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DR IAN THOMAS



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Organization: Resource Management and Geography
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/thomas.html
Work: 8344 9150
Room: 232
Level: 02
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The Australian National University
Doctor of Philosophy University of Tasmania

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.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Interactions between fire, soil fertility & vegetation and the effects on treeline dynamics in the Alpine National Park Principal Supervisor ANZ EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEE COMPANY LTD Postgraduate Student Research Grants (HOLSWORTH WILDLIFE RESEARCH FUND) 01/01/2005
Paleoecology of Western Tasmania Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2006
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FIRE, SOIL FERTILITY AND BEGETATION AND THE EFFECTS ON TREELINE DYNAMICS IN THE ALPINE NATIONAL PARK - ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 01/01/2006
A REGIONAL ANALYSIS OF HOLOCENE VEGETATION AND CLIMATE HISTORY FROM THE GIANT SAND ISLANDS OF SOUTH-EAST QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/01/2007
Historical changes in floodplain sedimentation in SE Australia: using radionuclides to validate a new approach Chief Investigator AINSE Special Awards 01/01/2008
Historical changes in floodplain sedimentation in SE Australia: using radionuclides to validate a new approach Chief Investigator AINSE Awards 01/05/2009

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

Journal Articles

  • Pre-European Fire Regimes in Australian Ecosystems
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Geography Compass
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 979-1011
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Holocene vegetation changes in the caucasus mountains: climate or humans?


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Quaternary International
    Volume: 167
    Page numbers: 76-80
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  • A 5,600 year history of changing vegetation, sea-levels and human impacts from the Black Sea coast of Georgia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Holocene
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 25-36
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  • A 5600-yr history of changing vegetation, sea levels and human impacts from the Black Sea cost of Georgia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Holocene
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 25-36
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  • A terrestrial palaeotemperature reconstruction from western Tasmania, Australia, using non-parametric multiplicative regression and ordination analysis
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Quaternary International
    Volume: 167
    Page numbers: 121
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  • Climate, conifers and fire: the vegetation of western Tasmania during the Holocene
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Quaternary International
    Volume: 167
    Page numbers: 121
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  • Holocene vegetation and climate change from near Lake Pedder, south-west Tasmania, Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Biogeography
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 665-677
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  • Late Holocene vegetation and environments of the Mersey Valley, Tasmania
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Botany
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 74-82
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  • Modern pollen-vegetation relationships in western Tasmania, Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
    Volume: 146
    Page numbers: 146-168
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • In situ agrobiodiversity conservation: examples from Nepal, Turkey and Switzerland in the first decade of the Convention on Biological Diversity
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 653-674
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  • Late Holocene vegetation and environments of the Mersey Valley, Tasmania
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Botany
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 77-82
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Valuing local wheat landraces for agrobiodiversity conservation in Northeast Turkey
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
    Volume: 106
    Page numbers: 407-412
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A survey of modern pollen and vegetation along an altitudinal transect in southern Georgia, Caucasus region
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 229-250
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • In situ agrobiodiversity conservation in the Swiss inner Alpine zone
    Year: 2004
    Journal: GeoJournal
    Volume: 60
    Page numbers: 99-109
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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  • Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions forAustralia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SEAPAC region) at 0,6000 and 18,000 14C yr BP
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Biogeography
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 1381-1444
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Sediments as archives of industrialisation: evidence of atmospheric pollution in coastal wetlands of Southern Sydney, Australia
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Water, Air and Soil Pollution
    Volume: 149
    Page numbers: 189-210
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • The Holocene history of mediterranean-type plant communities, Little Desert National Park, Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Holocene
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 691-697
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