Lindsay Hutley

Lecturer in Environmental Science, Charles Darwin University

Research interests & activities

Lindsay's research is in plant physiological ecology, how vegetation interacts with the environment. This includes understanding environmental determinants of plant growth and exchanges of mass (carbon, water) and energy between vegetation and the atmosphere. Practical application of such work includes the studies quantifying water use of savanna vegetation leading to sustainable water resource management and quantifying carbon sinks strength of tropical savannas landscapes. Impacts of fire and weed invasion are other features of savanna's currently being investigated. Lindsay was a Project leader in the previous Savanna CRC and is currently a Lecturer in Environmental Science at the Northern Territory University.

Lindsay is the unit coordinator for SBI509.

Publications

Beringer J., Hutley L.B., Tapper N.J., Coutts A., Kerley A., O'Grady A.P. (2003) Fire impacts on surface heat, moisture and carbon fluxes from a tropical savanna in north Australia. International Journal of Wildland Fire, accepted.

Rossiter N.A., Setterfield S.A., Douglas M.M., Hutley L.B. (2003) Testing the grass-fire cycle: exotic grass invasion in the tropical savannas of northern Australia. Diversity and Distributions 9:169-176

Chen X., Hutley L.B., Eamus D. (2003) Carbon balance of a tropical savanna in northern Australia. Oecologia, in press.

Chen X., Eamus D., Hutley L.B., (2003) Seasonal patterns of fine-root productivity and turnover in a tropical savanna of northern Australia. Journal of Tropical Ecology, in press.

Chen X., Eamus D., Hutley L.B. (2002) Seasonal patterns of soil carbon dioxide efflux from a wet-dry tropical savanna of northern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 50:43-51.

Eamus D., Chen X., Hutley L.B. (2002) Root biomass and root fractal analyses of an open Eucalyptus forest in a savanna of north Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 50:31-41.

Contact details

Postal address: School of Science & Primary Industry, Faculty of Education, Health & Science, Charles Darwin University. Darwin. NT. 0909
Email: lindsay.hutley@cdu.edu.au
Phone: (08) 8946 7103

Relevant links

http://www.cdu.edu.au/research/profiles/profile_hutley.htm