Dr Patrick Baker

M.F.   Yale University, 1993
Ph.D. University of Washington, 2001

Telephone: +61-3-9905-0508
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: patrick.baker@monash.edu

• Forest ecology and dynamics
• Dendroecology
• Silviculture of mixed species forests

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Honours projects for prospective students

• Nock CA, Baker PJ, Bunyavejchewin S, Wanek W, Leiss A, Heitz P. 2011. Long-term increases intrinsic water-use efficiency do not lead to increased stem growth in a tropical monsoon forest in western Thailand. Global Change Biology. 17: 1049-1063.
• Baker, P.J. 2010. Juvenile growth patterns in tropical trees: selection effects, history, or both...? Invited commentary. New Phytologist 185: 595-597.
• Cunningham, SC, MacNally R, Read J, Baker PJ, Thompson, J. 2010. Does stand structure influence susceptibility of eucalypt floodplain forests to dieback? Austral Ecology 35: 348-356
• Horner, G., P.J. Baker, R. MacNally, S.C. Cunningham†, J.R. Thomson. 2010. Carbon and habitat benefits from thinning floodplain forests: managing early stand structure makes a difference. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 286-293.
• Horner, G., P.J. Baker, S.C. Cunningham†, J.R. Thomson, R.MacNally. 2009. Spacing effects on growth and mortality of river red gum in a changing climate. Global Change Biology 15: 2176-2186.
  
• Nock, C.A., D. Geihofer, M. Grabner, P.J. Baker, S. Bunyavejchewin, and P. Hietz. 2009. Wood density and its radial variation in six canopy tree species differing in shade-tolerance in western Thailand. Annals of Botany 104: 297-306.
• Harris S, †Allen K, Baker P, Bird T, Bowman D, Connolly S, d'Arville L, Harwood C, Rozefelds A, Wardlaw T. 2009. Guidelines for collecting and conserving dendrochronology samples from Tasmanian public reserves. Tasforests 18: 145-157.
• Baker, P.J. and S. Bunyavejchewin. 2009. Fire behavior and fire effects across the forest landscape mosaics of continental Southeast Asia. Pp. 311-334 in M.A. Cochrane, ed. Tropical Fire Ecology: Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics. Springer-Praxis, Heidelberg, Germany. (Invited book chapter)
• Cunningham, S.C., R. Mac Nally, J. Read, P.J. Baker, M. White, J.R. Thomson, and P. Griffioen. 2009. A robust technique for mapping vegetation condition across a major river system. Ecosystems. 12: 207-219.
  
• Zimmer, H., and P.J. Baker. 2009. The role of regional climate and local disturbance on pine recruitment in southeast Asia. Forest Ecology and Management. 257: 190-198. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2008.08.027.
  
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