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• Biography/ Background

  Tshewang Dorji (Dorji) is a Research Officer at the 成人大片, Waite Campus. With a B.Sc in Forestry (Hons) from India and an M.Sc in Natural Environmental Studies from the University of Tokyo, Japan, Dorji has a solid foundation in environmental science. He completed his PhD in plant ecology and grazing at the 成人大片, South Australia earning the Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence. 

  Dorji's career began as a Forestry Officer with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan Government, where he led key projects in forestry, wildlife, ecological restoration, ecosystem services and climate change. In Australia, he served as a Biosecurity Researcher with South Australia's Biosecurity division, where he focussed on conserving native plants and animals from threatening processes like invasive species and climate change.

  Since 2021, Dorji has been working as a Research Officer with the Future Drought Fund's Drought Resilient Soils and Landscapes Project at the 成人大片 focussing on improving pasture cultivars and management practices towards building climate resilience in mixed farms across South Australia. 

• Publications

   ·     Dorji T, Jayasingha Ellakkala Appuhamilage RMJ, Bird PL, Huang N, O'Connor TW, Patel KK, Strive T, Taggart PL., (2023). Optimising the Delivery of RHDV to Rabbits for Biocontrol: An Experimental Evaluation of Two Novel Methods of Virus Delivery. Viruses. 2023 Aug 25;15(9):1814. doi: 10.3390/v15091814. PMID: 37766220; PMCID: PMC10536075.

  ·      Dorji, T., Facelli, J.M., Norbu, T., Delean, S., Brookes, J.D., (2020). Tree shelters facilitate brown oak seedling survival and establishment in a grazing dominant forest of Bhutan, Eastern Himalaya. Restoration Ecology 28, 1145-1157.

  ·         Dorji, T., Brookes, J., Facelli, J., Sears, R., Norbu, T., Dorji, K., Chhetri, Y., Baral, H., (2019). Socio-Cultural Values of Ecosystem Services from Oak Forests in the Eastern Himalaya. Sustainability 11, 2250.

  ·         Sears, R., Choden, K., Dorji, T., Dukpa, D., Phuntsho, S., Rai, P., Wangchuk, J., Baral, H., (2018). Bhutan’s Forests through the Framework of Ecosystem Services: Rapid Assessment in Three Forest Types. Forests 9, 675.

  ·         Baral, H., Jaung, W., Bhatta, L.D., Phuntsho, S., Sharma, S., Paudyal, K., Zarandian, A., Sears, R., Sharma, R., Dorji, T., Artati, Y., (2017). Approaches and tools for assessing mountain forest ecosystem services. In, Working paper. CIFOR, Indonesia.

  ·        Wangdi, N., Om, Kuenzang., Thinley, C., Dukpa, D., Dorji, T., Darabant, A., Chhetri, P., Ahmed, I., Staudhammer, C., Jandl, R., Schindlbacher A., Hietz, P., Katzensteiner,  K., Godbold, D., Gratzer, G. (2017). Climate Change in Remote Mountain Regions: A Throughfall-Exclusion Experiment to Simulate Monsoon Failure in the Himalayas. Mountain Research and Development 37 (3):294-309.

  ·         Dorji, T., Lama, M.K., Namgyel, D. (2015). Breaking the stone: Overcoming seed dormancy and seedling emergence of the rare Ziziphus budhensis in Bhutan Himalayas.  In.  Jour. of Pl. Sci., 4(3):47-54.

  ·         Dorji, T., Gyaltshen, D., Ghemiray, D.K., Wangda, P., Fukuda, K. (2015). . Indian Forester,141 (3):324-332.

  ·         Covey, k., Carroll, C. J.W., Duguid., Dorji, K., Dorji, T., Tashi, S., Wangdi, T., Ashton, M. (2014). Developmental dynamics following selective logging of an evergreen oak forest in the Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan: Structure, composition, and spatial pattern. Forest Ecology & Management. 336(2015):163-167.

   

   

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 27 Aug 2024

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