
Doctor Rachael Nolan
Senior Research Support Program Fellow - Bushfire Research: Environmental and Social Impacts,
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Senior Research Support Program Fellow - Bushfire Research: Environmental and Social Impacts,
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Biography
Dr Rachael Nolan works at the intersection of plant ecophysiology, fire ecology and forest fire management. Her research bridges science, policy and management, aiming to provide an early warning of the risk of bushfires, and to predict their impacts on ecosystems under a changing climate.Dr Nolan holds a Research Support Program Fellowship in Bushfire Research at Western Sydney University. She is a node leader of the NSW Bushfire and Natural Hazards Research Centre, and was a lead researcher in its predecessor, the NSW Bushfire Risk Management Research Hub. Along with her colleagues at the Bushfire Hub, Dr Nolan was awarded the prestigious Eureka Prize for Applied Environmental Research in 2021. She sits on the Science and Management Effectiveness Advisory Committee for Parks Victoria, and is an Associate Editor at the Australian Journal of Botany.
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Qualifications
- PhD University of Melbourne
- BEnvSc Monash University
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Contact
Email: | Rachael.Nolan@westernsydney.edu.au |
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Location: | M14.G.05 Hawkesbury |
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Teaching
Current Teaching Areas
- EART2001 Climate Change Science
- ENVL2008 Australian Ecosystems: Threats and Solutions
Previous Teaching Areas
- ENVL2007 Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021
Publications
Journal Articles
- Griebel, A., Metzen, D., Pendall, E., Nolan, R., Clarke, H., Renchon, A. and Boer, M. (2022), 'Recovery from severe mistletoe infection after heat- and drought-induced mistletoe death', Ecosystems, vol 25, no 1 , pp 1 - 16.
- Griebel, A., Peters, J., Metzen, D., Maier, C., Barton, C., Speckman, H., Boer, M., Nolan, R., Choat, B. and Pendall, E. (2022), 'Tapping into the physiological responses to mistletoe infection during heat and drought stress', Tree Physiology, vol 42, no 3 , pp 523 - 536.
- Wang, B., Spessa, A., Feng, P., Hou, X., Yue, C., Luo, J., Ciais, P., Waters, C., Cowie, A., Nolan, R., Nikonovas, T., Jin, H., Walshaw, H., Wei, J., Guo, X., Liu, D. and Yu, Q. (2022), 'Extreme fire weather is the major driver of severe bushfires in southeast Australia', Science Bulletin, vol 67, no 6 , pp 655 - 664.
- Gallagher, R., Allen, S., Mackenzie, B., Keith, D., Nolan, R., Rumpff, L., Gosper, C., Pegg, G., Van Leeuwen, S., Ooi, M., Yates, C., Merow, C., Williams, R., Nikolopoulos, E., Beaumont, L. and Auld, T. (2022), 'An integrated approach to assessing abiotic and biotic threats to post-fire plant species recovery : lessons from the 2019-2020 Australian fire season', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 10 , pp 2056 - 2069.
- Linley, G., Jolly, C., Doherty, T., Geary, W., Armenteras, D., Belcher, C., Bliege Bird, R., Duane, A., Fletcher, M., Giorgis, M., Haslem, A., Jones, G., Kelly, L., Lee, C., Nolan, R., Parr, C., Pausas, J., Price, J., Regos, A., Ritchie, E., Ruffault, J., Williamson, G., Wu, Q. and Nimmo, D. (2022), 'What do you mean, 'megafire'?', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 10 , pp 1906 - 1922.
- Nolan, R., Foster, B., Griebel, A., Choat, B., Medlyn, B., Yebra, M., Younes, N. and Boer, M. (2022), 'Drought-related leaf functional traits control spatial and temporal dynamics of live fuel moisture content', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol 319 .
- Nolan, R., Collins, L., Gibson, R., Samson, S., Rolls, K., Milner, K., Medlyn, B., Price, O., Griebel, A., Choat, B., Jiang, M. and Boer, M. (2022), 'The carbon cost of the 2019-20 Australian fires varies with fire severity and forest type', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 10 , pp 2131 - 2146.
