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PhD candidate studying how fire impacts bat communities | University of Melbourne | 'Balancing' a part-time PhD with kids. Send coffee. she/her

Ballarat, Victoria
Joined October 2013
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Terrestrial LiDAR data is all kinds of magic. This beauty is plot 60! Come and hear about my work on bats & fire at @VicBioCon on Friday in the disturbance ecology session
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There's a large program of #fireecology talks at #ESAus23. I'll tweet what I can in this thread 🧵
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Alan Andersen introduces the remainder of the session, taking about fire insights from the long-term fire experiment at the Territory Wildlife Park #ESAus23 #fireecology
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Merinda Day-Smith has been examining grass species composition at the site & resulting fire behaviour. She found rate of spread and intensity is driven by veg structure (esp spp) & weather #fireeology #ESAus23
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#ESAus23 @martine_maron warns us about forgetting the mitigation hierarchy when we get "nature positive"! Until we get this right, the more ambitious goals will be unachievable!
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How does wildlife utilize wombat burrows after gigafires? Great presso from @GLinley2 #esaus2023
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#ESAus23 standing room only for @MeganVGood on measuring habitat restoration - helping landholders develop appropriate management plans for their patch... And learn how to monitor the impact of their management! We shouldn't expect landholders to do EVERYTHING though.
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