Visiting Fellow
Fire science and management, plant ecology
Phone: +61 (0)2 95856492
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: ross.bradstock@npws.nsw.gov.au

Ross graduated with a B.Sc.(Hons) and PhD from the University of Sydney. He has worked as a research scientist with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (currently NSW DEC) for over 20 years.

Professional Activities

Ross is on the Editorial Advisory Committee for the Australian Journal of Botany and the International Journal of Wildland Fire. He has given lectures on fire science and plant ecology at the University of Wollongong, ANU, University of Western Sydney, University of New South Wales and Macquarie University. In 2004, Ross was a visiting course convenor for SRES3008 Fire in the Australian Environment with Dr Geoff Cary.

Ross is leader of the Bushfire CRC Project B.1.2. that includes Dr Geoff Cary, Dr Rod Weber (ADFA), Dr Malcolm Gill and Karen King, and is based in SRES. The project will develop optimal solutions for the sustainable management of bushfire risk in a range of ecosystems. Ross' other research interests include plant species and community dynamics in mesic and semi-arid shrublands; investigation of heat related germination cues in seeds of a broad range of species; soil heating patterns in relation to fire and fuel characteristics; spatial modelling of risk of extinction of plant and animal populations; spatial modelling of bushfire risks posed to human assets; modelling of the sensitivity of fire interval and intensity in relation to ignition rates and weather; and the use of remote sensing to measure and model fire severity patterns.

Academic Highlights

Selected Publications

Bradstock, R.A. 2003.. Protection of people and property: towards an integrated risk management model. In Australia Burning: Fire Ecology, policy and Management Issues (eds. G. Cary, D. Lindenmayer and S. Dovers) pp. 119-123, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.

Bradstock, R.A. and Kenny, B.J. 2003.. Application of plant functional traits to fire management in a conservation reserve in south-eastern Australia. Journal of Vegetation Science 14, 345-354.

Bradstock, R.A. and Cohn, J.S. 2002.. Demographic characteristics of mallee pine (Callitris verrucosa) in fire-prone mallee communities of central New South Wales. Australian Journal of Botany 50, 653-665.

Bradstock, R.A., Williams, J.E. and Gill, A.M. (eds.) 2002. Flammable Australia, The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Bradstock, R.A. and Cohn, J.S. 2002. Fire regimes and biodiversity in semi-arid mallee ecosysgtems. In Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent, (Eds. R.A. Bradstock, J.E. Williams and A.M. Gill). pp. 238-258. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Bradstock, R.A. and Cary G. 2001.. What governs fire regimes? In "Bushfire 2001" pp. 182-189. Proceedings of the Australasian Bushfire Conference, July 2001, Christchurch NZ.

Bradstock, R.A. and Gill, A.M. 2001.. Living with fire and biodiversity at the urban edge: in search of a sustainable solution to the human protection problem in southern Australia. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 2: 179-195.