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Tim Wardlaw is affiliated with Forestry Tasmania in Australia and focuses their research on environmental science, particularly within the context of forest ecology and management. Their work spans multiple subfields such as global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, atmospheric science, and ecological modeling.

Their research topics include forest ecology and management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, species distribution and climate change, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, forest insect ecology and management, and forest management and policy.

Wardlaw has contributed to scientific literature with papers published in various venues, including Global Change Biology, Nature, Fire, Communications Biology, and OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University. Recent publications include:

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition (2021, Nature)
  • Living on the edge: A continental-scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Bridge to the future: Important lessons from 20 years of ecosystem observations made by the OzFlux network (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Measuring a Fire. The Story of the January 2019 Fire Told from Measurements at the Warra Supersite, Tasmania (2021, Fire)
  • Global arthropod beta-diversity is spatially and temporally structured by latitude (2024, Communications Biology)

Frequent coauthors in Wardlaw's publications include Lindsay B. Hutley, Lucas A. Cernusak, Michael J. Liddell, Sebastian Seibold, and Werner Rammer.

Best Publications

  • An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network - OzFlux

    Jason Beringer;Lindsay B Hutley;Ian McHugh;Stefan K Arndt

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • The harvested side of edges: Effect of retained forests on the re-establishment of biodiversity in adjacent harvested areas

    Susan C. Baker;Thomas A. Spies;Timothy J. Wardlaw;Jayne Balmer

  • Microclimate through space and time: Microclimatic variation at the edge of regeneration forests over daily, yearly and decadal time scales

    Thomas P. Baker;Gregory J. Jordan;E. Ashley Steel;Nicholas M. Fountain-Jones

  • The Australian SuperSite Network: A continental, long-term terrestrial ecosystem observatory.

    Mirko Karan;Michael Liddell;Suzanne M Prober;Stefan Arndt

  • Macrofungal diversity and community ecology in mature and regrowth wet eucalypt forest in Tasmania: A multivariate study

    J. M. Packham;T. W. May;M. J. Brown;T. J. Wardlaw

  • Do artificial and natural defoliation have similar effects on physiology of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. seedlings

    Audrey G. Quentin;Audrey G. Quentin;Elizabeth A. Pinkard;Elizabeth A. Pinkard;Elizabeth A. Pinkard;Christopher L. Beadle;Christopher L. Beadle;Christopher L. Beadle;Timothy J. Wardlaw

  • Living on the edge: A continental-scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought.

    Jennifer M R Peters;Rosana López;Markus Nolf;Lindsay B Hutley

  • A latitudinal cline in disease resistance of a host tree

    M G Hamilton;M G Hamilton;D R Williams;D R Williams;P A Tilyard;P A Tilyard;E A Pinkard

  • The ecology and diversity of wood-inhabiting macrofungi in a native Eucalyptus obliqua forest of southern Tasmania, Australia

    Genevieve M. Gates;Caroline Mohammed;Tim Wardlaw;David A. Ratkowsky

  • Short- and long-term benefits for forest biodiversity of retaining unlogged patches in harvested areas

    Susan C. Baker;Susan C. Baker;Susan C. Baker;Charles B. Halpern;Timothy J. Wardlaw;Timothy J. Wardlaw;Rodney L. Crawford

  • Growth responses of Eucalyptus globulus Labill. to nitrogen application and severity, pattern and frequency of artificial defoliation

    E.A. Pinkard;E.A. Pinkard;C.C. Baillie;C.C. Baillie;V. Patel;V. Patel;S. Paterson;S. Paterson

  • A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: within species, across sites and between seasons

    Keith J. Bloomfield;Lucas A. Cernusak;Derek Eamus;David S. Ellsworth

  • Mycosphaerella leaf diseases of temperate eucalypts around the Southern Pacific rim

    CL Mohammed;T Wardlaw;Adm Smith;EA Pinkard

  • Temperate eucalypt forest decline is linked to altered ectomycorrhizal communities mediated by soil chemistry

    Bryony M. Horton;Morag Glen;Neil J. Davidson;Neil J. Davidson;David Ratkowsky

  • The validity of optimal leaf traits modelled on environmental conditions.

    Keith J. Bloomfield;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Lucas A. Cernusak;Derek Eamus

  • A cross-continental comparison of plant and beetle responses to retention of forest patches during timber harvest.

    Susan C. Baker;Susan C. Baker;Charles B. Halpern;Timothy J. Wardlaw;Christel Kern

  • Intercomparison of clumping index estimates from POLDER, MODIS, and MISR satellite data over reference sites

    Jan Pisek;Ajit Govind;Stefan K. Arndt;Darren Hocking

  • An analysis of pest risk and potential economic impact of pine wilt disease to Pinus plantations in Australia

    A. J. Carnegie;T. Venn;S. Lawson;M. Nagel

  • Estimating the spatio-temporal risk of disease epidemics using a bioclimatic niche model

    E.A. Pinkard;D.J. Kriticos;T.J. Wardlaw;A.J. Carnegie

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline Mohammed
Caroline Mohammed University of Tasmania
Elizabeth A. Pinkard
Elizabeth A. Pinkard Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Stefan K. Arndt
Stefan K. Arndt University of Melbourne
Christopher L. Beadle
Christopher L. Beadle University of Tasmania
Gregory J. Jordan
Gregory J. Jordan University of Tasmania
Angus J. Carnegie
Angus J. Carnegie New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Brad M. Potts
Brad M. Potts University of Tasmania
Michael Battaglia
Michael Battaglia Agriculture and Food
René E. Vaillancourt
René E. Vaillancourt University of Tasmania
Derek Eamus
Derek Eamus University of Technology Sydney

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