- Nolan, R., Anderson, L., Poulter, B. and Varner, J. (2022), 'Increasing threat of wildfires : the year 2020 in perspective : a Global Ecology and Biogeography special issue', Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol 31, no 10 , pp 1898 - 1905.
- Abram, N., Henley, B., Gupta, A., Lippmann, T., Clarke, H., Dowdy, A., Sharples, J., Nolan, R., Zhang, T., Wooster, M., Wurtzel, J., Meissner, K., Pitman, A., Ukkola, A., Murphy, B., Tapper, N. and Boer, M. (2021), 'Connections of climate change and variability to large and extreme forest fires in southeast Australia', Communications Earth and Environment, vol 2 .
- Nolan, R., Gauthey, A., Losso, A., Medlyn, B., Smith, R., Chhajed, S., Fuller, K., Song, M., Li, X., Beaumont, L., Boer, M., Wright, I., Wright, I. and Choat, B. (2021), 'Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die-back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought', New Phytologist, vol 230, no 4 , pp 1354 - 1365.
- Poyatos, R., Granda, V., Flo, V., Adams, M., Adorjan, B., Aguade, D., Aidar, M., Allen, S., Alvarado-Barrientos, M., Anderson-Teixeira, K., Aparecido, L., Altaf Arain, M., Aranda, I., Asbjornsen, H., Baxter, R., Beamesderfer, E., Berry, Z., Berveiller, D., Blakely, B., Boggs, J., Bohrer, G., Bolstad, P., Bonal, D., Bracho, R., Brito, P., Brodeur, J., Casanoves, F., Chave, J., Chen, H., Cisneros, C., Clark, K., Cremonese, E., Dang, H., David, J., David, T., Delpierre, N., Desai, A., Do, F., Dohnal, M., Domec, J., Dzikiti, S., Edgar, C., Eichstaedt, R., El-Madany, T., Elbers, J., Eller, C., Euskirchen, E., Ewers, B., Fonti, P., Forner, A., Forrester, D., Freitas, H., Galvagno, M., Garcia-Tejera, O., Ghimire, C., Gimeno, T., Grace, J., Granier, A., Griebel, A., Guangyu, Y., Gush, M., Hanson, P., Hasselquist, N., Heinrich, I., Hernandez-Santana, V., Herrmann, V., Holtta, T., Holwerda, F., Irvine, J., Isarangkool Na Ayutthaya, S., Jarvis, P., Jochheim, H., Joly, C., Kaplick, J., Kim, H., Klemedtsson, L., Kropp, H., Lagergren, F., Lane, P., Lang, P., Lapenas, A., Lechuga, V., Lee, M., Leuschner, C., Limousin, J., Linares, J., Linderson, M., Lindroth, A., Llorens, P., Lopez-Bernal, A., Loranty, M., Luttschwager, D., Macinnis-Ng, C., Marechaux, I., Martin, T., Matheny, A., McDowell, N., McMahon, S., Meir, P., Meszaros, I., Migliavacca, M., Mitchell, P., Molder, M., Montagnani, L., Moore, G., Nakada, R., Niu, F., Nolan, R., Norby, R., Novick, K., Oberhuber, W., Obojes, N., Oishi, A., Oliveira, R., Oren, R., Ourcival, J., Paljakka, T., Perez-Priego, O., Peri, P., Peters, R., Pfautsch, S. and et al, .. (2021), 'Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements : the SAPFLUXNET database', Earth System Science Data, vol 13, no 6 , pp 2607 - 2649.
- Nolan, R., Bowman, D., Clarke, H., Haynes, K., Ooi, M., Price, O., Williamson, G., Whittaker, J., Bedward, M., Boer, M., Cavanagh, V., Collins, L., Gibson, R., Griebel, A., Jenkins, M., Keith, D., Mcilwee, A., Penman, T., Samson, S., Tozer, M., Bradstock, R. and Bradstock, R. (2021), 'What do the Australian Black Summer fires signify for the global fire crisis?', Fire, vol 4, no 4 .
