Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
I have a broad research interest in biogeography and landscape ecology in relation to climate variability and fire regimes. I am particularly interested in utilising dendrochronology (tree ring) techniques to understand past climates and fire regimes of arid and semi-arid regions in Western Australia. I also have an ongoing interest in improving understanding of the interactions between climate and fire and vegetation, topography and ecosystem processes.
Funding overview
2015 A drought atlas for Western Australia from tree rings, Research Collaboration Award, The University of Western Australia
2014 ITRAX measurements of tree ring density and chemistry to reconstruct past rainfall patterns in NW Australia, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) research award
2014 ITRAX measurements of tree ring density and chemistry to reconstruct past rainfall patterns in NW Australia, Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) research award
Current projects
My current research is focused on reconstructing past rainfall variability of the Pilbara region in north-west Australia and the wheatbelt region of southwest Australia using the width and stable isotope composition of growth rings of Callitris columellaris trees.
Industrial relevance
Fire ecology and management
Sustainable management of semi-arid landscapes
Sustainable management of semi-arid landscapes
Research
Fire ecology – temporal and spatial patterns of wildfires
Semi-arid landscape ecology
Dendrochronology and paleoclimate research
Semi-arid landscape ecology
Dendrochronology and paleoclimate research
Languages
English
Keywords
- Dendroclimatology and tree ring studies
- Fire ecology
- Landscape ecology
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drought
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Droughts
Medicine & Life Sciences
tree ring
Earth & Environmental Sciences
paleoclimate
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Little Ice Age
Earth & Environmental Sciences
wildfire
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Atlases
Medicine & Life Sciences
Southern Hemisphere
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Network
Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.
Research Output 2008 2018
Potential for tree rings to reveal spatial patterns of past drought variability across western Australia
O'Donnell, A., Cook, E. R., Palmer, J. G., Turney, C. S. M. & Grierson, P., 7 Feb 2018, In : Environmental Research Letters. 13, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Western Australia
Drought
Droughts
Proxy
tree ring
Reply to Comment on 'Drought variability in the eastern Australia and New Zealand summer drought atlas (ANZDA, CE 1500-2012) modulated by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation'
Palmer, J. G., Cook, E. R., Turney, C. S. M., Allen, K., Fenwick, P., Cook, B. I., O'Donnell, A., Lough, J., Grierson, P. & Baker, P. J., 30 May 2017, In : Environmental Research Letters. 12, 6, 068002.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate
Open Access
3
Citations
(Scopus)
Better planning outcomes require adequate data and ecological understanding to be successful and credible: A reply to Evans et al., 2015
Gosper, C. R., O'Donnell, A. J., Yates, C. J., Prober, S. M. & Grierson, P. F., 2016, In : Biological Conservation. 200, p. 240-241 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter
Evidence for climate-driven synchrony of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in northwest Australia
Ong, J., Rountrey, A. N., Zinke, J., Meeuwig, J., Grierson, P., O'Donnell, A., Newman, S. J., Lough, J. M., Trougan, M. & Meekan, M., 2016, In : Global Change Biology. 22, 8, p. 2776-2786Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
synchrony
terrestrial ecosystem
marine ecosystem
Ecosystems
Fish
Evidence for extreme floods in arid subtropical northwest Australia during the Little Ice Age chronozone (CE 1400-1850)
Rouillard, A., Skrzypek, G., Turney, C., Dogramaci, S., Hua, Q., Zawadzki, A., Reeves, J., Greenwood, P., O'Donnell, A. & Grierson, P., 2016, In : Quaternary Science Reviews. 144, p. 107-122Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Little Ice Age
natural disaster
ice
intertropical convergence zone
marshes
Projects 2014 2017
- 4 Finished
The impacts of extremely severe wildfire on the interactions between regenerating karri forest plants, fungi and small foraging marsupials
Grierson, P., O'Donnell, A., Etchells, H. & McCaw, L.
Ecological Society of Australia Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Samphire suvey on the Fortescue Marsh
Grierson, P., O'Donnell, A. & Colmer, T.
Rangelands Natural Resource Management (NRM) Western Australia
2/05/16 → 31/03/17
Project: Research
A drought atlas for Western Australia using tree rings
O'Donnell, A. & Cook, E.
University of Western Australia
1/01/15 → 31/12/15
Project: Research