affiliation

NSW Dept of Environment and Climate Change

email

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

contact details

NSW Dept of Environment and Climate Change, PO Box 2115, Queanbeyan NSW 2620, Australia, Tel: (02) 6298 9729, Fax: (02) 6299 4281

research interests

• Plant ecology
• Long-term monitoring

publications

McDougall, K L (1982) Alpine vegetaion of the Bogong High Plains, Environmental Studies Publication No.357, Ministry of Conservation, Victoria

van Rees, H, Papst, W A, McDougall, K L & Boston, R C (1985) Trends in vegetation cover in the grassland community of the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australian Rangeland Journal 7: 93-98

McDougall, K L (1989) The effect of excluding cattle from a mossbed on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research Techincal Report Series No.90, Dept of Conservation, Forests & Lands, Victoria

Victorian Conservation Trust & Soil Conservation Authority: Bogong High Plains vegetation maps and guides to the alpine flora. Rocky Valley mapsheet (1982, 1986 2nd ed), Pretty Valley mapsheet (1983), Hotham mapsheet (1984), Bogong mapsheet (1985)

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

McDougall KL, Walsh NG (in press) A conspectus of high-country Craspedia of mainland south-eastern Australia. Muelleria

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

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.

McDougall KL, Appleby ML (2000) Plant invasions in the high mountains of north-eastern Victoria. The Victorian Naturalist 117, 52-59.

van Rees H, Papst WA, McDougall KL, Boston RC (1985) Trends in vegetation cover in the grassland community on the Bogong High Plains, Victoria. Australian Rangeland Journal 7:93-98

current research or projects

Ecology and dendrochronology of Podocarpus lawrencei (with Linda Broome)

Aerial photographic interpretation of vegetation change in Kosciuszko National Park

Post-fire monitoring of vegetation responses

Global assessment of mountain plant invasions (for Mountain Invasives Research Network http://www.miren.ethz.ch)