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Overview

Lauren T. Bennett is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their primary research focus falls within the field of Environmental Science, including several specialized subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Environmental Engineering.

Their work spans multiple topics related to ecosystem processes and management. Key topics include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Management and Policy

Lauren T. Bennett has contributed to various publication venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Ecography
  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Structural diversity underpins carbon storage in Australian temperate forests (2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Climate more important than soils for predicting forest biomass at the continental scale (2020, Ecography)
  • High-severity wildfires in temperate Australian forests have increased in extent and aggregation in recent decades (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • The fuel-climate-fire conundrum: How will fire regimes change in temperate eucalypt forests under climate change? (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Persistent changes in the horizontal and vertical canopy structure of fire-tolerant forests after severe fire as quantified using multi-temporal airborne lidar data (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Trent D. Penman
  • Thomas A. Fairman
  • Sabine Kasel
  • Nina Hinko-Najera
  • Cristina Aponte

Best Publications

  • Too much, too soon? A review of the effects of increasing wildfire frequency on tree mortality and regeneration in temperate eucalypt forests

    Thomas A. Fairman;Craig R. Nitschke;Lauren T. Bennett

  • Testing the generality of above-ground biomass allometry across plant functional types at the continent scale

    Keryn I. Paul;Stephen H. Roxburgh;Jerome Chave;Jacqueline R. England

  • Land use influences soil fungal community composition across central Victoria, south-eastern Australia

    Sabine Kasel;Lauren T. Bennett;Josquin Tibbits

  • Land-use history, forest conversion, and soil organic carbon in pine plantations and native forests of south eastern Australia

    Sabine Kasel;Lauren T. Bennett

  • Assessment of ecological effects due to forest harvesting: approaches and statistical issues

    L. T. Bennett;M. A. Adams

  • Growth and nutrient content of perennial grasslands following burning in semi-arid, sub-tropical Australia

    L.T. Bennett;T.S. Judd;M.A. Adams

  • Mortality and recruitment of fire-tolerant eucalypts as influenced by wildfire severity and recent prescribed fire

    Lauren T. Bennett;Matthew J. Bruce;Josephine MacHunter;Michele Kohout

  • Examining links between soil management, soil health, and public benefits in agricultural landscapes: an Australian perspective.

    Lauren T. Bennett;Pauline M. Mele;Shayne Annett;Sabine Kasel

  • Frequent wildfires erode tree persistence and alter stand structure and initial composition of a fire-tolerant sub-alpine forest

    Thomas A. Fairman;Lauren T. Bennett;Shauna Tupper;Craig R. Nitschke

  • Short-interval wildfires increase likelihood of resprouting failure in fire-tolerant trees

    Thomas A Fairman;Lauren T Bennett;Craig R Nitschke

  • Structural diversity underpins carbon storage in Australian temperate forests

    Cristina Aponte;Sabine Kasel;Craig R. Nitschke;Mihai A. Tanase;Mihai A. Tanase

  • Close-range vertical photography for measuring cover changes in perennial grasslands.

    Lauren T. Bennett;Terry S. Judd;Mark A. Adams

  • Evaluation of Spectral Indices for Assessing Fire Severity in Australian Temperate Forests

    Bang Nguyen Tran;Mihai A. Tanase;Lauren T. Bennett;Cristina Aponte

  • Biomass, Nutrient Content and Growth Response to Fertilisers of Six-year-old Eucalyptus globulus Plantations at Three Contrasting Sites in Gippsland, Victoria

    L. T. Bennett;C. J. Weston;P. M. Attiwill

  • The response of growth and foliar nutrients to fertilizers in young Eucalyptus globulus (Labill.) plantations in Gippsland, southeastern Australia.

    Terry S. Judd;Lauren T. Bennett;Christopher J. Weston;Peter M. Attiwill

  • The Expansion of Leptospermum laevigatum on the Yanakie Isthmus, Wilson's Promontory, Under Changes in the Burning and Grazing Regimes

    LT Bennett

  • Relationships between empirical and nominal indices of landscape function in the arid shrubland of Western Australia

    Alexander McR. Holm;Lauren T. Bennett;William A. Loneragan;Mark A. Adams

  • Climate more important than soils for predicting forest biomass at the continental scale

    Alison C. Bennett;Trent D. Penman;Stefan K. Arndt;Stephen H. Roxburgh

  • Carbon stocks in temperate forests of south-eastern Australia reflect large tree distribution and edaphic conditions☆

    Melissa Fedrigo;Sabine Kasel;Lauren T. Bennett;Stephen H. Roxburgh

  • Evaluating long-term effects of prescribed fire regimes on carbon stocks in a temperate eucalypt forest

    Lauren T. Bennett;Cristina Aponte;Thomas G. Baker;Kevin G. Tolhurst

  • Response of a perennial grassland to nitrogen and phosphorus additions in sub-tropical, semi-arid Australia

    Lauren T. Bennett;Mark A. Adams

  • Repeated prescribed fires decrease stocks and change attributes of coarse woody debris in a temperate eucalypt forest

    Cristina Aponte;Kevin G. Tolhurst;Lauren T. Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan K. Arndt
Stefan K. Arndt University of Melbourne
Mark A. Adams
Mark A. Adams University of Sydney
Trent D. Penman
Trent D. Penman University of Melbourne
Michael Tausz
Michael Tausz University of Melbourne
Stephen H. Roxburgh
Stephen H. Roxburgh Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peter M. Attiwill
Peter M. Attiwill University of Melbourne
Glenn Newnham
Glenn Newnham Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Elise Pendall
Elise Pendall Western Sydney University
Erwin Dreyer
Erwin Dreyer INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Pauline F. Grierson
Pauline F. Grierson University of Western Australia

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