- Nolan, R., Collins, L., Leigh, A., Ooi, M., Curran, T., Fairman, T., Resco de Dios, V. and Bradstock, R. (2021), 'Limits to post-fire vegetation recovery under climate change', Plant, Cell and Environment, vol 44, no 11 , pp 3471 - 3489.
- Collins, L., Bradstock, R., Clarke, H., Clarke, M., Nolan, R. and Penman, T. (2021), 'The 2019/2020 mega-fires exposed Australian ecosystems to an unprecedented extent of high-severity fire', Environmental Research Letters, vol 16, no 4 .
- Resco de Dios, V. and Nolan, R. (2021), 'Some challenges for forest fire risk predictions in the 21st century', Forests, vol 12 .
- Tarin, T., Nolan, R., Medlyn, B., Cleverly, J. and Eamus, D. (2020), 'Water-use efficiency in a semi-arid woodland with high rainfall variability', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 2 , pp 496 - 508.
- Tarin, T., Nolan, R., Eamus, D. and Cleverly, J. (2020), 'Carbon and water fluxes in two adjacent Australian semi-arid ecosystems', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol 281 .
- Nolan, R., Blackman, C., Resco de Dios, V., Choat, B., Medlyn, B., Li, X., Bradstock, R. and Boer, M. (2020), 'Linking forest flammability and plant vulnerability to drought', Forests, vol 11, no 7 .
- Nolan, R., Rahmani, S., Samson, S., Simpson-Southward, H., Boer, M. and Bradstock, R. (2020), 'Bark attributes determine variation in fire resistance in resprouting tree species', Forest Ecology and Management, vol 474 .
- Santini, N., Villarruel-Arroyo, A., Adame, M., Lovelock, C., Nolan, R., Galvez-Reyes, N., Gonzalez, E., Olivares-Resendiz, B., Mastretta-Yanes, A. and Pinero, D. (2020), 'Organic carbon stocks of Mexican montane habitats : variation among vegetation types and land-use', Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol 8 .
- Bradstock, R., Nolan, R., Collins, L., Resco de Dios, V., Clarke, H., Jenkins, M., Kenny, B. and Boer, M. (2020), 'A broader perspective on the causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019-20 season of mega-fires : a response to Adams et al.', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 7 , pp 8 - 9.
- Nolan, R., Boer, M., Collins, L., Resco de Dios, V., Clarke, H., Jenkins, M., Kenny, B. and Bradstock, R. (2020), 'Causes and consequences of eastern Australia's 2019-20 season of mega-fires', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 3 , pp 1039 - 1041.
- Resco de Dios, V., Anderegg, W., Li, X., Tissue, D., Bahn, M., Landais, D., Milcu, A., Yao, Y., Nolan, R., Roy, J. and Gessler, A. (2020), 'Circadian regulation does not optimize stomatal behaviour', Plants, vol 9, no 9 .
