J B Kirkpatrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1795313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J B Kirkpatrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | J B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirkpatrick |
| SIGNATURE | KIRKPATRICK J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2763-2692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Covid-19 in Australia: Systems resilience and outcome fairness
We apply a relational multiscalar model of the sustainability of social organisation to the management of COVID-19 in Australia to analyse systems resilience and outcome fairness. Our model encompasses the structures, processes, functions, and contents of social organisation across micro, meso, and macro scales. We developed four data sets linked to COVID-19 and analysed these as variables in our model: (1) letters to the editor in public newspap…
Justice for Country: Does Tasmania Enable Flourishing in Its Protected Areas
Protected areas (PAs) have been subject to sustained critique in the social, political, and geographical sciences for human conflicts and injustices arising from their creation and management. Fortress-style PAs have enabled and perpetuated land theft from Indigenous peoples and disrupted Indigenous relationships to their lands, territories, and resources in the name of conservation, even while encouraging the commodification of these places by f…
Emotional geographies of roadkill: Stained experiences of tourism in Tasmania
Globally, road fatalities affect wildlife populations and ecosystems, leading to ecological imbalances, economic losses, and safety hazards for both animals and humans. However, the emotional toll on humans is less well understood. This research explores tourists' responses to roadkill, using emotional geography as the overarching framework, and focusing on the island state of Tasmania in Australia. Tasmania is known for its diverse and abundant …
Informal camping on the margin of wild country: Early indicators of degradation and potential for some positive nature conservation outcomes
Wild areas provide a wide array of recreational opportunities in nature, including informal camping. We examined the potential for land degradation associated with informal campsites accessible by vehicle on the margins of the wild country on the Central Plateau of Tasmania, where alpine and sub‐alpine ecosystems with numerous glacial and periglacial wetlands sit within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. There were no integrated analys…
A lesson from Bass Strait on connectivity conservation
Isolation effects on the distributions of plant species in fragmented forests appear to be weak over tens to hundreds of years and strong over geological eras. The 250 km wide, 6.5 millennia old Bass Strait, and other millennium-scale disjunctions in the range of Eucalyptus regnans forests, were used to determine the effects of intermediate periods of isolation on plant species occurrence and composition. Three of six floristic communities were f…
A long entanglement with nature: Flyfishers in the wild
Large wild areas are important for both nature conservation and nature-based recreation. Information on the reciprocal relationships between recreators and the environments in which they recreate can help both conservation and recreation management. We considered motivations, perceptions, environmental concerns, and social concerns among flyfishers who recreate within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area on the Central Plateau of Tasmania…
Risk and the Arborist in the Remaking of the Australian Urban Forest
The emerging profession of arboriculture has influenced Australian urban landscapes over the past decade. Arborists manage the urban forest as a core component of urban sustainability. We analyse qualitative interviews with 53 professionals involved in tree management in six eastern Australian cities to determine the ways in which a concern with risk management has shaped both the urban forest and the professional status and role of arborists. We…
Sinners, scapegoats or fashion victims? Understanding the deaths of trees in the green city
Determining the Accuracy of Historical Landscape Paintings
Historical landscape paintings are widely used to reconstruct past environments. However, artists did not necessarily fully depict reality, many exercising license to relocate and remould features. This paper applies photogrammetric techniques to the problem of determining the accuracy of artistic depictions of landscapes. Four 19th century paintings of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia by different artists were used to test the methods. The artists va…
The Political Ecology of Soil and Species Conservation in a 'Big Australia
Is the 'Big Australia' vision of a populous, prosperous Australian nation in 2050 compatible with the maintenance of productive soils and/or the maintenance of native species? This paper considers the implications of current tendencies in soil and species conservation and suggests some ways to avoid the more negative of them. Current land use in Australia is mining the soils on slopes. It seems likely that deposits of rock phosphate will be close…
Cross‐Disciplinarity in Australian Geography Presidential Address to the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Conference, Melbourne, July 2007 1
The disciplinary space that geographers conceive to be theirs has all been previously possessed, or latterly colonised, by other disciplines. Geographers defend their existence on the basis of their oft‐asserted, but never tested, cross‐disciplinarity. The journals in which refereed papers were published by members of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) and the papers in Australian Geographical Studies were analysed for the period 1998–…
