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Investigating Sludge drying bay, Werribee

Dr Scott Laidlaw Email: wlaidlaw@unimelb.edu.au

Name:Dr Scott Laidlaw Position: Research Fellow Postal: School of Botany University of Melbourne VIC 3010 Australia

Natural and industrial disturbance ecology, Disturbance abatement ecology, Restoration Ecology, Ecosystem nutrient cycling, Mammal/Plant/Pathogen Interaction

Collaborative research projects with industry (Alcoa World Alumina Australia/Portland Aluminium) and government organizations (Parks Victoria/ DSE/ Barwon Water/ West Coast Water/ Melbourne)

Phytoremediation
-Phytoremediation of biosolids and effluent contaminated land at a the Western Treatment Plant, Werribee

Industrial i mpacts on ecosystem processes
· Natural and industrial sources of acidification in natural ecosystems surrounding a coal-fired power station
· Sulphate adsorption in duplex soils

Utilisation of waste water in agroforestry
· Growth of Blue Gums (Eucalyptus globulus) irrigated with domestic effluent.

Minesite rehabilitation
· Growth of Blue Gums (Eucalyptus globulus) in an amended coalmine overburden.
· Growth of heathland shrubs in an amended coalmine overburden.

· Research Fellow, School of Botany, University of Melbourne
· Associate Lecturer, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Deakin University

Publications

Laidlaw, W. S. and Wilson, B. A. (2003)
"Floristic and structural characteristics of a coastal heathland exhibiting symptoms of Phytophthora cinnamomi infestation in the eastern Otway Ranges, Victoria".
Australian Journal of Botany, 51:,283-293

Laidlaw, W. S., Hutchings, S. and Newell, G. R. (1996).
"Home range and movement patterns of Sminthopsis leucopus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in coastal dry heathland, Anglesea, Victoria". Australian Mammalogy 19: 1-9..

Laidlaw, W. S. and Wilson, B. A. (1996)
"The home range and habitat utilisation by Cercartetus nanus (Marsupialia: Burramyidae) in coastal heathland, Anglesea, Victoria". Australian Mammalogy 19: 63-68.

Wilson, B.A., Newell, G., Laidlaw, W.S. and Friend, G., (1994).
"Impact of plant disease on animal ecology". Symposium on Plant Diseases in Ecosystems: threats and impacts in south-western Australia, The Royal Society of Western Australia and the Ecological Society of Australia, Murdoch University, April 1994.

Wilson, B. A., Robertson, D., Moloney, D. J., Newell, G. R. and Laidlaw, W. S. (1990).
"Factors Affecting Small Mammal Distribution and Abundance in the Eastern Otway Ranges, Victoria". Two Hundred Years of exploitation, utilisation and degradation. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia. 16: 379-396.

Wilson, B. A. and Laidlaw, W. S. (1990).
"Small mammals and habitat disturbance in the eastern Otway Ranges". In: The Otways, Flora, Fauna, Conservation and Management, Proceedings of Conference, Deakin University, July 1990.

Laidlaw, W. S. and Wilson, B. A. (1989).
"Distribution and Habitat Preferences of Small Mammals in the Eastern Section of the Angahook-Lorne State Park". Victorian Nat. 106(6):224-236.