- Kattge, J., Bonisch, G., Diaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G., Aakala, T., Abedi, M., Acosta, A., Adamidis, G., Adamson, K., Aiba, M., Albert, C., Alcantara, J., Alcazar C, C., Aleixo, I., Ali, H., Amiaud, B., Ammer, C., Amoroso, M., Anand, M., Anderson, C., Anten, N., Antos, J., Apgaua, D., Ashman, T., Asmara, D., Asner, G., Aspinwall, M., Atkin, O., Aubin, I., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Bahalkeh, K., Bahn, M., Baker, T., Baker, W., Bakker, J., Baldocchi, D., Baltzer, J., Banerjee, A., Baranger, A., Barlow, J., Barneche, D., Baruch, Z., Bastianelli, D., Battles, J., Bauerle, W., Bauters, M., Bazzato, E., Beckmann, M., Beeckman, H., Beierkuhnlein, C., Bekker, R., Belfry, G., Belluau, M., Beloiu, M., Benavides, R., Benomar, L., Berdugo-Lattke, M., Berenguer, E., Bergamin, R., Bergmann, J., Bergmann Carlucci, M., Berner, L., Bernhardt-Romermann, M., Bigler, C., Bjorkman, A., Blackman, C., Blanco, C., Blonder, B., Blumenthal, D., Bocanegra-Gonzalez, K., Boeckx, P., Bohlman, S., Bohning-Gaese, K., Boisvert-Marsh, L., Bond, W., Bond-Lamberty, B., Boom, A., Boonman, C., Bordin, K., Boughton, E., Boukili, V., Bowman, D., Bravo, S., Brendel, M., Broadley, M., Brown, K., Bruelheide, H., Brumnich, F., Bruun, H., Bruy, D., Buchanan, S., Bucher, S., Buchmann, N., Buitenwerf, R., Bunker, D., Burger, J., Burrascano, S., Burslem, D., Butterfield, B., Byun, C., Marques, M., Scalon, M., Caccianiga, M., Cadotte, M., Cailleret, M., Camac, J., Camarero, J., Campany, C., Campetella, G., Campos, J., Cano-Arboleda, L., Canullo, R., Carbognani, M., Carvalho, F., Casanoves, F., Castagneyrol, B., Catford, J., Cavender-Bares, J., Cerabolini, B., Cervellini, M., Chacon-Madrigal, E., Chapin, K., Chapin, F., Chelli, S., Chen, S., Chen, A., Cherubini, P., Chianucci, F., Choat, B., Chung, K., Chytry, M., Ciccarelli, D., Coll, L., Collins, C., Conti, L., Coomes, D., Cornelissen, J., Cornwell, W., Corona, P., Coyea, M., Craine, J., Craven, D., Cromsigt, J., Csecserits, A., Cufar, K., Cuntz, M., da Silva, A., Dahlin, K., Dainese, M., Dalke, I., Dalle Fratte, M., Dang-Le, A., Danihelka, J., Dannoura, M., Dawson, S., De Beer, A., De Frutos, A., De Long, J., Dechant, B., Delagrange, S., Delpierre, N., Derroire, G., Dias, A., Diaz-Toribio, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P., Dobrowolski, M., Doktor, D., Drevojan, P., Dong, N., Dransfield, J., Dressler, S., Duarte, L., Ducouret, E., Dullinger, S., Durka, W., Duursma, R., Dymova, O., E-Vojtko, A., Eckstein, R., Ejtehadi, H., Elser, J., Emilio, T., Engemann, K., Erfanian, M., Erfmeier, A., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Esser, G., Estiarte, M., Domingues, T., Fagan, W., Fagundez, J., Falster, D., Fan, Y., Fang, J., Farris, E., Fazlioglu, F., Feng, Y., Fernandez-Mendez, F., Ferrara, C., Ferreira, J., Fidelis, A., Finegan, B., Firn, J., Flowers, T., Flynn, D., Fontana, V., Forey, E., Forgiarini, C., Francois, L., Frangipani, M., Frank, D., Frenette-Dussault, C., Freschet, G., Fry, E., Fyllas, N., Mazzochini, G., Gachet, S., Gallagher, R., Ganade, G., Ganga, F., Garcia-Palacios, P., Gargaglione, V., Garnier, E., Garrido, J., Gasper, A., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Gibson, D., Gillison, A., Giroldo, A., Glasenhardt, M., Gleason, S., Gliesch, M., Goldberg, E., Goldel, B., Gonzalez-Akre, E., Gonzalez-Andujar, J., Gonzalez-Melo, A., Gonzalez-Robles, A., Graae, B., Granda, E., Graves, S., Green, W., Gregor, T., Gross, N., Guerin, G., Gunther, A., Gutierrez, A., Haddock, L., Haines, A., Hall, J., Hambuckers, A., Han, W., Harrison, S., Hattingh, W., Hawes, J., He, T., He, P., Heberling, J., Helm, A., Hempel, S., Hentschel, J., Herault, B., Heres, A., Herz, K., Heuertz, M., Hickler, T., Hietz, P., Higuchi, P., Hipp, A., Hirons, A., Hock, M., Hogan, J., Holl, K., Honnay, O., Hornstein, D., Hou, E., Hough-Snee, N., Hovstad, K., Ichie, T., Igic, B., Illa, E., Isaac, M., Ishihara, M., Ivanov, L., Ivanova, L., Iversen, C., Izquierdo, J., Jackson, R., Jackson, B., Jactel, H., Jagodzinski, A., Jandt, U., Jansen, S., Jenkins, T., Jentsch, A., Jespersen, J., Jiang, G., Johansen, J., Johnson, D., Jokela, E., Joly, C., Jordan, G., Joseph, G., Junaedi, D., Junker, R., Justes, E., Kabsems, R., Kane, J., Kaplan, Z., Kattenborn, T., Kavelenova, L., Kearsley, E., Kempel, A., Kenzo, T., Kerkhoff, A., Khalil, M., Kinlock, N., Kissling, W., Kitajima, K., Kitzberger, T., Kjoller, R., Klein, T., Kleyer, M., Klimesova, J., Klipel, J., Kloeppel, B., Klotz, S., Knops, J., Kohyama, T., Koike, F., Kollmann, J., Komac, B., Komatsu, K., Konig, C., Kraft, N., Kramer, K., Kreft, H., Kuhn, I., Kumarathunge, D., Kuppler, J., Kurokawa, H., Kurosawa, Y., Kuyah, S., Laclau, J., Lafleur, B., Lallai, E., Lamb, E., Lamprecht, A., Larkin, D., Laughlin, D., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Le Maire, G., Le Roux, P., Le Roux, E., Lee, T., Lens, F., Lewis, S., Lhotsky, B., Li, Y., Li, X., Lichstein, J., Liebergesell, M., Lim, J., Lin, Y., Linares, J., Liu, C., Liu, D., Liu, U., Livingstone, S., Llusia, J., Lohbeck, M., Lopez-Garcia, A., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Lososova, Z., Louault, F., Lukacs, B., Kukes, P., Luo, Y., Lussu, M., Ma, S., Maciel Rabelo Pereira, C., Mack, M., Maire, V., Makela, A., Makinen, H., Malhado, A., Mallik, A., Manning, P., Manzoni, S., Marchetti, Z., Marchino, L., Marcilio-Silva, V., Marcon, E., Marignani, M., Markesteijn, L., Martin, A., Martinez-Garza, C., Martinez-Vilalta, J., Maskova, T., Mason, K., Mason, N., Massad, T., Masse, J., Mayrose, I., McCarthy, J., McCormack, M., McCulloch, K., McFadden, I., McGill, B., McPartland, M., Medeiros, J., Medlyn, B., Meerts, P., Mehrabi, Z., Meir, P., Melo, F., Mencuccini, M., Meredieu, C., Messier, J., Meszaros, I., Metsaranta, J., Michaletz, S., Michelaki, C., Migalina, S., Milla, R., Miller, J., Minden, V., Ming, R., Mokany, K., Moles, A., Molnar, A., Molofsky, J., Molz, M., Montgomery, R., Monty, A., Moravcova, L., Moreno-Martinez, A., Moretti, M., Mori, A., Mori, S., Morris, D., Morrison, J., Mucina, L., Mueller, S., Muir, C., Muller, S., Munoz, F., Myers-Smith, I., Myster, R., Nagano, M., Naidu, S., Narayanan, A., Natesan, B., Negoita, L., Nelson, A., Neuschulz, E., Ni, J., Niedrist, G., Nieto, J., Niinemets, U., Nolan, R., Power, S., Reich, P., Tissue, D., Tjoelker, M. and Wright, I. (2020), 'TRY plant trait database : enhanced coverage and open access', Global Change Biology, vol 26, no 1 , pp 119 - 188.
- Zhu, Q., Yang, X., Yu, B., Tulau, M., McInnes-Clarke, S., Nolan, R., Du, Z. and Yu, Q. (2019), 'Estimation of event-based rainfall erosivity from radar after wildfire', Land Degradation and Development, vol 30, no 1 , pp 33 - 48.
