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DR ALAN YORK



Contact Details

Organization: Forest and Ecosystem Science
Position: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
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Homepage: http://www.forestscience.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/alan_york/index.html
Work: 5321 4270

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science with Honours in Zoology University of New South Wales 04-Feb-1980
Doctor of Philosophy (Zoology) University of New South Wales 12-Dec-1989

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Ecological Society of Australia Ordinary member 01-Jan-1981
Member Association for Fire Ecology Ordinary member 04-Feb-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
FIRE-BIODIVERSITY Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2004
FIRE CRC B3.1 ECOL Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2004
PROJECT 1.1 - TECHNICAL TRANSFER AND DEVELOPMENT - TRANSFER OF EXPERT KNOWLEDGE FROM RESEARCHERS TO MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS. Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
PROJECT 1.2 - BIODIVERSITY STUDIES: DETERMINING APPROPRIATE ECOLOGICAL FIRE REGIMES TO MANAGE BIODIVERSITY IN THE HEALTHY WOODLANDS OF SOUTHWEST VICTORIA; AN ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT APPROACH. Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
PROJECT 1.3 - DSE RESEARCH PROJECTS: SHORT-TERM RESEARCH PROJECTS TO MEET SPECIFIC DSE REQUIREMENTS. Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
PROJECT 1.4 - BUSHFIRE CRC PROJECT B3.1: IMPACT OF FIRE ON ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES AND BIODIVERSITY. Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
PROJECT 1.5 - PROJECT B2.2 - SMOKE COMPOSITION AND IMPACT ON HUMAN HEALTH AND ECOSYSTEMS. Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
PROJECT 1.6 - PROJECT A4.1 (BUSHFIRE CRC) BUSHFIRE RISK MANAGEMENT MODEL Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
PROJECT 1.7 - AIR AND GROUND SUPPRESSION EVALUATION PROJECT (BUSHFIRE CRC CSIRO SECONDMENT) Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
PROJECT 1.8 - RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TIMBER HARVESTING, WALLABY DENSITY AND BROWSING DAMAGE ON REGENERATING NATIVE FOREST COUPES. Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2005
DETERMINING APPROPRIATE ECOLOGICAL FIRE REGIMES TO MANAGE BIODIVERSITY IN THE HEATHY WOODLANDS OF SOUTH WEST VICTORIA; AN ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT APPROACH Chief Investigator PARKS VICTORIA 01/01/2006
DSE PROJECT 1.1 FIRE MANAGEMENT & BIODIVERSITY, EMERGING ISSUES AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER 2008-09 Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2006
DSE PROJECT 1.2 BUSHFIRE CRC PROJECTS 2008/10 Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 01/07/2006
2003 CANBERRA BUSHFIRES EXPERT ADVICE Chief Investigator ACT GOVERNMENT SOLICITOR 08/06/2007
EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON INSECTS AND OTHER INVERTEBRATES: IMPLICATIONS OF ALTERED FIRE REGIMES Chief Investigator CSIRO 21/10/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Altered fire regimes: How resilient are invertebrates to change and what are the implications for the maintenance of ecosystem function?
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Bushfire in a Heating World
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW 6th Bushfire Conference
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: Nature Conservation Council of NSW(Sydney)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Impacts of grazing and burning on spider assemblages in dry eucalypt forests of north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 526-538
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Invertebrates and fire: Think small, think big. The need to incorporate a major component of our biodiversity into adaptive management.
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Bushfires: Managing the Risk
    Conference Publication: Bushfires: Managing the Risk
    Page numbers: 87-92
    Publisher: Nature Conservation Council of NSW(Sydney)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Assessment of the diversity and abundance of terrestrial mangrove arthropods in southern New South Wales, Australia.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Austral Ecology
    Volume: 27
    Page numbers: 451-458
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