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Elizabeth Mary Tasker
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
Scientific career
ThesisThe ecological impacts of cattle grazing and associated grazier burning in the eucalypt forests of northern NSW (2002)

Elizabeth Mary Tasker is an Australian fire ecologist. She obtained a PhD in Science at the University of Sydney in 2002. She is a researcher at the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, and previously worked for the University of Wollongong and for The Australian Museum carrying out biological surveys in Melanesia. Her main area of expertise is the effects of fire and fire management on native animals and plants.[1] She was a Vice-President, and subsequently (to 2015) Director, of the Ecological Society of Australia,[2] the largest professional association of scientists in Australia, and a published wildlife photographer.[citation needed]

Selected publications

  • Tasker, Em; Dickman, Cr (2001). "A review of Elliott trapping methods for small mammals in Australia". Australian Mammalogy. 23 (2): 77. doi:10.1071/AM01077. ISSN 0310-0049.
  • Tasker, Elizabeth M.; Bradstock, Ross A. (2006). "Influence of cattle grazing practices on forest understorey structure in north-eastern New South Wales". Austral Ecology. 31 (4): 490–502. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01597.x. ISSN 1442-9993.
  • Tasker, Elizabeth M. (2004). "Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis". Austral Ecology. 29 (3): 361–362. doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2004.01411.x. ISSN 1442-9993.

References

  1. ^ Collins, Luke, Ross A. Bradstock, Elizabeth M. Tasker, and Robert J. Whelan. "Impact of fire regimes, logging and topography on hollows in fallen logs in eucalypt forest of south eastern Australia." Biological Conservation 149, no. 1 (2012): 23-31.
  2. ^ "Board of Directors". Ecological Society of Australia. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2014.