Yalanji-Warranga Kaban. Yalanji People of the Rainforest Fire Management Book
Isle of Fire - the Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. by Christian A. Kull. Book review
Attached to the Ground - Award of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Griffith Taylor Medal: John Holmes
Isle of Fire - the Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar - Christian A. Kull
Gardens and the Bush: Gardeners’ Attitudes, Garden Types and Invasives
Garden plants that invade native vegetation can be a threat to native ecosystems. The species composition of gardens near the bush in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is shown to relate to environmental variation and the attitudes of gardeners to their recreation, to native plants and to the bush. Four types of gardens are discriminated: the species‐poor shrub garden; the local native garden; the woodland garden; and the gardenesque. A group of garden…
Peter Scott 1922–2002
Effects of human trampling on the sub-Antarctic vegetation of Macquarie Island
The effects of trampling on six types of vegetation and their underlying soils were investigated on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. One hundred and fifty foot-passes per year for at least the past 10 years have occurred on a typical 6-km stretch of walking track on the island's upland plateau. Trampling favours vascular plants including exotics, especially Poa annua , while bryophytes and lichens are more common in undisturbed vegetation. The abu…
The Geography and Politics of Species Endangerment in Australia
Australia has the worst rate of recent plant and animal species extinction of any continent or country of its size, and a large number of surviving native species are also threatened with extinction Extinctions and endangerment are concentrated in those parts of the country where the transformation of native ecosystems into cultural ecosystems has been most complete. However, a considerable number of species have become extinct, or are now threat…
Vegetation Map of Tasmania (Scale 1: (500,000)
Biogeography
Heritage and development in Tasmania
The geological, biological, geomorphological and human history of Tasmania makes it highly varied scenically, very different from the mainland and scientifically fascinating. The artefacts of early European settlers survived as the Tasmanian economy stagnated. Therefore Tasmania contains most of the standing evidence of the early stages of the brief recorded history of Australia. These remnants are of high heritage significance. Australia possess…
Tasmanian Alpine Biogeography and Ecology and Interpretations of the Past
Achievements, Concepts and Conflicts in Australian Small‐Scale Vegetation Mapping
A large proportion of Australia has had its vegetation mapped at scales between 1:200 000 and 1:2 000 000 in the period 1970 to 1985. Mappers can be divided into those using a deductive approach and those using an inductive approach, these two approaches ideally being complementary rather than antagonistic. Machine mapping from satellite digital reflectance data is possible, but not economically sound unless used for monitoring. Conflicts between…
Impact of trampling on natural ecosystems in the cradle mountain‐lake St Clair National Park
Approximately 8,000 walkers used the Cradle Mountain‐Lake St Clair National Park in 1979/80. They and their predecessors had created a maze of tracks, 29 per cent of which were in a poor condition. Badly damaged tracks are concentrated at high altitude, and in ill‐drained areas, mostly where usage exceeds 1,500 people per year. Alpine vegetation recovers from trampling damage at a much slower rate than the treeless vegetation at lower altitude. T…
Eucalypt invasion in Southern California
Eucalypts have been a part of the southern California landscape for at least 120 years, yet their spread from cultivation has been extremely slow. This lack of invasionary prowess is not primarily due to regeneration difficulties, although a seedbed free from competition is necessary for successful establishment. The rate of spread of the eucalypts from cultivation has been largely restricted by limited dispersal ability combined with the disjunc…
Sinners, scapegoats or fashion victims? Understanding the deaths of trees in the green city
Gardens and the Bush: Gardeners’ Attitudes, Garden Types and Invasives
Garden plants that invade native vegetation can be a threat to native ecosystems. The species composition of gardens near the bush in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is shown to relate to environmental variation and the attitudes of gardeners to their recreation, to native plants and to the bush. Four types of gardens are discriminated: the species‐poor shrub garden; the local native garden; the woodland garden; and the gardenesque. A group of garden…
The Political Ecology of Soil and Species Conservation in a 'Big Australia
Is the 'Big Australia' vision of a populous, prosperous Australian nation in 2050 compatible with the maintenance of productive soils and/or the maintenance of native species? This paper considers the implications of current tendencies in soil and species conservation and suggests some ways to avoid the more negative of them. Current land use in Australia is mining the soils on slopes. It seems likely that deposits of rock phosphate will be close…
Vegetation change in a suburban coastal reserve
Enclaves of natural vegetation in suburbia have an importance far beyond their area. \n \nThe sprawling cities of materialistic Australia are in fact surprisingly well endowed with the lost values of rural beauty and natural scene. Sydney has its large national parks which provide an impediment to northern and southern suburban expansion as well as a large number of reserves in at least a near natural state around the margins of its magnificent h…
Plant invasion and extinction in a suburban coastal reserve
