Richard Benyon

Individual tree detection and crown delineation from Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) LiDAR in structurally complex mixed species eucalypt forests

D Jaskierniak, A Lucieer, G Kuczera, D Turner, PNJ Lane, RG Benyon, S Haydon

Journal article  |  2021  |  ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

Estimates of forest stocking density per hectare (NHa) are important in characterising ecological conditions and assessing changes..

Spatio-temporal transpiration patterns reflect vegetation structure in complex upland terrain

Daniel Metzen, Gary J Sheridan, Richard G Benyon, Paul V Bolstad, Anne Griebel, Patrick NJ Lane

Journal article  |  2019  |  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Topography exerts control on eco-hydrologic processes via alteration of energy inputs due to slope angle and orientation. Further,..

Top-down seasonal streamflow model with spatiotemporal forest sapwood area

Dominik Jaskierniak, George Kuczera, Richard G Benyon, Shane Haydon, Patrick NJ Lane

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Forest growth dynamics affect streamflow with changes in actual evapotranspiration (AET) during forest regeneration. Using a “top-..

Importance of disturbance history on net primary productivity in the world's most productive forests and implications for the global carbon cycle

Liubov Volkova, Stephen H Roxburgh, Christopher J Weston, Richard G Benyon, Andrew L Sullivan, Philip J Polglase

Journal article  |  2018  |  GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Analysis of growth and biomass turnover in natural forests of Eucalyptus regnans, the world's tallest angiosperm, reveals it is al..

Changes in evapotranspiration components following replacement of Eucalyptus regnans with Acacia species

Sandra ND Hawthorne, Richard G Benyon, Patrick NJ Lane

Journal article  |  2018  |  HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Forest species composition may change following a disturbance. This change can affect long term water yield from forested catchmen..

Stand-level variation in evapotranspiration in non-water-limited eucalypt forests

Richard G Benyon, Rachael H Nolan, Sandra ND Hawthorn, Patrick NJ Lane

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

To better understand water and energy cycles in forests over years to decades, measurements of spatial and long-term temporal vari..

Estimating tree and stand sapwood area in spatially heterogeneous southeastern Australian forests

Dominik Jaskierniak, George Kuczera, Richard G Benyon, Arko Lucieer

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY

Aims Natural and anthropogenic changes in forests can have important influences on transpiration and water production. Understandi..

Predicting long-term streamflow variability in moist eucalypt forests using forest growth models and a sapwood area index

D Jaskierniak, G Kuczera, R Benyon

Journal article  |  2016  |  WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A major challenge in surface hydrology involves predicting streamflow in ungauged catchments with heterogeneous vegetation and spa..

Models for Estimating Evapotranspiration of Irrigated Eucalypt Plantations

S Theiveyanathan, RG Benyon, V Koul, RK Yadav, RIS Gill

Book Chapter  |  2016

Quantifying water requirements of riparian river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia - implications for the management of environmental flows

Tanya M Doody, Matthew J Colloff, Micah Davies, Vijay Koul, Richard G Benyon, Pamela L Nagler

Journal article  |  2015  |  ECOHYDROLOGY

Water resource development and drought have altered river flow regimes, increasing average flood return intervals across floodplai..