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Mandy Gravina
   
Position Research Scientist
Field Restoration Ecology
E-mail m.gravina@cmlr.uq.edu.au
Phone/Fax (P) +61 7 3365 9126
(F) +61 7 3365 3452
   
Scientific Interests - Success and sustainability of restored vegetation communities
- Ecosystem establishment processes and patterns and ecological functioning
- Seed biology
Current/Recent Projects
  • Monitoring and assessment of rehabilitation for the closure of Kidston Gold Mine
  • Monitoring and assessment of vegetation, habitat, soil and erosion parameters at Moura Mine
  • Vegetation development on rehabilitation areas at Tarong minesite 
  • North Stradbroke Island (CRL) fire soil seedbank assessment 
  • Investigation of biology and ecology of threatened species, Tetratheca juncea occurring on mine leases 
  • Native grass species and provenances most suitable for planting on main road verges - A collaborative project between The University of Queensland, Greening Australia and Queensland Department of Primary Industries. Report to Department of Main Roads, Queensland.
  • Landscape Function Analysis assessment of rehabilitation at the Kidston Minesite. 
Recent/Key Publications

Poster paper in conference proceedings:

Gravina, A.J. and Bellairs, S.M. (2000). Viability testing of Australian native species using tetrazolium. In 'Proceedings of Third Australian Workshop on Native Seed Biology for Revegetation'. 17-18 May 1999, Perth. (Eds. C.J. Asher and L.C. Bell) pp 85-89. (Australian Centre for Mining Environmental Research: Brisbane).

Poster abstract in conference proceedings:

A.J. Gravina, S.M. Bellairs and F.V. Bartier (2002) Tetratheca juncea: seed bioogy of a threatened species in ‘VII international Workshop on Seed Biology’, May 12–16 2002, Salamanca, Spain.

Posters:

A.J. Gravina, S.M. Bellairs and F.V. Bartier (2002) Tetratheca juncea: seed bioogy of a threatened species in ‘VII international Workshop on Seed Biology’, May 12–16 2002, Salamanca, Spain.

Gravina, A.J. and Bellairs, S.M. (2000a). Viability testing of Australian native species using tetrazolium. At 25th Minerals Council. 

Gravina, A.J. and Bellairs, S.M. (2000b). Viability testing of Australian native species using tetrazolium. At the Third Australian Workshop on Native Seed Biology for Revegetation'. 17-18 May1999, Perth.



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