Bruce G Ward Manjimup Research

abundance arid zone ecology baiting camels control feral cats fire behaviour fire ecology fire management foxes introduced plants introduced predators monitoring predation surveys

Email Bruce

+61 8 9771 7987

Facsimile

+61 8 9777 1183

Street Address

Brain Street, Manjimup WA 6258, Australia

Postal Address

Locked Bag 2, Manjimup WA 6258, Australia

Profile¶

Principal Technical Officer (L5) Manjimup Science Division.

Expertise¶

• Fire behaviour and fire ecology research.
• Monitoring post fire/logging plant ecology.
• Feral predator census and control research.
• Feral Camel census and distribution research.

Brief CV¶

• BSc environmental science (Murdoch)
• Research experience includes;
• Fire behaviour studies,
  • Project Aquarius (W.A.)
  • Grassland fire study (NT)
  • Project Vesta (W.A.)
• Fire ecology
  • Effects of fire regimes on understorey plants
  • Measuring effects of fine grain mosaic fire on plants
  • Monitoring the impacts of timber harvesting on understorey plants- Kingston study and Forestcheck.
  • The fire response of plants to different fire age (cronosequence) in the Gibson desert and Lorna Glen study sites.
• Mammal reintroductions;
  • Desert dreaming – Gibson Desert
  • Project Eden – Shark Bay
  • Lorna Glen – reclaimed pastoral station
• Feral Predator research;
  • Develop census methods
  • Develop control methods
• Feral Camels;
  • Develop and run Camel surveys to assess numbers and distribution.

Projects¶

Fire Effects Study — “The effects of various fire regimes on the understorey plants in the jarrah forests of Western Australia”

Fine Grain fire Mosaic (Walpole) — “Measure the effect of a frequent fire regime, designed to promote a fine grain mosaic in London forest block, on the understorey plants”.

Forestcheck — “Monitor the impacts of timber harvesting on the understorey plants”.