Farshad Amiraslani

PhD Candidate

Madsen Building, Rm 446
Phone: +61 2 9351 6641
Fax: +61 2 9351 3644
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Supervisor
Assoc. Prof. Deirdre Dragovich

It is believed that one particularly significant source of change in the Holocene Epoch has been the increasing level of human alteration of landscapes and eventually the global environmental condition. In recent decades, land degradation and desertification have become problems affecting sustainable development in the world. Thus, application of sound land management procedures using data monitoring seems to be inevitable. Monitoring and assessment of data are used to anticipate threshold transitions and to document changes in response to ecosystem management.

In this regard, vegetation benchmarks and indicators can be used for monitoring and controlling land degradation effectively. The vegetation forms, formations and distribution may vary according to edaphic, hydrological, anthropogenic and climatic factors.

Considering recent attempts made in environmental modelling, this PhD research is going to define and assess vegetation indicators in a dryland area of NSW, Australia.