Projects
Here is a list of ongoing and past EucFACE projects. Some of the ongoing projects are listed in more detail below.
Mechanistic responses of phosphorus-limited forests to CO2 enrichment
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Prof Ben Smith, Dr Catriona Macdonald, Prof David Ellsworth, Prof Anja Ramming, Dr David Wårlind
Partner/Funding Body: Australian Research Council
Project period: 2022-2026
How will elevated CO2 affect the timing, duration and quality of nectar production in E. tereticornis, and what will be the consequences for nectarivores
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Assoc Prof Ben Moore (Lead), Assoc Prof Ricky Spencer
Partner/Funding Body: Some acoustic monitors is funded by UWS sustainability fund
Partner/Funding Body: Some acoustic monitors is funded by UWS sustainability fund
How will elevated CO2 will affect the rate and quality of sap flow, and what will be the consequences for exudivorous marsupials.
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Assoc Prof Ben Moore (Lead), Prof. Ross Goldingay
Measuring flying and understory invertebrate abundance and diversity in ambient and enriched CO2 conditions
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Dr Scott Johnson, PhD Sarah Facey, Prof David Ellsworth,
Dr Lisa Bromfield, Dr Markus Riegler, Assoc Prof Uffe Nielsen
Partner/Funding Body: Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Higher Degree Research Award and visiting research grant from the British Ecological Society
Partner/Funding Body: Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment Higher Degree Research Award and visiting research grant from the British Ecological Society
Structure of the EucFACE canopy: laser scanning, hemispherical photography, and modelling
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Dr Teresa Gimeno, Prof Matthias Boer, Prof Darius Culvenor CSIRO,
Dr Glenn Newnham CSIRO, Dr Craig Barton, Prof David Ellsworth
Project period: 2012 - 2015
Project period: 2012 - 2015
Do soils breath more under elevated CO2?
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Dr Catriona Macdonald, Dist Prof Brajesh Singh, Prof Ian Anderson, Prof Mark Tjoelker, Dist Prof Peter Reich
Monitoring groundwater levels in a native old-growth Cumberland plain forest
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Prof Teresa Gimeno, Prof David Ellsworth, Dist Prof David Tissue, Dr Craig Barton, Dr Tim McVicar CSIRO,
Dr Anthony O’Grady CSIRO
Dr Lu Zhang CSIRO
Lianas in a CO2-rich world
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: PhD Candidate Geertje van der Heiden, Assoc Prof Doreen Boyd, University of Nottingham,Assoc Prof Rachael Gallagher, Prof Matthias Boer, Dist Prof Belinda Medlyn
P-fertilisation trial
Project leader, researchers and collaborators: Dr Catriona Macdonald, Dr Yolima Carrillo, Prof Elise Pendall, Prof Jeff Powel, Assoc Prof Uffe Nielsen, Prof Sally Power, Prof David Ellsworth, Dr Kristine Crous