In recent years there has been increasing concern with the problems of conservation of native biotic communities. While in most parts of Australia the area of land devoted to nature conservation has been increasing rapidly, little is known about such basic questions as the minimum area needed to maintain native communities in at least part of a reserve, or even the effects of intensive land use in surrounding areas on directly unmodified native v…
A lesson from Bass Strait on connectivity conservation
Isolation effects on the distributions of plant species in fragmented forests appear to be weak over tens to hundreds of years and strong over geological eras. The 250 km wide, 6.5 millennia old Bass Strait, and other millennium-scale disjunctions in the range of Eucalyptus regnans forests, were used to determine the effects of intermediate periods of isolation on plant species occurrence and composition. Three of six floristic communities were f…
Effects of human trampling on the sub-Antarctic vegetation of Macquarie Island
The effects of trampling on six types of vegetation and their underlying soils were investigated on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. One hundred and fifty foot-passes per year for at least the past 10 years have occurred on a typical 6-km stretch of walking track on the island's upland plateau. Trampling favours vascular plants including exotics, especially Poa annua , while bryophytes and lichens are more common in undisturbed vegetation. The abu…
Impact of trampling on natural ecosystems in the cradle mountain‐lake St Clair National Park
Approximately 8,000 walkers used the Cradle Mountain‐Lake St Clair National Park in 1979/80. They and their predecessors had created a maze of tracks, 29 per cent of which were in a poor condition. Badly damaged tracks are concentrated at high altitude, and in ill‐drained areas, mostly where usage exceeds 1,500 people per year. Alpine vegetation recovers from trampling damage at a much slower rate than the treeless vegetation at lower altitude. T…
Natural distribution of Eucalyptus Globulus Labill
The natural distribution of Eucalyptus globulus is mapped. The altitudinal, climatic, lithologic and edaphic range of the species, and its patterns of association with other eucalypt species are described. The factors which could limit the range of E. globulus are discussed, and the many disjunctions found in the distribution of the species are tentatively explained in terms of past climatic change and possible migration corridors
Covid-19 in Australia: Systems resilience and outcome fairness
We apply a relational multiscalar model of the sustainability of social organisation to the management of COVID-19 in Australia to analyse systems resilience and outcome fairness. Our model encompasses the structures, processes, functions, and contents of social organisation across micro, meso, and macro scales. We developed four data sets linked to COVID-19 and analysed these as variables in our model: (1) letters to the editor in public newspap…
Risk and the Arborist in the Remaking of the Australian Urban Forest
The emerging profession of arboriculture has influenced Australian urban landscapes over the past decade. Arborists manage the urban forest as a core component of urban sustainability. We analyse qualitative interviews with 53 professionals involved in tree management in six eastern Australian cities to determine the ways in which a concern with risk management has shaped both the urban forest and the professional status and role of arborists. We…
Determining the Accuracy of Historical Landscape Paintings
Historical landscape paintings are widely used to reconstruct past environments. However, artists did not necessarily fully depict reality, many exercising license to relocate and remould features. This paper applies photogrammetric techniques to the problem of determining the accuracy of artistic depictions of landscapes. Four 19th century paintings of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia by different artists were used to test the methods. The artists va…
Cross‐Disciplinarity in Australian Geography Presidential Address to the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Conference, Melbourne, July 2007 1
The disciplinary space that geographers conceive to be theirs has all been previously possessed, or latterly colonised, by other disciplines. Geographers defend their existence on the basis of their oft‐asserted, but never tested, cross‐disciplinarity. The journals in which refereed papers were published by members of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) and the papers in Australian Geographical Studies were analysed for the period 1998–…
The Geography and Politics of Species Endangerment in Australia
Australia has the worst rate of recent plant and animal species extinction of any continent or country of its size, and a large number of surviving native species are also threatened with extinction Extinctions and endangerment are concentrated in those parts of the country where the transformation of native ecosystems into cultural ecosystems has been most complete. However, a considerable number of species have become extinct, or are now threat…
Biogeography
Achievements, Concepts and Conflicts in Australian Small‐Scale Vegetation Mapping
A large proportion of Australia has had its vegetation mapped at scales between 1:200 000 and 1:2 000 000 in the period 1970 to 1985. Mappers can be divided into those using a deductive approach and those using an inductive approach, these two approaches ideally being complementary rather than antagonistic. Machine mapping from satellite digital reflectance data is possible, but not economically sound unless used for monitoring. Conflicts between…
Justice for Country: Does Tasmania Enable Flourishing in Its Protected Areas
