GES Staff/Merna McKenzie
Research Interests:
Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history and plant extinctions. Rainforest/wet sclerophyll dynamics and rainforest refugia . Palaeoecology of Nothofagus cunninghamii Quantification of Holocene climates. Fine resolution fossil pollen, charcoal and macrofossil studies.
Current research:
Investigation of an 18 m core from Caledonia Fen, Alpine National Park in the Snowy Ranges, Victoria. The record to date reveals fluctuations in dryland trees, subalpine vegetation and aquatics. It covers all or part of the last glacial period and may extend beyond the last glacial to the penultimate glacial. This will provide a good basis for understanding the present vegetation cover of southeastern Australian high montane and subalpine areas.
Publications:
- G. M. McKenzie and A. P. Kershaw 'A vegetation history and quantitative estimate of Holocene climate from Chapple Vale, in the Otway Region of Victoria, Australia' Australian Journal of Botany, 45, 565-581, 1997
- G. M. McKenzie 'The late Quaternary vegetation history of the south-central highlands of Victoria, Australia. I. Sites above 900 m'Australian Journal of Ecology. 22, 19-36, 1997
Address
- Room No: S112, Menzies Building
- Telephone No: +61-3--99055299
- Merna.Mckenzie@arts.monash.edu.au