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A/Prof

Peter Vesk

Associate Professor And Reader
Biosciences
vegetation
Plant functional traits
science & technology
life sciences & biomedicine
environmental sciences & ecology
ecology
plant sciences
biodiversity conservation
biodiversity & conservation
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A/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
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Estimating biomass for the management of total grazing pressure in endangered Buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii) Woodlands

2019 - 2020
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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
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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

23

Research Grant

15

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Peter Vesk.

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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

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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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Threatened plant translocation in Australia: A review

JL Silcock, CL Simmons, L Monks, R Dillon, N Reiter, M Jusaitis, PA Vesk, M Byrne, DJ Coates

Journal article  |  2019  |  Biological Conservation

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Modeling biodiversity benchmarks in variable environments

Jian DL Yen, Josh Dorrough, Ian Oliver, Michael Somerville, Megan J McNellie, Christopher J Watson, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2019  |  Ecological Applications

Effective environmental assessment and management requires quantifiable biodiversity targets. Biodiversity benchmarks define these..

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Forecasting species range dynamics with process-explicit models: matching methods to applications

Natalie J Briscoe, Jane Elith, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Jose J Lahoz-Monfort, James S Camac, Katherine M Giljohann, Matthew H Holden, Bronwyn A Hradsky, Michael R Kearney, Sean M McMahon, Ben L Phillips, Tracey J Regan, Jonathan R Rhodes, Peter A Vesk, Brendan A Wintle, Jian DL Yen, Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita

Journal article  |  2019  |  Ecology Letters

Knowing where species occur is fundamental to many ecological and environmental applications. Species distribution models (SDMs) a..

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Integrating Multiple Data Types to Connect Ecological Theory and Data Among Levels

Jian DL Yen, Zeb Tonkin, Jarod Lyon, Wayne Koster, Adrian Kitchingman, Kasey Stamation, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2019  |  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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Using functional traits to predict species growth trajectories, and cross-validation to evaluate these models for ecological prediction

Freya M Thomas, Jian DL Yen, Peter A Vesk

Journal article  |  2019  |  Ecology and Evolution

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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

Positions

Associate Professor And Reader

Biosciences

Member

Ecological Society of Australia

Education

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Macquarie University

Master of Science

University of Sydney

Bachelor of Science

University of Sydney

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