Professor Peter Erskine
Professor

Peter Erskine

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Availability

Professor Peter Erskine is:
Not available for supervision

Fields of research

Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences Environmental Sciences Forestry sciences

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland

Research interests

  • Rehabilitation of degraded land

    Leading multi-disciplinary teams designing monitoring programs, mine rehabilitation strategies, and landscape restoration in Australia, south-east Asia, and Africa.

  • Spatial ecology

  • Rainforest restoration

  • Metallophyte discovery and utilisation

Search Professor Peter Erskine’s works on UQ eSpace

261 works between 1995 and 2025
All (261) Journal Article (145) Book Chapter (16) Conference Publication (42) Book (1) Other Outputs (57)

81 - 100 of 261 works

2020

Journal Article

Remote sensing of mine site rehabilitation for ecological outcomes: a global systematic review

McKenna, Phillip B., Lechner, Alex M., Phinn, Stuart and Erskine, Peter D. (2020). Remote sensing of mine site rehabilitation for ecological outcomes: a global systematic review. Remote Sensing, 12 (21) 3535, 3535-32. doi: 10.3390/rs12213535

Remote sensing of mine site rehabilitation for ecological outcomes: a global systematic review

2020

Journal Article

Soil chemistry, elemental profiles and elemental distribution in nickel hyperaccumulator species from New Caledonia

Gei, Vidiro, Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D., Isnard, Sandrine, Fogliani, Bruno, Montargès-Pelletier, Emmanuelle, Jaffré, Tanguy, Spiers, Kathryn M., Garrevoet, Jan and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Soil chemistry, elemental profiles and elemental distribution in nickel hyperaccumulator species from New Caledonia. Plant and Soil, 457 (1-2), 293-320. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04714-x

Soil chemistry, elemental profiles and elemental distribution in nickel hyperaccumulator species from New Caledonia

2020

Other Outputs

Strategic issues and opportunities for the acquisition of thermal coal mining assets for managed closure

Franks, Daniel, Bainton, Nick, Head, Brian, Côte, Claire, Erskine, Peter, Fidelman, Pedro, Kemp, Deanna and Flomenhoft, Gary (2020). Strategic issues and opportunities for the acquisition of thermal coal mining assets for managed closure. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

Strategic issues and opportunities for the acquisition of thermal coal mining assets for managed closure

2020

Journal Article

The biogeochemistry of copper metallophytes in the Roseby Corridor (North-West Queensland, Australia)

Tang, Roger H., Erskine, Peter D., Lilly, Richard and van der Ent, Antony (2020). The biogeochemistry of copper metallophytes in the Roseby Corridor (North-West Queensland, Australia). Chemoecology, 31 (1), 19-30. doi: 10.1007/s00049-020-00325-1

The biogeochemistry of copper metallophytes in the Roseby Corridor (North-West Queensland, Australia)

2020

Conference Publication

The recovery potential of vegetation at rehabilitated mine sites in Queensland

McKenna, Phillip, Erskine, Peter, Glenn, Vanessa, Doley, David, Ufer, Natasha and Nath, Vinod (2020). The recovery potential of vegetation at rehabilitated mine sites in Queensland. Federation University Fire Workshop, Online Webinar, 3 August 2020. Brisbane, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland.

The recovery potential of vegetation at rehabilitated mine sites in Queensland

2020

Journal Article

Letter to the editor of Chemosphere regarding Xu et al. (2020)

Reeves, Roger D., Baker, Alan J.M., Jaffré, Tanguy, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Letter to the editor of Chemosphere regarding Xu et al. (2020). Chemosphere, 260 128050, 128050. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.128050

Letter to the editor of Chemosphere regarding Xu et al. (2020)

2020

Journal Article

Cobalt hyperaccumulation in Rinorea cf. bengalensis (Violaceae) from Sabah: accumulation potential and tissue and cellular-level distribution of cobalt

Paul, Adrian L. D. , Nkrumah, Philip Nti , Echevarria, Guillaume , Erskine, Peter D. , Chaney, Rufus L. , Spiers, Kathryn M. , Sumail, Sukaibin and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Cobalt hyperaccumulation in Rinorea cf. bengalensis (Violaceae) from Sabah: accumulation potential and tissue and cellular-level distribution of cobalt. Plant and Soil, 455 (1-2), 289-303. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04629-7

Cobalt hyperaccumulation in Rinorea cf. bengalensis (Violaceae) from Sabah: accumulation potential and tissue and cellular-level distribution of cobalt

2020

Journal Article

Frequency distribution of foliar nickel is bimodal in the ultramafic flora of Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia)

van der Ent, Antony, Echevarria, Guillaume, Nkrumah, Philip Nti and Erskine, Peter D. (2020). Frequency distribution of foliar nickel is bimodal in the ultramafic flora of Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia). Annals of Botany, 126 (6), 1017-1027. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa119