Protected areas (PAs) have been subject to sustained critique in the social, political, and geographical sciences for human conflicts and injustices arising from their creation and management. Fortress-style PAs have enabled and perpetuated land theft from Indigenous peoples and disrupted Indigenous relationships to their lands, territories, and resources in the name of conservation, even while encouraging the commodification of these places by f…
Emotional geographies of roadkill: Stained experiences of tourism in Tasmania
Globally, road fatalities affect wildlife populations and ecosystems, leading to ecological imbalances, economic losses, and safety hazards for both animals and humans. However, the emotional toll on humans is less well understood. This research explores tourists' responses to roadkill, using emotional geography as the overarching framework, and focusing on the island state of Tasmania in Australia. Tasmania is known for its diverse and abundant …
A long entanglement with nature: Flyfishers in the wild
Large wild areas are important for both nature conservation and nature-based recreation. Information on the reciprocal relationships between recreators and the environments in which they recreate can help both conservation and recreation management. We considered motivations, perceptions, environmental concerns, and social concerns among flyfishers who recreate within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area on the Central Plateau of Tasmania…
Attached to the Ground - Award of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Griffith Taylor Medal: John Holmes
Peter Scott 1922–2002
Heritage and development in Tasmania
The geological, biological, geomorphological and human history of Tasmania makes it highly varied scenically, very different from the mainland and scientifically fascinating. The artefacts of early European settlers survived as the Tasmanian economy stagnated. Therefore Tasmania contains most of the standing evidence of the early stages of the brief recorded history of Australia. These remnants are of high heritage significance. Australia possess…
Eucalypt invasion in Southern California
Eucalypts have been a part of the southern California landscape for at least 120 years, yet their spread from cultivation has been extremely slow. This lack of invasionary prowess is not primarily due to regeneration difficulties, although a seedbed free from competition is necessary for successful establishment. The rate of spread of the eucalypts from cultivation has been largely restricted by limited dispersal ability combined with the disjunc…
Little Ship Wanderings
Plant invasion and extinction in a suburban coastal reserve
In recent years there has been increasing concern with the problems of conservation of native biotic communities. While in most parts of Australia the area of land devoted to nature conservation has been increasing rapidly, little is known about such basic questions as the minimum area needed to maintain native communities in at least part of a reserve, or even the effects of intensive land use in surrounding areas on directly unmodified native v…
Vegetation change in a suburban coastal reserve
Enclaves of natural vegetation in suburbia have an importance far beyond their area. \n \nThe sprawling cities of materialistic Australia are in fact surprisingly well endowed with the lost values of rural beauty and natural scene. Sydney has its large national parks which provide an impediment to northern and southern suburban expansion as well as a large number of reserves in at least a near natural state around the margins of its magnificent h…
Natural distribution of Eucalyptus Globulus Labill
The natural distribution of Eucalyptus globulus is mapped. The altitudinal, climatic, lithologic and edaphic range of the species, and its patterns of association with other eucalypt species are described. The factors which could limit the range of E. globulus are discussed, and the many disjunctions found in the distribution of the species are tentatively explained in terms of past climatic change and possible migration corridors
Eucalypt invasion in Southern California
Eucalypts have been a part of the southern California landscape for at least 120 years, yet their spread from cultivation has been extremely slow. This lack of invasionary prowess is not primarily due to regeneration difficulties, although a seedbed free from competition is necessary for successful establishment. The rate of spread of the eucalypts from cultivation has been largely restricted by limited dispersal ability combined with the disjunc…
Tasmanian Alpine Biogeography and Ecology and Interpretations of the Past
Achievements, Concepts and Conflicts in Australian Small‐Scale Vegetation Mapping
A large proportion of Australia has had its vegetation mapped at scales between 1:200 000 and 1:2 000 000 in the period 1970 to 1985. Mappers can be divided into those using a deductive approach and those using an inductive approach, these two approaches ideally being complementary rather than antagonistic. Machine mapping from satellite digital reflectance data is possible, but not economically sound unless used for monitoring. Conflicts between…
Impact of trampling on natural ecosystems in the cradle mountain‐lake St Clair National Park
Approximately 8,000 walkers used the Cradle Mountain‐Lake St Clair National Park in 1979/80. They and their predecessors had created a maze of tracks, 29 per cent of which were in a poor condition. Badly damaged tracks are concentrated at high altitude, and in ill‐drained areas, mostly where usage exceeds 1,500 people per year. Alpine vegetation recovers from trampling damage at a much slower rate than the treeless vegetation at lower altitude. T…
Vegetation Map of Tasmania (Scale 1: (500,000)
Biogeography
Heritage and development in Tasmania