- Nolan, R., Sinclair, J., Waters, C., Mitchell, P., Eldridge, D., Paul, K., Roxburgh, S., Butler, D. and Ramp, D. (2019), 'Risks to carbon dynamics in semi-arid woodlands of eastern Australia under current and future climates', Journal of Environmental Management, vol 235 , pp 500 - 510.
- Santini, N., Adame, M., Nolan, R., Miquelajauregui, Y., Pinero, D., Mastretta-Yanes, A., Cuervo-Robayo, A. and Eamus, D. (2019), 'Storage of organic carbon in the soils of Mexican temperate forests', Forest Ecology and Management, vol 446 , pp 115 - 125.
- Geng, Q., Ren, Q., Nolan, R., Wu, P. and Yu, Q. (2019), 'Assessing China's agricultural water use efficiency in a green-blue water perspective : a study based on data envelopment analysis', Ecological Indicators, vol 96, no 1 , pp 329 - 335.
- Yebra, M., Scortechini, G., Badi, A., Beget, M., Boer, M., Bradstock, R., Chuvieco, E., Danson, F., Dennison, P., Resco de Dios, V., Di Bella, C., Forsyth, G., Frost, P., Garcia, M., Hamdi, A., He, B., Jolly, M., Kraaij, T., Martin, M., Mouillot, F., Newnham, G., Nolan, R., Pellizzaro, G., Qi, Y., Quan, X., Riano, D., Roberts, D., Sow, M. and Ustin, S. (2019), 'Globe-LFMC, a global plant water status database for vegetation ecophysiology and wildfire applications', Scientific Data, vol 6 .
- Nolan, R., Drew, D., O'Grady, A., Pinkard, E., Paul, K., Roxburgh, S., Mitchell, P., Bruce, J., Battaglia, M. and Ramp, D. (2018), 'Safeguarding reforestation efforts against changes in climate and disturbance regimes', Forest Ecology and Management, vol 424 , pp 458 - 467.
- Nolan, R., Hedo, J., Arteaga, C., Sugai, T. and Resco de Dios, V. (2018), 'Physiological drought responses improve predictions of live fuel moisture dynamics in a Mediterranean forest', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol 263 , pp 417 - 427.
- Nolan, R., Tarin, T., Rumman, R., Cleverly, J., Fairweather, K., Zolfaghar, S., Santini, N., O'Grady, A. and Eamus, D. (2018), 'Contrasting ecophysiology of two widespread arid zone tree species with differing access to water resources', Journal of Arid Environments, vol 153 .
- Nolan, R., Sinclair, J., Eldridge, D. and Ramp, D. (2018), 'Biophysical risks to carbon sequestration and storage in Australian drylands', Journal of Environmental Management, vol 208 , pp 102 - 111.
- Rumman, R., Cleverly, J., Nolan, R., Tarin, T. and Eamus, D. (2018), 'Speculations on the application of foliar 13C discrimination to reveal groundwater dependency of vegetation and provide estimates of root depth and rates of groundwater use', Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, vol 22, no 9 , pp 4875 - 4889.
- Nolan, R., Vesk, P. and Robinson, D. (2018), 'Recovery potential of microwetlands from agricultural land uses', Ecological Management and Restoration, vol 19, no 1 , pp 81 - 84.
- Santini, N., Cleverly, J., Faux, R., McBean, K., Nolan, R. and Eamus, D. (2018), 'Root xylem characteristics and hydraulic strategies of species co-occurring in semi-arid Australia', IAWA Journal, vol 39, no 1 , pp 43 - 62.
- Boer, M., Nolan, R., Resco de Dios, V., Clarke, H., Price, O. and Bradstock, R. (2017), 'Changing weather extremes call for early warning of potential for catastrophic fire', Earth's Future, vol 5, no 12 , pp 1196 - 1202.
