affiliation

NSW Dept of Environment, Climate Change and Water
Co-chair, Mountain Invasion Research Network (www.miren.ethz.ch)

email

keith.mcdougall[at]environment.nsw.gov.au

contact details

NSW Dept of Environment, Climate Change and Water, PO Box 733, Queanbeyan NSW 2620, Australia, Tel: (02) 6229 7111

research interests

• Plant ecology
• Long-term monitoring
• Plant invasions

publications

McDougall KL, Haider S, Seipel T, Kueffer C, MIREN Consortium (2009) Spread of non-native plant species into mountains: now is the time to act. Mountain Forum Bulletin 9 (2), 23-25.

Hunter D, Osborne W, Smith M, McDougall KL (2009) Breeding Habitat Use by the Southern Corroboree Frog and its Implications for the Future Conservation of this Critically Endangered Species. Ecological Management and Restoration 10 (S1), S103-S109.

Pauchard A, Kueffer C, Dietz H, Daehler CC, Alexander J, Edwards PJ, Arévalo JR, Cavieres L, Guisan A, Haider S, Jakobs G, McDougall KL, Millar CI, Naylor BJ, Parks CG, Rew LJ, Seipel T (2009) Ain’t no mountain high enough: Plant invasions reaching high elevations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7, 479–486.

Williams RJ, Wahren C-H, Tolsma AD, Sanecki GM, Papst WA, Myers BA, McDougall KL, Heinze DA, Green K (2008) Large fires in Australian alpine landscapes: their part in the historical fire regime and their impacts on alpine biodiversity. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17, 793–808.

McDougall KL, Walsh NG (2008) A conspectus of high-country Craspedia (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) of mainland south-eastern Australia. Muelleria 26, 3-10.

McDougall KL (2007) Grazing and fire in two subalpine peatlands. Australian Journal of Botany 55, 42-47.

McDougall KL, Walsh NG (2007) Treeless vegetation of the Australian Alps. Cunninghamia 10, 1-57.

Williams RJ, McDougall KL, Wahren C-H, Mansergh IM, Rosengren NJ, Papst WA (2006) Alpine Landscapes. In Ecology: An Australian Perspective. Edited by P. Attiwill and B. Wilson. Oxford University Press.

McDougall KL (2005) Recovery of an eroding peat surface on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria. Ecological Management and Restoration 6, 217-219.

McDougall KL, Morgan JW, Walsh NG, Williams RJ (2005) Plant invasions in treeless vegetation of the Australian Alps. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 7, 159-171.

McDougall KL, Summerell BA (2005) Unusual ‘outbreaks’ of a diatom (Flabellaria flocculosa) in the Australian Alps. The Victorian Naturalist 122, 202-203.

Walsh NG, McDougall KL (2004) Progress in the recovery of treeless subalpine vegetation in Kosciuszko National Park after the 2003 fires. Cunninghamia 8, 439-452.

McDougall KL, Wright GT (2004) The impact of trampling on feldmark vegetation in Kosciuszko National Park, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Botany 52, 315-320.

McDougall KL (2003) Aerial photographic interpretation of vegetation changes on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, between 1936 and 1980. Australian Journal of Botany 51, 251-256.

McDougall KL, Walsh NG (2002) The flora of Nungar Plain, a treeless sub-alpine frost hollow in Kosciuszko National Park. Cunninghamia 7, 601-610.

Walsh NG, McDougall KL (2002) Calotis pubescens (Asteraceae), change in rank and notes on its distribution and ecology. Muelleria 16, 43-45.

McDougall KL (2001) The colonisation by alpine native plants of a stabilised road verge on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria. Ecological Management and Restoration 2, 47-52.

McDougall KL (2001) Growth rates of Sphagnum cristatum in a Victorian subalpine bog and the effect of Sphagnum harvesting. Ecological Management and Restoration 2, 152-154.

current research or projects

dendrochronology of Podocarpus lawrencei