Simon Murphy

Rapid prediction of particulate, humus and resistant fractions of soil organic carbon in reforested lands using infrared spectroscopy

Dinesh B Madhavan, Jeff A Baldock, Zoe J Read, Simon C Murphy, Shaun C Cunningham, Michael P Perring, Tim Herrmann, Tom Lewis, Timothy R Cavagnaro, Jacqueline R England, Keryn I Paul, Christopher J Weston, Thomas G Baker

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Environmental Management

Reforestation of agricultural lands with mixed-species environmental plantings can effectively sequester C. While accurate and eff..

Messmate stringybark: bark ignitability and burning sustainability in relation to fragment dimensions, hazard score and time since

Tara E Penman, Jane G Cawson, Simon Murphy, Thomas J Duff

Journal article  |  2017  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Messmate stringybark is common in forests across south-eastern Australia. The bark of these trees is persistent and produces fireb..

Empirical Estimates of Aboveground Carbon in Open Eucalyptus Forests of South-Eastern Australia and Its Potential Implication for National Carbon Accounting

Liubov Volkova, Huiquan Bi, Simon Murphy, Christopher J Weston

Journal article  |  2015  |  Forests

The aboveground carbon (AGC) storage of open Eucalyptus forests is unknown yet they are estimated to account for almost 25% of all..

Additive biomass equations based on complete weighing of sample trees for open eucalypt forest species in south-eastern Australia

Huiquan Bi, Simon Murphy, Liubov Volkova, Christopher Weston, Thomas Fairman, Yun Li, Robert Law, Jaymie Norris, Xiangdong Lei, Gabriele Caccamo

Journal article  |  2015  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The aboveground biomass and carbon stock of less commercialized Eucalyptus open forests of south-eastern Australia are not well-kn..

Improved models for estimating temporal changes in carbon sequestration in above-ground biomass of mixed-species environmental plantings

Keryn I Paul, Stephen H Roxburgh, Jacqueline R England, Robert de Ligt, John S Larmour, Kim Brooksbank, Simon Murphy, Peter Ritson, Trevor Hobbs, Tom Lewis, Noel D Preece, Shaun C Cunningham, Zoe Read, David Clifford, R John Raison

Journal article  |  2015  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Plantings of mixed native species (termed 'environmental plantings') are increasingly being established for carbon sequestration w..

Nondestructive estimates of above-ground biomass using terrestrial laser scanning

Kim Calders, Glenn Newnham, Andrew Burt, Simon Murphy, Pasi Raumonen, Martin Herold, Darius Culvenor, Valerio Avitabile, Mathias Disney, John Armston, Mikko Kaasalainen

Journal article  |  2015  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Summary: Allometric equations are currently used to estimate above-ground biomass (AGB) based on the indirect relationship with tr..

MASSIVE-SCALE TREE MODELLING FROM TLS DATA

P Raumonen, E Casella, K Calders, S Murphy, M Akerblom, M Kaasalainen

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  PIA15+HRIGI15 - JOINT ISPRS CONFERENCE, VOL. II

This paper presents a method for reconstructing automatically the quantitative structure model of every tree in a forest plot from..

Adverse influences of drought and temperature extremes on survival of potential tree species for commercial environmental forestry in the dryland areas on the western slopes of New South Wales, Australia

Huiquan Bi, Jagrutee Parekh, Yun Li, Simon Murphy, Yuancai Lei

Journal article  |  2014  |  AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

In order to search for suitable tree species for commercial environmental forestry over the vast semiarid and drought prone areas ..

Root biomass of carbon plantings in agricultural landscapes of southern Australia: Development and testing of allometrics

Keryn I Paul, Stephen H Roxburgh, Jacqueline R England, Kim Brooksbank, John S Larmour, Peter Ritson, Dan Wildy, Rob Sudmeyer, R John Raison, Trevor Hobbs, Simon Murphy, Stanley Sochacki, Geoff McArthur, Craig Barton, Justin Jonson, S Theiveyanathan, Jenny Carter

Journal article  |  2014  |  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Root biomass may to contribute a substantial proportion of the carbon sequestered in new tree plantings, particularly in regions w..

Fuel reduction burning mitigates wildfire effects on forest carbon and greenhouse gas emission

Liubov Volkova, CP Mick Meyer, Simon Murphy, Thomas Fairman, Fabienne Reisen, Christopher Weston

Journal article  |  2014  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

A high-intensity wildfire burnt through a dry Eucalyptus forest in south-eastern Australia that had been fuel reduced with fire 3 ..