- Nolan, R., Tarin, T., Santini, N., McAdam, S., Rumman, R. and Eamus, D. (2017), 'Differences in osmotic adjustment, foliar abscisic acid dynamics, and stomatal regulation between an isohydric and anisohydric woody angiosperm during drought', Plant, Cell and Environment, vol 40, no 12 , pp 3122 - 3134.
- Tong, X., Li, J., Nolan, R. and Yu, Q. (2017), 'Biophysical controls of soil respiration in a wheat-maize rotation system in the North China Plain', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol 246 , pp 231 - 240.
- Nolan, R., Fairweather, K., Tarin, T., Santini, N., Cleverly, J., Faux, R. and Eamus, D. (2017), 'Divergence in plant water-use strategies in semiarid woody species', Functional Plant Biology, vol 44, no 11 , pp 1134 - 1146.
- Benyon, R., Nolan, R., Hawthorn, S. and Lane, P. (2017), 'Stand-level variation in evapotranspiration in non-water-limited eucalypt forests', Journal of Hydrology, vol 551 , pp 233 - 244.
- Nolan, R., Tarin, T., Fairweather, K., Cleverly, J. and Eamus, D. (2017), 'Variation in photosynthetic traits related to access to water in semiarid Australian woody species', Functional Plant Biology, vol 44, no 11 , pp 1087 - 1097.
- Nolan, R., Resco de Dios, V., Boer, M., Caccamo, G., Goulden, M. and Bradstock, R. (2016), 'Predicting dead fine fuel moisture at regional scales using vapour pressure deficit from MODIS and gridded weather data', Remote Sensing of Environment, vol 174 , pp 100 - 108.
- Nolan, R., Boer, M., Resco de Dios, V., Caccamo, G. and Bradstock, R. (2016), 'Large-scale, dynamic transformations in fuel moisture drive wildfire activity across southeastern Australia', Geophysical Research Letters, vol 43, no 9 , pp 4229 - 4238.
- Eamus, D., Huete, A., Cleverly, J., Nolan, R., Ma, X., Tarin, T. and Santini, N. (2016), 'Mulga, a major tropical dry open forest of Australia : recent insights to carbon and water fluxes', Environmental Research Letters, vol 11, no 12 .
- Resco de Dios, V., Fellows, A., Nolan, R., Boer, M., Bradstock, R., Domingo, F. and Goulden, M. (2015), 'A semi-mechanistic model for predicting the moisture content of fine litter', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, vol 203 , pp 64 - 73.
- Nolan, R., Lane, P., Benyon, R., Bradstock, R. and Mitchell, P. (2015), 'Trends in evapotranspiration and streamflow following wildfire in resprouting eucalypt forests', Journal of Hydrology, vol 524 , pp 614 - 624.
- Nolan, R., Mitchell, P., Bradstock, R. and Lane, P. (2014), 'Structural adjustments in resprouting trees drive differences in post-fire transpiration', Tree Physiology, vol 34, no 2 , pp 123 - 136.
- Nolan, R., Lane, P., Benyon, R., Bradstock, R. and Mitchell, P. (2014), 'Changes in evapotranspiration following wildfire in resprouting eucalypt forests', Ecohydrology, vol 7, no 5 , pp 1363 - 1377.
- Vesk, P., Nolan, R., Thomson, J., Dorrough, J. and Mac Nally, R. (2008), 'Time lags in provision of habitat resources through revegetation', Biological Conservation, vol 141, no 1 , pp 174 - 186.
I’m fascinated by the role of disturbances in ecosystems, in particular the effects of fire on the landscape. I have two main areas of research. The first is focused on understanding how ecosystems respond to disturbance, and what this means for ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, habitat values and water resources. The second research area I focus on is developing models of forest flammability due to dynamics in fuel loads and fuel moisture content.
I enjoy being out in the bush, so much of my research involves fieldwork. I also do some remote sensing and modelling.
This information has been contributed by Doctor Nolan.
