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Dr Patrick Baker

Senior Lecturer

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 "at" sci.monash.edu.au

Dr Patrick Baker
Research areas
  • Forest ecology and dynamics
  • Dendroecology
  • Silviculture of mixed species forests

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Recent publications
  • Elliott, S., P. J. Baker, and R. Borchert. In press. Leaf flushing during the dry season: The paradox of Asian monsoon forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
  • Baker, P. J., S. Bunyavejchewin, C. D. Oliver, and P. S. Ashton. 2005. Disturbance history and historical stand dynamics of a seasonal tropical forest in western Thailand. Ecological Monographs 75: 317 – 343. (pdf 726kb)
  • Baker, P. J., and P.G. Scowcroft. 2005. Stocking guidelines for the endemic Hawaiian hardwood, Acacia koa. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 17: 462 – 473.
  • Bunyavejchewin, S., P. J. Baker, J. V. LaFrankie, and P. S. Ashton. 2004. Structure, history, and rarity in a seasonal evergreen forest in western Thailand. E. C. Losos and E. G. Leigh (eds.), Forest Diversity and Dynamism:  Findings from a Network of Large-Scale Tropical Forest Plots. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, USA.
  • Baker, P. J. 2003. Tree age estimation for the tropics: A test from the southern Appalachians. Ecological Applications 13: 1718 – 1732. (pdf 299kb)
  • Baker, P. J., and J. S. Wilson. 2003. Coexistence and relative abundance in forest trees. Nature 422: 581 – 582. (pdf 78kb)
  • Bunyavejchewin, S., P. J. Baker, J. V. LaFrankie, and P. S. Ashton. 2002. Floristic composition of a seasonal evergreen forest, Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, western Thailand. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society 50: 125 – 134.
  • Wilson, J.S., and P. J. Baker. 2001. Flexibility in forest management: managing uncertainty in Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management 145: 219-227. (pdf 161kb)
  • Baker, P. J., and J.S. Wilson. 2000. Identification of canopy stratification in tropical and temperate forests: a quantitative technique. Forest Ecology and Management 127: 77-86. (pdf 289kb)
  • Condit, R., P. S. Ashton, P. J. Baker, S. Bunyavejchewin, S. Gunatilleke, N. Gunatilleke, S. P. Hubbell, R. B. Foster, A. Itoh, J. V. LaFrankie, Hua Seng Lee, E. Losos, N. Manokoran, R. Sukumar, and T. Yamakura. 2000. Spatial patterns in the distribution of tropical tree species. Science 288: 1414-1418. (pdf566kb)

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