Professor Susanne Schmidt    Professor

	Biography

Plant ecophysiology: how plants "work" in natural and disturbed habitats

Dr Schmidt's research focuses on Australian plants and ecosystems, spanning from ecological to molecular approaches to understand how ecosystems and plants function.

Current research activities include:

• Nitrogen relations of Australian savannas in context with savanna uses and management
  
  
• Functional aspects of biodiversity: multi-species rainforest plantations for ecological and economic benefits including carbon sequestration
  
  
• Improving the nitrogen use efficiency of sugarcane through molecular marker identification to reduce environmental pollution
  
  
• Quantification of greenhouse gas emissions (N2O, CH4) from sugarcane and mangrove ecosystems
  
  
• Global change: comparing historic and current species in the subantarctic
  
  
• Understanding rarity in plants using novel physiological approaches
  
  
• Wallum: a coastal ecosystem threatened by urban development
  
  
• Cluster roots and their use of organic forms of nitrogen

	Keywords
	Science and Technology: Plant Nutrition, Science and Technology: Plant Sciences, Science and Technology: Biodiversity, Science and Technology: Ecosystem(s), Science and Technology: Carbon Sequestration, Science and Technology: Greenhouse Gases