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Stephen H. Roxburgh is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science with a strong focus on the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to forest ecology and management, forest management and policy, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, forest biomass utilization and management, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Recent publications include:

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth, 2020, Nature
  • Climate more important than soils for predicting forest biomass at the continental scale, 2020, Ecography
  • Predicting carbon sequestration of woody biomass following land restoration, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Climate extreme variables generated using monthly time-series data improve predicted distributions of plant species, 2021, Ecography
  • How disturbance history alters invasion success: biotic legacies and regime change, 2021, Ecology Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Keryn I. Paul
  • Jacqueline R. England
  • David I. Forrester
  • Liubov Volkova
  • Christopher J. Weston

The scientist often publishes in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Forest Ecology and Management, Ecography, The Rangeland Journal, and Ecological Modelling.

Stephen H. Roxburgh has also contributed a book titled Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol published in 2021 by Ghent University.

Best Publications

  • THE INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS: PATCH DYNAMICS AND MECHANISMS OF SPECIES COEXISTENCE

    Stephen H. Roxburgh;Katriona Shea;J. Bastow Wilson

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

    Susan C. Cook-Patton;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Sara M. Leavitt;David Gibbs;Nancy L. Harris

  • Moving from pattern to process: Coexistence mechanisms under intermediate disturbance regimes

    Katriona Shea;Stephen H. Roxburgh;Emily S. J. Rauschert

  • Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland

    Karel Mokany;Julian Ash;Stephen H. Roxburgh

  • How frequency and intensity shape diversity-disturbance relationships.

    Adam D. Miller;Stephen H. Roxburgh;Katriona Shea

  • 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

  • The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

    L. Duncanson;J. Armston;M. Disney;V. Avitabile

  • Assessing the carbon sequestration potential of managed forests : a case study from temperate Australia

    S. H. Roxburgh;S. W. Wood;B. G. Mackey;G. Woldendorp

  • A demonstration of guild-based assembly rules for a plant community, and determination of intrinsic guilds

    J. Bastow Wilson;Stephen H. Roxburgh

  • Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally.

    Alicia Ledo;Keryn I. Paul;David F. R. P. Burslem;John J. Ewel

  • Development and testing of allometric equations for estimating above-ground biomass of mixed-species environmental plantings

    Keryn I. Paul;Stephen H. Roxburgh;Jacqueline R. England;Peter Ritson

  • Terrestrial Ecosystems

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  • Multiple observation types reduce uncertainty in Australia's terrestrial carbon and water cycles

    V. Haverd;M. R. Raupach;P. R. Briggs;J. G. Canadell

  • OptIC project: An intercomparison of optimization techniques for parameter estimation in terrestrial biogeochemical models

    Cathy M. Trudinger;Michael R. Raupach;Peter J. Rayner;Jens Kattge

  • Guidelines for constructing allometric models for the prediction of woody biomass: How many individuals to harvest?

    S. H. Roxburgh;K. I. Paul;D. Clifford;J. R. England

  • An ecoclimatic framework for evaluating the resilience of vegetation to water deficit.

    Patrick J Mitchell;Anthony P O'Grady;Elizabeth A Pinkard;Tim J Brodribb

  • A NEW METHOD FOR DETECTING SPECIES ASSOCIATIONS WITH SPATIALLY AUTOCORRELATED DATA

    Stephen H. Roxburgh;Peter Chesson

  • Diversity–disturbance relationships: frequency and intensity interact

    Alex R. Hall;Adam D. Miller;Helen C. Leggett;Helen C. Leggett;Stephen H. Roxburgh

  • Experimental evidence rejects pairwise modelling approach to coexistence in plant communities

    Carsten F Dormann;Stephen H Roxburgh

  • Stability and coexistence in a lawn community: mathematical prediction of stability using a community matrix with parameters derived from competition experiments

    Stephen H. Roxburgh;J. Bastow Wilson

  • An eco-climatic framework for evaluating the resilience of vegetation to water deficit

    P.J. Mitchell;A.P. O'Grady;E.A. Pinkard;T.J. Brodribb

Frequent Co-Authors

Keryn I. Paul
Keryn I. Paul Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Katriona Shea
Katriona Shea Pennsylvania State University
Karel Mokany
Karel Mokany Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Damian Barrett
Damian Barrett Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Elizabeth A. Pinkard
Elizabeth A. Pinkard Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Shaun C. Cunningham
Shaun C. Cunningham Deakin University
Vanessa Haverd
Vanessa Haverd Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lauren T. Bennett
Lauren T. Bennett University of Melbourne
Garry D. Cook
Garry D. Cook Arafurica Pty Ltd
Anthony P. O'Grady
Anthony P. O'Grady Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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