FWPA
Current Research
There is an urgent need to develop rapid and reliable diagnostic protocols due to (1) increasing risk from invasion of exotic forest pests and pathogens, and (2) decline in technical capacit…
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Report
Australian plantation forest managers face considerable and increasing challenges to maintain and develop their forest growth and yield planning systems. While increasing precision an…
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Report
Despite the improved fertility from agricultural systems, some blue gum plantations grown on previous farmland in southern WA can respond strongly to fertilization with nitrogen (N) and p…
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African Mahogany Australia and Northern Tropical Timbers in partnership with Forest and Wood Products Australia and McGrath Forestry Services initiated a project in 2016 to understand th…
FWPA
Current Research
This project is aimed at improving the tolerance of Eucalyptus plantations to Teratosphaeria leaf disease (TLD) using genomics. Disease marker panels developed in this project will be use…
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Report
This desktop review report provides an overview of current and emerging mechanical and robotic tree pruning equipment for use in plantation forest management. Recently, increased intere…
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Report
FWPA contracted Natural Capital Economics to undertake an economic impact assessment of four randomly selected projects. The sample was selected from projects that were funded and comple…
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Report
This project was developed to provide a detailed meta-analysis of Benefit-cost Analysis (BCAs) of RD&E investment undertaken within the forestry and wood processing industry over th…