Emeritus Fellow
Plantation management, silviculture to improve wood quality
Phone: +61 2 6125 4330
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: ryde.james@anu.edu.au

I formally retired from the School in June 2006 but have retained an interest in the supervision of research students and some teaching activities. I am also co-Leader of a project, funded by ACIAR concerning the role of portable sawmills as used in the Pacific Countries of Papua and New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Professional Activities

My research falls into three categories: silviculture and the manipulation of plantation crops, forest planning, and urban forestry.

I am an associate member of the Hobart based CRC for Sustainable Forestry where my contribution involves membership of an ARC funded project investigating the response, through crown dynamics, of the application of silviculture to two species of sub-tropical eucalypts.

Selected Publications

Alcorn, P.J.; Pyttel, P.; Bauhus, J,; Smith, G.; Thomas, D. ; James, R. ; Nicotra, N. 2007:

Effects of initial planting density on branch development in four-year old plantation grown Eucalyptus pilularis and E. cloeziana trees. Forest Ecology and Management (in press)

Ryde James and Alberto Del Lungo, 2005: The potential for fast-growing commercial forest plantations to supply high value roundwood. Working Paper WP/33, Forest Resources Division, FAO, Rome (Italy)