Vegetation Function Network supported by Australian Research Council and Landcare Research NZ
40. Anatomy of Resprouting

Organised by David Bowman, University of Tasmania and Geoff Burrows, Charles Sturt University.

First meeting to be scheduled during second half of 2008


PARTICIPANTS MAY INCLUDE

David Bowman - U Tasmania (Leader)
Geoff Burrows - Charles Sturt U (Leader)
Sean Bellairs - Charles Darwin U
Ross Bradstock - U of Wollongong
Lyn Cook - U Queensland
 Andrew Drinnan - Melbourne U
Malcolm Gill - Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
Jugo Ilic - Forest and Wood Products Australia
David Keith - NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Lynda Prior - Charles Darwin U
Fiona Scarff - Macquarie U
Peter Vesk - Melbourne U
Mark Westoby - Macquarie U
Peter Wilson - Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens

   

GOAL

The purposes of the proposed workshop are:

  1. To introduce leading fire ecologists, functional ecologists and experts in eucalypt phylogeny to recent research on the anatomy of Myrtaceae axillary buds and epicormic structures by Burrows and his associates.
  2. To consider the evolutionary and ecological significance of these patterns. 
  3. To discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of post-fire epicormic resprouting (as opposed to basal resprouting) and to prepare reviews and opinion pieces.

Last updated December 2007