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Professor Jennifer Firn

Professor
Science and Engineering Faculty
Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences
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From grasslands to tropical forests: understanding the implications of pervasive environmental change on plant populations, plant communities and local people. I am a restoration ecologist who specializes in studying ecological theory and then linking these theoretical constructs to the practical management of grasslands and tropical forests. The driving motivation in my Academic career is to find smarter, cheaper and more sustainable ways of restoring degraded plant communities, whether that be grasslands or forests. Globally, unsustainable land use has led to the degradation of many valuable ecosystems and the loss of irreplaceable biodiversity. My research and the research of my HDR students focuses on developing a better understanding of how the loss of native biodiversity impacts on ecosystems and subsequently finding better ways to bring it back. I am an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ecology and Evolution and an Associate Editor with the Journal of Applied Ecology. To read more about our research, please follow this link.

I am also the discipline leader for QUT’s Sustainable Environments.

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Plant biology
invasion plant species management
Ecological applications
Ecology
ecosystem ecology
community ecology
theoretical ecology

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Name: Professor Jennifer Firn
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Date record created:
2013-12-05
Date record modified:
2019-08-29T12:35:58
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Published - Open Access