Frequency distribution of foliar nickel is bimodal in the ultramafic flora of Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia)

2020

Journal Article

Synchrotron µXRF imaging of live seedlings of Berkheya coddii and Odontarrhena muralis during germination and seedling growth

Paul, Adrian L. D., Harris, Hugh H., Erskine, Peter D., Przybyłowicz, Wojciech, Mesjasz-Przybyłowicz, Jolanta, Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Synchrotron µXRF imaging of live seedlings of Berkheya coddii and Odontarrhena muralis during germination and seedling growth. Plant and Soil, 453 (1-2), 487-501. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04591-4

Synchrotron µXRF imaging of live seedlings of Berkheya coddii and Odontarrhena muralis during germination and seedling growth

2020

Other Outputs

GCAA Hunter Valley Operations Rehabilitation Monitoring Procedure Review

Ufer, Natasha, McKenna, Phillip and Erskine, Peter (2020). GCAA Hunter Valley Operations Rehabilitation Monitoring Procedure Review. Brisbane: The University of Queensland.

GCAA Hunter Valley Operations Rehabilitation Monitoring Procedure Review

2020

Other Outputs

Physical soil characteristics

Hernandez-Santin, Lorna and Erskine, Peter D. (2020). Physical soil characteristics. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Sustainable Minerals Institute.

Physical soil characteristics

2020

Journal Article

Elemental distribution and chemical speciation of copper and cobalt in three metallophytes from the copper–cobalt belt in Northern Zambia

van der Ent, Antony, Vinya, Royd, Erskine, Peter D., Malaisse, François, Przybyłowicz, Wojciech J., Barnabas, Alban D., Harris, Hugh H. and Mesjasz-Przybyłowicz, Jolanta (2020). Elemental distribution and chemical speciation of copper and cobalt in three metallophytes from the copper–cobalt belt in Northern Zambia. Metallomics, 12 (5), 682-701. doi: 10.1039/c9mt00263d

Elemental distribution and chemical speciation of copper and cobalt in three metallophytes from the copper–cobalt belt in Northern Zambia

2020

Journal Article

A systematic assessment of the occurrence of trace element hyperaccumulation in the flora of New Caledonia

Gei, Vidiro, Isnard, Sandrine, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume, Fogliani, Bruno, Jaffré, Tanguy and van der Ent, Antony (2020). A systematic assessment of the occurrence of trace element hyperaccumulation in the flora of New Caledonia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 194 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1093/botlinnean/boaa029

A systematic assessment of the occurrence of trace element hyperaccumulation in the flora of New Caledonia

2020

Journal Article

Distribution and chemical form of selenium in Neptunia amplexicaulis from Central Queensland, Australia

Harvey, Maggie-Anne, Erskine, Peter D., Harris, Hugh H., Brown, Gillian K., Pilon-Smits, Elizabeth A. H., Casey, Lachlan W., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Distribution and chemical form of selenium in Neptunia amplexicaulis from Central Queensland, Australia. Metallomics, 12 (4), 514-527. doi: 10.1039/c9mt00244h

Distribution and chemical form of selenium in Neptunia amplexicaulis from Central Queensland, Australia

2020

Journal Article

Phytoextraction of high value elements and contaminants from mining and mineral wastes: opportunities and limitations

Corzo Remigio, Amelia, Chaney, Rufus L., Baker, Alan J. M., Edraki, Mansour, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Phytoextraction of high value elements and contaminants from mining and mineral wastes: opportunities and limitations. Plant and Soil, 449 (1-2), 11-37. doi: 10.1007/s11104-020-04487-3

Phytoextraction of high value elements and contaminants from mining and mineral wastes: opportunities and limitations

2020

Journal Article

Spatially-resolved localization of lanthanum and cerium in the rare earth element hyperaccumulator fern Dicranopteris linearis from China

Liu, Wenshen, van der Ent, Antony, Erskine, Peter D., Morel, Jean-Louis, Echevarria, Guillaume, Spiers, Kathryn M., Montarges-Pelletier, Emmanuelle Sophie, Qiu, Rong-Liang and Tang, Ye-Tao (2020). Spatially-resolved localization of lanthanum and cerium in the rare earth element hyperaccumulator fern Dicranopteris linearis from China. Environmental Science & Technology, 54 (4) acs.est.9b05728, 2287-2294. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b05728

Spatially-resolved localization of lanthanum and cerium in the rare earth element hyperaccumulator fern Dicranopteris linearis from China

2020

Journal Article

A review of revegetation at mine sites in the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, and the development of a state and transition model for ecological restoration at Ranger uranium mine

Hernandez-Santin, Lorna, Erskine, Peter D. and Bartolo, Renee E. (2020). A review of revegetation at mine sites in the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, and the development of a state and transition model for ecological restoration at Ranger uranium mine. Journal of Cleaner Production, 246 119079, 119079. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119079

