

Climate is a major factor determining the distribution of plant species. Correlative models are frequently used to model the relat..

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Disentangling chronic regeneration failure in endangered woodland ecosystems

Ami Bennett, David H Duncan, Libby Rumpff, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ecosphere

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Plant resprouting: How many sprouts and how deep? Flexible modelling of multi-species experimental disturbances

Peter A Vesk, Jian DL Yen

Journal article  |  2019  |  Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Peter Brown, Aik-Choon Tan, Mohamed A El-Esawi, Thomas Liehr, Oliver Blanck, Douglas P Gladue, Gabriel MF Almeida, Tomislav Cernava, Carlos O Sorzano, Andy WK Yeung, Michael S Engel, Arun Richard Chandrasekaran, Thilo Muth, Martin S Staege, Swapna V Daulatabad, Darius Widera, Junpeng Zhang, Adrian Meule, Ken Honjo, Olivier Pourret, et al.

Journal article  |  2019  |  Database

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Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits

Jitka Klimesova, Jana Martinkova, Juli G Pausas, Moemy Gomes de Moraes, Tomas Herben, Fei-Hai Yu, Javier Puntieri, Peter A Vesk, Francesco de Bello, Stepan Janecek, Jan Altman, Beatriz Appezzato-da-Gloria, Alena Bartuskova, Alan Crivellaro, Jiri Dolezal, Jacqueline P Ott, Susana Paula, Renata Schnablova, Fritz H Schweingruber, Gianluigi Ottaviani

Journal article  |  2019  |  Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Environmental Science and Management
Ecology
Expanding Knowledge
Ecology and Evolution
Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity
Ecological Applications
Forest and Wooded Lands
Ecosystem Assessment and Management
Evolutionary Biology
Rehabilitation of Degraded Environments

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Member

Ecological Society of Australia

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Macquarie University

Master of Science

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Science

University of Sydney

Links

International Linkages

University of Otago

New Zealand

National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd.

New Zealand

Landcare Research

New Zealand

Victoria University

New Zealand