Dr Alison Basden Climate Change Ecology Group Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University

Contact details Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University,         NSW 2109, Australia Building E8C, Room 142 Tel: +61 2 9850 8191 Fax: +61 2 9850 8245 Email: abasden@rna.bio.mq.edu.au Position Macquarie University Research Fellow

Research Interests
I am investigating the likely effect of global warming on the outcome of competition at vegetation boundaries. Focussing on the high altitude cool-temperate rainforest at Barrington Tops, NSW, my work comprises an integrated series of studies including field measurements and transplant experiments, analyses of existing databases using GIS techniques, and growth cabinet experiments.

Another aspect of my work is studying how Nothofagus moorei recovers after fire, and I am monitoring some rainforest stands that were badly burnt in the November 2002 bushfires at Barrington Tops.

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• Barrington Tops and its vegetation communities
• climate change
• my research plan

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Author: Alison Basden
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Last updated February 2004