The geological, biological, geomorphological and human history of Tasmania makes it highly varied scenically, very different from the mainland and scientifically fascinating. The artefacts of early European settlers survived as the Tasmanian economy stagnated. Therefore Tasmania contains most of the standing evidence of the early stages of the brief recorded history of Australia. These remnants are of high heritage significance. Australia possess…
The Geography and Politics of Species Endangerment in Australia
Australia has the worst rate of recent plant and animal species extinction of any continent or country of its size, and a large number of surviving native species are also threatened with extinction Extinctions and endangerment are concentrated in those parts of the country where the transformation of native ecosystems into cultural ecosystems has been most complete. However, a considerable number of species have become extinct, or are now threat…
Effects of human trampling on the sub-Antarctic vegetation of Macquarie Island
The effects of trampling on six types of vegetation and their underlying soils were investigated on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. One hundred and fifty foot-passes per year for at least the past 10 years have occurred on a typical 6-km stretch of walking track on the island's upland plateau. Trampling favours vascular plants including exotics, especially Poa annua , while bryophytes and lichens are more common in undisturbed vegetation. The abu…
Peter Scott 1922–2002
Gardens and the Bush: Gardeners’ Attitudes, Garden Types and Invasives
Garden plants that invade native vegetation can be a threat to native ecosystems. The species composition of gardens near the bush in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia is shown to relate to environmental variation and the attitudes of gardeners to their recreation, to native plants and to the bush. Four types of gardens are discriminated: the species‐poor shrub garden; the local native garden; the woodland garden; and the gardenesque. A group of garden…
Yalanji-Warranga Kaban. Yalanji People of the Rainforest Fire Management Book
Isle of Fire - the Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar. by Christian A. Kull. Book review
Attached to the Ground - Award of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Griffith Taylor Medal: John Holmes
Isle of Fire - the Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar - Christian A. Kull
Cross‐Disciplinarity in Australian Geography Presidential Address to the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Conference, Melbourne, July 2007 1
The disciplinary space that geographers conceive to be theirs has all been previously possessed, or latterly colonised, by other disciplines. Geographers defend their existence on the basis of their oft‐asserted, but never tested, cross‐disciplinarity. The journals in which refereed papers were published by members of the Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) and the papers in Australian Geographical Studies were analysed for the period 1998–…
The Political Ecology of Soil and Species Conservation in a 'Big Australia
Is the 'Big Australia' vision of a populous, prosperous Australian nation in 2050 compatible with the maintenance of productive soils and/or the maintenance of native species? This paper considers the implications of current tendencies in soil and species conservation and suggests some ways to avoid the more negative of them. Current land use in Australia is mining the soils on slopes. It seems likely that deposits of rock phosphate will be close…
Sinners, scapegoats or fashion victims? Understanding the deaths of trees in the green city
Determining the Accuracy of Historical Landscape Paintings
Historical landscape paintings are widely used to reconstruct past environments. However, artists did not necessarily fully depict reality, many exercising license to relocate and remould features. This paper applies photogrammetric techniques to the problem of determining the accuracy of artistic depictions of landscapes. Four 19th century paintings of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia by different artists were used to test the methods. The artists va…
Risk and the Arborist in the Remaking of the Australian Urban Forest
The emerging profession of arboriculture has influenced Australian urban landscapes over the past decade. Arborists manage the urban forest as a core component of urban sustainability. We analyse qualitative interviews with 53 professionals involved in tree management in six eastern Australian cities to determine the ways in which a concern with risk management has shaped both the urban forest and the professional status and role of arborists. We…
Informal camping on the margin of wild country: Early indicators of degradation and potential for some positive nature conservation outcomes
Wild areas provide a wide array of recreational opportunities in nature, including informal camping. We examined the potential for land degradation associated with informal campsites accessible by vehicle on the margins of the wild country on the Central Plateau of Tasmania, where alpine and sub‐alpine ecosystems with numerous glacial and periglacial wetlands sit within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. There were no integrated analys…
A lesson from Bass Strait on connectivity conservation
Isolation effects on the distributions of plant species in fragmented forests appear to be weak over tens to hundreds of years and strong over geological eras. The 250 km wide, 6.5 millennia old Bass Strait, and other millennium-scale disjunctions in the range of Eucalyptus regnans forests, were used to determine the effects of intermediate periods of isolation on plant species occurrence and composition. Three of six floristic communities were f…
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