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Assoc Prof. Jenny Read

Associate Professor

BSc (ANU) Hons (Tas), PhD University of Tasmania, 1986

Telephone: +61-3-9905-5622
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: Jenny.Read@sci.monash.edu.au

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Jenny Read
Research areas
  • The controls of rainforest structure and composition
  • The differences in biology between tropical and temperate species
  • The functional significance of leaf form

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Recent publications
  • MacNally R, Molyneux G, Thompson JR, Lake PS, Read J (in press) Variation in widths of riparian-zone vegetation of higher-elevation streams and implications for conservation management. Plant Ecology.
  • Read J, Sanson GD, Burd M, Jaffré T (2008) Mass flowering and parental death in the regeneration of Cerberiopsis candelabra (Apocynaceae), a long-lived monocarpic tree in New Caledonia. American Journal of Botany 95, 558-567.
  • Read J, Wevill  P, Fletcher T, Deletic A (2008) Variation among plant species in pollutant removal from stormwater in biofiltration systems. Water Research 42, 893-902.
  • Sommerville KE, Read J (2008) Contrasting water-use strategies in two sympatric cool- temperate rainforest species, Nothofagus cunninghamii (Nothofagaceae) and Atherosperma moschatum (Atherospermataceae). Australian Journal of Botany 56, 109-118.
  • Cunningham SC, Read J, Baker PJ, MacNally R (2007) Quantitative assessment of stand condition and its relationship to physiological stress in stands of Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Botany 55, 692-699.
  • Cunningham SC, Mac Nally R, White M, Read J, Baker PJ, Thomson J, Griffioen P (2007) Mapping the current condition of river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.) stands along the Victorian Murray River floodplain. A report to the Northern Victorian Catchment Management Authorities and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
  • Peeters PJ, Sanson G, Read J (2007) Leaf biomechanical properties and the densities of herbivorous insect guilds. Functional Ecology 21, 246-255.
  • Read J, Lamont B, Sanson G, de Garine-Wichatitsky M, Jaffré T (2007) Is sclerophylly the same phenomenon in shrublands in contrasting environments? Kwongan in Western Australia and maquis in New Caledonia.  In Proceedings of the MEDECOS XI 2007 Conference, 2-5 September, Perth, Australia. Eds. D. Rokich, G. Wardell-Johnson, C Yates, J Stevens, K Dixon, R McLellan, G Moss, pp. 203-204. Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth, Australia.
  • Wills J, Read J (2007) Soil seed bank dynamics in post-fire heathland succession in south-eastern Australia.  Plant Ecology 190, 1-12.

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