The University of Western Australia

Mr Tim Morald

Research Officer
School of Plant Biology

Contact details

Address

School of Plant Biology
The University of Western Australia (M090)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 4637

Fax

6488 7461

Email

tim.morald@uwa.edu.au

Biography

In 1996 after completion of environmental management degree at Edith Cowan University I joined Alcoa’s mine & bauxite residue rehabilitation research group. Whilst at Alcoa I conducted routine botanical monitoring and researched a range of restoration related topics including; tree growth in restored sites, protecting planted seedlings from herbivore grazing, direct seeding of bauxite residue sand and how fire affects jarrah forest seed banks.
In 2006 I joined the Centre for Land Rehabilitation within Soil Science at UWA as part of a research team investigating the effects of soil fertility on botanical diversity of jarrah forest (ARC linkage project). This included setting up and maintaining glasshouse experiments using jarrah forest plant species. This work was my introduction to mycorrhiza and soil biology.
In 2010 I joined the Ecosystem Restoration and Intervention Ecology research group (ERIE) within Plant Biology at UWA. The main focus of my work in this group has been the setting up of a large field experiment at UWA’s Ridgefield farm and baseline soil biological measurements for this experiment.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Koch, J.M., Ruschmann, A.M., and Morald, T.K. (2010). Effect of time since burn on soil seedbanks in the jarrah forest of Western Australia. Australian Journal of Botany Vol. 57, No. 8, pp 647-660.

Norman, M.A., Koch, J.M., Grant, C.D., Morald, T.K., and Ward, S.C. (2006). Vegetation succession after bauxite mining in Western Australia. Restoration Ecology Vol. 14, No. 2, pp 278-288.

Eastham, J., Morald, T., and Aylmore, P. (2006). Effective nutrient sources for plant growth on bauxite residue: I comparing organic and inorganic fertilizers. Water, Air and Soil Pollution Vol. 176, No. 1-4, pp 5-19.

Eastham, J., and Morald, T. (2006). Effective nutrient sources for plant growth on bauxite residue: II evaluating the response to inorganic fertilizers. Water, Air and Soil Pollution Vol. 171, No. 1-4, pp 315-331.


CONFERENCE PAPERS

Standish, R.J., Morald, T.K., Koch, J.M., Hobbs, R.J and Tibbett, M (2008). Restoring Jarrah Forest after Bauxite Mining in Western Australia – The Effect of Fertilizer on Floristic Diversity and Composition. Mine Closure 2008 – A.B. Fourie, M. Tibbett, I.M. Weiersbye, P.J. Dye (eds), pp 717-725.

Eastham, J., Morald, T., Lockley, I and Cooling, D (2004). The water balance of vegetation on bauxite residue storage areas. ACMER Workshop on design and revegetation of surface covers for mine wastes. October 2004, Perth, Western Australia.

Morald, T., Eastham, J and Mullins, G (2002). Increasing germination and early growth of native plants on bauxite residue sand. Future Soils (ASSSI) Conference Proceedings, Perth, Western Australia 118-119.

Eastham, J and Morald, T (2002). Improving root penetration and vegetation growth on bauxite residue embankments. Futuresoils (ASSSI) Conference Proceedings, Perth. 62-63.

Eastham, J., Morald, T., Lockley, I and Cooling, D (2002). Manipulating the water balance of vegetation on bauxite residue storage areas. Proceedings of the 6th International Alumina Quality Workshop, Brisbane. 156-161.

Research profile

Research profile and publications