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Titles of presentations
from people awarded an Australian Flora Foundation Young Scientist Prize
Two prizes are awarded at each annual
meeting of the Ecological Society of Australia, and starting in 2002,
two at each biennial meeting of the Australian Society of Horticultural
Science. At each meeting, one prize is awarded to the under- or postgraduate
student who gives the best talk, and one to the under- or postgraduate
student who presents the best poster, provided the Society considers the
presentations are of suitable merit.
2011
Ecological Society of Australia
Agricultural land use history increases invasions in regenerating
fragmented ecosystems, compromising understorey flora diversity
Talk: Sarah Butler, School of Geography, Planning
and Environmental Management, University of Queensland
Summary
Climate change impacts on the northern sandplain Kwongan vegetation
of SW Australia
Poster: Amity Williams, Terrestrial Ecology
Research Group, Murdoch University Summary
2010
Ecological Society of Australia
Age and growth of a Tasmanian temperate old-growth forest stand
dominated by Eucalyptus regnans, the world's tallest angiosperm
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Talk: Sam Wood, School of Plant Science, University
of Tasmania Summary
Global Warming, Fire & Australian Alpine Plants: Catastrophe
or Resilience?
Poster:James Camac, School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Summary
2009
Neither Society awarded Young Scientist Prizes in 2009
2008
Ecological Society of Australia
Can we be certain?: Using expert models to manage Box-Ironbark forests
Talk: Christina Czembor, University of Melbourne. Summary
Use of fire, cultivation and coarse woody debris as restoration techniques
in Tasmanian dry forests
Poster: Tanya Bailey, University of Tasmania. Summary
Australian Society for
Horticultural Science
Is the time of floral initiation in Ptilotus nobilis affected
by temperature, daylength or light intensity?
Talk:
Sybille Orzek, University of Queensland. Summary
Low storage temperatures can induce leaf and flower browning
on cut Backhousia myrtifolia stems
Poster: Joseph Eyre, University of Queensland.
Summary
2007
Ecological Society
of Australia
Reconstructing the fire history of an unmanaged semi-arid landscape:
the Lake Johnston Region, Western Australia.
Talk: Alison O’Donnell, University of Western Australia.
Summary
Interference by poor quality pollen leads to pollen limitation of seed
set in Bulbine bulbosa (Asphodelaceae)
Poster: Kathleen Owen, University of New England. Summary
2006
Neither Society awarded Young Scientist Prizes in 2006
2005
Ecological Society of Australia
Predicting changes in seedling recruitment and
distribution with a changing climate using a natural gradient and 'space
for time' substitution.
Talk. Suzanne Venn, La Trobe University. Summary
Effectiveness of rehabilitation treatments on
bulldozed fire control lines in the north-east Victorian mountains.
Poster: Seraphina
Cutler, La Trobe University. Summary
7th Australian
Native Flower Conference, May 25th-28th at the Bardon Conference Centre,
Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane
Acquisition and transport
of phosphorus in the Australian koala fern Caustis blakei (Cyperaceae),
a role for specialised dauciform roots.
Cameron Playsted, University of Queensland. Summary
2004
Ecological Society of Australia
Weevil pollination of Australian cycad Lepidozamia
peroffskyana
Talk: John Hall, University of Queensland
Slides
from talk
Australian Society for Horticultural
Science
6th Australian Horticultural Conference "Harnessing the
Potential of Horticulture in the Asia-Pacific Region" Hyatt Regency,
Coolum 1-3 September
Acquisition and transport
of phosphorus in the Australian koala fern Caustis blakei (Cyperaceae),
a role for specialised dauciform roots.
Cameron Playsted, University of Queensland
Summary
2003
Ecological Society of Australia
The mechanism of self-sterility in Bulbine
bulbosa: self-incompatibility or inbreeding depression.
Talk: Kathleen Owen, Botany, University of New England, Armidale
NSW 2351 Summary
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Can the seed bank prevent genetic changes in Grevilea caleyii
populations?
Poster: Tanya Llorens, Institute for Conservation Biology, University
of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522
Summary
2002
Ecological Society of Australia
Plant Functional Types, Grazing and Fire in
the Rangelands
Talk: Peter Vesk, Macquarie University
A population viability analysis for Leionema ralstonii
Poster: Joanne Potts, University of Melbourne
Australian Society for Horticultural Science
national conference:
Swainsona sejuncta: a native species of ornamental
promise or a potential weed?
Talk: Amelia Martyn, University of Sydney
Genetic variation and phylogenic relationships in the genus
Scaevola.
Poster: Shuming Luo, University of
Sydney
2001
Ecological Society of Australia
Spatial patterns in seed banks of arid zone wetlands.
Talk Joint winner: John Porter, Brock, M., Kingsford, R.
and Prakash, N. University of New England
Enhanced water conservation in low-rain species leads to shorter
leaf lifespan at a given leaf mass per area.
Talk joint winner Ian Wright and Mark Westoby, Macquarie
University
Seedling Recruitment and Litter Dynamics in Disturbed Cypress
Pine Communities.
Poster Mark Harris, University of Queensland
2000
Ecological Society of Australia
Genetic structure of Banksia
integrifolia woodlands at Wilson’s Promontory, Victoria.
Katherine Evans, Newbigin, E.and Ades, P. School of Botany, University
of Melbourne
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