Tree water use and amelioration of dryland salinity

Funding: 2002: $22,545
2003: $22,545
2004: $22,545

Project Member(s): Eamus, D.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
State Forests of NSW

Start year: 2003

Summary: Dryland salinity is a huge problem for large areas of Australia. One proposal for ameliorating dryland salinity is to plant trees in upslope sites in the landscape. Such planted forests reduce movement of water through the landscape, thereby reducing mobilisation and discharge of stored salts downslope onto agricultural and sensitive riparian areas. This project will investigate tree water use in a native forest, compare it with a planted forest in the same location and investigate fundamental relationships among climate, tree size, canopy area and water use. The outcome of this project is a deep mechanistic understanding of the efficacy of trees for salinity abatement.

Publications:

Eamus, D & Froend, R 2006, 'Groundwater-dependent ecosystems: the where, what and why of GDEs', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 91-96.
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Eamus, D, Froend, R, Loomes, R, Hose, G & Murray, B 2006, 'A functional methodology for determining the groundwater regime needed to maintain the health of groundwater-dependent vegetation', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 97-114.
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Hill, MJ, Senarath, U, Lee, A, Zeppel, M, Nightingale, JM, Williams, RDJ & McVicar, TR 2006, 'Assessment of the MODIS LAI product for Australian ecosystems', Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 101, no. 4, pp. 495-518.
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Zeppel, MJB, Yunusa, IAM & Eamus, D 2006, 'Daily, seasonal and annual patterns of transpiration from a stand of remnant vegetation dominated by a coniferous Callitris species and a broad-leaved Eucalyptus species', PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM, vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 413-422.
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Eamus, D, Macinnis-Ng, CMO, Hose, GC, Zeppel, MJB, Taylor, DT & Murray, BR 2005, 'Ecosystem services: an ecophysiological examination', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
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Zeppel, MJB, Murray, BR, Barton, C & Eamus, D 2004, 'Seasonal responses of xylem sap velocity to VPD and solar radiation during drought in a stand of native trees in temperate Australia', FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 461-470.
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Eamus, D & Christian, K 2003, 'Monsoonal Tropical Australia' in Attiwill, P & Wilson, B (eds), Ecology: an Australian Perspective, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 315-331.

Eamus, D 2003, 'How does ecosystem water balance affect net primary productivity of woody ecosystems?', FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 187-205.
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Murray, BBR, Zeppel, MJB, Hose, GC & Eamus, D 2003, 'Groundwater‐dependent ecosystems in Australia: It's more than just water for rivers', Ecological Management & Restoration, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 110-113.
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Keywords: Tree water use Catchment water balance Dryland salinity Landscape ecology Sapflow

FOR Codes: Landscape Ecology, Plant Physiology, Native forests, Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment, Consumption Patterns, Population Issues and the Environment, Plant physiology , Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.