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The Industry Plantation Management Group - Applied Research and Extension logo
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The Industry Plantation Management Group - Applied Research and Extension

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

This five-year program, is focussed on providing the capacity to enable multi-party coordination of regional or national scale applied R,D&E projects from project development, through to funding, implementation, reporting, extension and industry adoption for the Australian plantation forestry industry. The outcomes being improved coordination of industry-led collaborative R&D projects with...

22 Jun 2018 - 15 Jun 2023

Victoria, Australia

Giant Pine Scale Postgraduate Research Scholarship Agreement logo
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Giant Pine Scale Postgraduate Research Scholarship Agreement

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

Giant Pine Scale (Marchalina hellenica) is a scale insect that sucks the sap of pine trees. If established, the insect poses a threat to Australia’s softwood plantation industry, by causing branch dieback, desiccation and eventual tree death. This post graduate research scholarship will focus on gathering data on the biology...

20 Sep 2018 - 20 Sep 2020

Victoria, Australia

Developing exotic pest surveillance capacity in high risk areas across Australia logo
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Developing exotic pest surveillance capacity in high risk areas across Australia

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

By improving exotic forest/tree pest surveillance capability across Australia, this project aims to support early detection and mitigate the adverse impact of pests on native forests, plantations and urban trees.

12 Jun 2020 - 12 Dec 2021

Victoria, Australia

Optimising productivity of hardwood plantations: yield gap analysis for Eucalyptus globulus plantations in southern Australia logo
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Optimising productivity of hardwood plantations: yield gap analysis for Eucalyptus globulus plantations in southern Australia

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

By defining the potential yield of plantations, estimating the gap between potential and actual yield, and attributing parts of the gap to major limiting factors, this project will provide a framework for making decisions on the location of plantations and the improvement of yields due to silvicultural practices. These might...

25 Jun 2020 - 30 May 2022

Victoria, Australia

Database capture of individual significant-scale Australian forestry plantation fire losses logo
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Database capture of individual significant-scale Australian forestry plantation fire losses

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

The aim of this project is to build a knowledge base that will assist with risk management and strategic planning. Taking into account only the larger-scale losses (ie about 100 ha or more per fire), provide a database of plantation area fire losses by year, by region and by species....

4 Mar 2020 - 1 Apr 2021

Victoria, Australia

Australian Forest Herbicide Research Consortium logo
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Australian Forest Herbicide Research Consortium

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

This project aims to maintain and increase the capacity of the Australian forest industry by ensuring the continued availability of effective, environmentally and socially acceptable chemical control options for weeds, pests and diseases. It will do this by coordinating the forestry specific pesticide research effort, developing and promoting industry best...

6 Apr 2018 - 30 Jun 2022

Victoria, Australia

Lifting farmgate profitability through high value modular agroforestry logo
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Lifting farmgate profitability through high value modular agroforestry

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

This project will address the development and adoption of knowledge to support targeted integration of trees into agricultural landscapes where they will improve farm-level profitability. This will be achieved through development of the novel concept of high value modular agroforestry. When adopted by farmers, this system will bring multiple benefits...

17 Jun 2016 - 1 May 2020

Victoria, Australia

Solutions for the optimal use of remotely acquired, high resolution data by the forestry sector logo
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Solutions for the optimal use of remotely acquired, high resolution data by the forestry sector

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

Rapidly advancing remote sensors on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), airborne and satellite platforms are providing high-fidelity data in terms of spatial, spectral and temporal resolution. This project will use remote sensors on UAVs, airborne and satellite platforms to provide high-fidelity data with spatial, spectral and temporal resolution. A team of...

1 Mar 2019 - 15 Apr 2021

Victoria, Australia

Optimising machinery configurations for profitable harvesting operations of small-scale plantations logo
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Optimising machinery configurations for profitable harvesting operations of small-scale plantations

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

This project will provide guidelines and a web-based decision support tool (DSS) to effectively select harvesting equipment configurations for smaller, more dispersed woodlots. This may improve profitability for landowners, contractors, consultants, forest companies and potential machinery co-operatives.

15 Dec 2018 - 31 Oct 2020

Victoria, Australia

Unlocking Financial Innovation in Forest Products with Natural Capital logo
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Unlocking Financial Innovation in Forest Products with Natural Capital

Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA)

Natural capital is the soil, air, water biodiversity and land resources that underpin food and fibre production. The forest industry plays an important role in the stewardship of natural capital. Forests are exposed to a wide variety of natural capital risks, including climate change, extreme weather events, changes in the...

15 Feb 2019 - 1 Apr 2022

Victoria, Australia