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Name: Dr Samantha Setterfield Dr Samantha Setterfield
Qualifications: BSc (Hons)
PhD
Main role: Plant Ecologist
Phone: + 61 8 8946 6756
Fax: +61 8 8946 6847
Email: samantha.setterfield@cdu.edu.au
Address: School of Science and Primary Industries
Faculty of Education, Health and Science
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT 0909
Australia


Research Interests

Samantha's main area of research is plant ecology. More specifically she is interested in:

  • The effects of fire on savanna vegetation
  • Restoration ecology
  • Reproductive ecology of savanna vegetation
  • Environmental weeds

Recent Publications

 

Book chapters

  1. Williams, R.J., Muller, W.J., Wahren, C., Setterfield, S.A. and Cusack, J. (2003). Vegetation. In Andersen, A. N., Cook, G.D. and Williams, R.J. (Eds.), Fire in the Tropical Savannas: The Kapalga Experiment (pp. 79-106). New York, USA: Springer-Verlag.

Journal articles

  1. Townsend, S.A., Douglas, M. M., and Setterfield, S.A. (2004) Catchment cover and stream water quality in an Australian tropical savanna:  rapid recovery after a change to a less intense fire regime.  Ecological Management and Restoration, 5 (2), pp147
  2. Rossiter, N.A., Setterfield, S.A., Douglas, M.M. and Hutley, L. B. (2003). Testing the grass-fire cycle: alien invasion in the tropical savannas of northern Australia. Biodiversity and Distribution, 9(3), 169-176.
  3. Setterfield, S. A. (2002). Seedling establishment in an Australian tropical savanna: effects of seed supply, soil disturbance and fire. Journal of Applied Ecology, 39 (6), pp 949-959.
  4. Setterfield, S. A., Cook, G., Williams, R. J. and Duff, G. (Submitted). The Rehabilitation of Gravel Pits in Kakadu National Park, Northern Australia. Restoration Ecology.
  5. Setterfield, S. A. (Submitted). Seed production of the tropical savanna shrub Acacia oncinocarpa Benth. in northern Australia: effects of fire and pre-dispersal predation. Journal of Tropical Ecology.
  6. Setterfield, S. A. (1997). The impact of experimental fire regimes on seed production in two tropical eucalypt species in northern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology, 22, pp 279 - 287.
  7. Setterfield, S. A. and Williams, R. (1996). Annual variation in flowering and seed production of Eucalyptus miniata and E. tetrodonta in a tropical savanna, northern Australia. Australia Journal of Botany, 44, pp 107-122.
  8. Cook, G. D., Setterfield, S. A. and Maddison, J. P. (1996). Shrub invasion of a tropical wetland: Implications for weed managment. Ecological Applications, 6 (2), pp 531-537.
  9. Cook, G. D. and Setterfield, S. A. (1996). State-and-transition modelling and the management of environmental weeds of wetlands. Proceedings of the Wetland Management in the Wet-Dry Tropics Workshop. ERISS, Jabiru.
  10. Setterfield, S. A., Cook, G., Williams, R. and Duff, G. (1995). Rehabilitation of gravel pits in tropical savannas of the Northern Territory. Proceedings of the International Symposium on The Future of Tropical Savannas. CSIRO Press, Melbourne.

Conference papers

  1. Douglas, M.M., Setterfield, S.A., Rossiter, N., Barratt, J. and Hutley, L.B.  (2004) Effects of mission grass (Pennisetum polystachion (L.) Schult.) invasion on fuel loads and nitrogen availability in a northern Australia tropical savanna.14th Australian Weeds Conference, September 2004, Sydney, NSW Australia
  2. Rossiter, N., Setterfield, S., Douglas, M., Hutley, L., and Cook, G. (2004) Exotic grass invasion in the tropical savannas of northern Australia:  Ecosystem consequences. 14th Australian Weeds Conference, September 2004, Sydney, Australia
  3. Setterfield, S.A., Bellairs, S., Douglas, M.M. (2004) Seed bank dynamics of two exotic grass species in Australia's northern savanna.14th Australian Weeds Conference, September 2004, Sydney

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