Current Projects
Title: | Quantifying the recovery trajectory and aboveground productivity in rainforest species after fire on rich versus poor soils |
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Western Researchers: | Kristine Crous, David Ellsworth, Rachael Nolan and Brendan Choat |
Years: | 2022-07-01 - 2025-06-30 |
ID: | P00028098 |
Title: | Determining the physiological underpinnings of Eucalypt dieback in NSW |
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Western Researchers: | Brendan Choat, Belinda Medlyn, Sebastian Pfautsch, Rachael Nolan, Matthias Boer, David Tissue, Paul Rymer and Mark Tjoelker |
Years: | 2021-06-18 - 2024-02-01 |
ID: | P00027031 |
Title: | Forecasting live fuel moisture content, the on/off switch for forest fires |
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Western Researchers: | Rachael Nolan, Matthias Boer, Belinda Medlyn and Brendan Choat |
Years: | 2020-10-31 - 2023-10-30 |
ID: | P00025973 |
Title: | Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan - Research Strategy and Implementation |
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Western Researchers: | Paul Rymer, Uffe Nielsen, Jeff Powell, Yolima Carrillo Espanol, Catriona Macdonald, Matthias Boer, Elise Pendall, Rachael Nolan, Ben Moore, Markus Riegler, Juan Francisco Salazar Sutil and Neil Perry |
Years: | 2021-05-01 - 2025-02-28 |
ID: | P00027309 |
Title: | Physics-aware machine learning for data-driven fire risk prediction |
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Western Researchers: | Matthias Boer, Rachael Nolan and Paul Hurley |
Years: | 2022-01-01 - 2024-12-31 |
ID: | P00027234 |
Title: | Quantifying forest mortality after unprecedented drought and bushfires in Eastern Australia |
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Western Researchers: | Rachael Nolan, Matthias Boer, Brendan Choat, Belinda Medlyn and Anne Griebel |
Years: | 2020-07-01 - 2023-06-30 |
ID: | P00026509 |
Previous Projects
Title: | The regreening of the Blue Mountains: Using citizen science to study post-fire recovery in the Blue Mountains |
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Western Researchers: | Belinda Medlyn, Paul Rymer, Sally Power, Brendan Choat, Rachael Nolan, Amy-Marie Gilpin, Uffe Nielsen, Matthias Boer, Kate Umbers and Ben Moore |
Years: | 2021-05-01 - 2022-06-30 |
ID: | P00027295 |
Supervision
Current Supervision
Thesis Title: | The Biogeography of Fire: Mapping Key Fuel Types Across NSW |
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Thesis Title: | Objective quantification of national forest cover and carbon stocks in support of the REDD+ Programme ? a methodological study combining remote sensing, forest inventory data and statistical modeling |
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Thesis Title: | Tree mortality and forest recovery following unprecedented drought and bushfires |
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Thesis Title: | Quantifying differences in post-fire recovery of forests; what are the causes of variation in post-fire recovery in the aftermath of the Black Summer bushfires across different forest types in New South Wales? |
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Previous Supervision
Thesis Title: | Predicting Vegetation Dynamics in Australia's Arid Zone |
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Thesis Title: | Sensitivity of Gondwana Rainforest to Drought and Fire |
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Thesis Title: | Tree mortality and forest recovery following unprecedented drought and bushfires |
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Thesis Title: | Effect of Elevated Temperatures and Drought Stress on Seed Germination and Functional Traits of Seedlings in the Cumberland Plain |
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Thesis Title: | Objective quantification of Nepal's forest carbon stocks in support of the REDD+ Programme: a methodological study combining remote sensing, forest inventory data and statistical modelling |
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Thesis Title: | The Effect of Fire History and Severity on the Flowering Phenology of Spotted Gums (Corymbia Maculata) |
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Media
Title: | Climate change is testing the resilience of native plants to fire, from ash forests to gymea lilies |
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Description: | The Conversation |
Title: | Curious Kids: why does wood crackle in a fire? |
Description: | The Conversation |
Title: | Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze |
Description: | The Conversation |
Title: | Dry winter primes Sydney Basin for early start of bushfire season, |
Description: | The Conversation |
Title: | Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse? |
Description: | The Conversation |