A review of revegetation at mine sites in the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, and the development of a state and transition model for ecological restoration at Ranger uranium mine

2020

Journal Article

A preliminary survey of nickel, manganese and zinc (hyper)accumulation in the flora of Papua New Guinea from herbarium X-ray fluorescence scanning

Do, Christina, Abubakari, Farida, Corzo Remigio, Amelia, Brown, Gillian K., Casey, Lachlan W., Burtet-Sarramegna, Valérie, Gei, Vidiro, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2020). A preliminary survey of nickel, manganese and zinc (hyper)accumulation in the flora of Papua New Guinea from herbarium X-ray fluorescence scanning. Chemoecology, 30 (1), 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s00049-019-00293-1

A preliminary survey of nickel, manganese and zinc (hyper)accumulation in the flora of Papua New Guinea from herbarium X-ray fluorescence scanning

2020

Book Chapter

Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the herbarium

Purwadi, Imam, Gei, Vidiro, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria , Guillaume, Mesjasz-Przybyłowicz, Jolanta, Przybyłowicz, Wojciech J. and van der Ent, Antony (2020). Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the herbarium. Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources from plants. (pp. 183-195) edited by Antony van der Ent, Alan J. M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, Marie-Odile Simonnot and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2_9

Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the herbarium

2020

Book Chapter

Exceptional uptake and accumulation of chemical elements in plants: extending the hyperaccumulation paradigm

van der Ent, Antony, Pollard, A. Joseph, Echevarria, Guillaume, Abubakari, Farida, Erskine, Peter D., Baker, Alan J. M. and Reeves, Roger D. (2020). Exceptional uptake and accumulation of chemical elements in plants: extending the hyperaccumulation paradigm. Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources from plants. (pp. 99-131) edited by Antony van der Ent, Alan J. M. Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, Marie-Odile Simonnot and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58904-2_6

Exceptional uptake and accumulation of chemical elements in plants: extending the hyperaccumulation paradigm

Current funding

  • 2024 - 2027
    Optimising future copper production in the NW Mineral Province -Stage 1 scoping
    Queensland Department of Resources
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2027
    Quantitative Geophysics for Monitoring and Assessment of Mining Residue Structure
    Technological Resources Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2024 - 2028
    CoastRI - Coastal Monitoring Network
    AuScope Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2023 - 2025
    EarthDrone National Drone Infrastructure for the Earth with Cross-Platform Interoperability
    AuScope Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2025
    High-resolution monitoring of Newlands and Collinsville mine rehabilitation
    NC Coal Company Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2025
    Fingerprinting environmentally sustainable ores using neodymium isotopes
    Queensland Department of Resources
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2024
    Expanding Queensland's Rare Earth Element opportunities - defining and extracting new REE resources
    Queensland Department of Resources
    Open grant
  • 2022
    Drones4waste - A multi-scale, ground-to-air characterisation of waste and rehabilitation, Hercules mine site, Tasmania (304MMGHDRONE)
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2022 - 2024
    Carbon sequestration of forests in Vietnam and Uganda
    SK forest
    Open grant
  • 2021
    Selenium distribution and chemistry in the hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis
    Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
    Open grant
  • 2021
    Knowledge gaps and opportunities for earth observation tools in mine-rehabilitation at the property scale
    SmartSat CRC
    Open grant
  • 2021
    A Complex Orebodies Review of the Izok Lake Corridor Project (304MMGIZOK)
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Mine rehabilitation and closure collaboration project: Baseline Works
    Queensland Resources Council Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2021
    Transforming disparate approaches to remote sensing and monitoring to industry best practice (CRC TiME project administered by Dept Agriculture Water and the Environment)
    CRC TIME Limited
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2023
    Project ARK: Generating critical knowledge to support resilience-based management of Lady Elliot Island (Great Barrier Reef Foundation project administered by The University of the Sunshine Coast)
    University of the Sunshine Coast
    Open grant
  • 2020
    Baseline works for Moranbah post-mining land use collaborative project
    Anglo American Metallurgical Coal Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2020 - 2024
    Extracting Queensland's Rare Earth Elements Sustainably
    Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Distribution and translocation of foliar applied nickel in soybean
    Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
    Open grant
  • 2019
    Hail Creek rehabilitation report card implementation
    Glencore Coal Assets Australia
    Open grant
  • 2019 - 2023
    Provision of services and advice for ecosystem establishment and landform studies
    Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Energy
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2021
    Testing of the resilience of mine site rehabilitation
    NC Coal Company Pty Limited, New South Wales
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2019
    Metallophyte plant species and ecotypes at Dugald River - A forgotten resource
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2019
    Advanced micro-X-ray Fluorescence facility for biological, medical, materials science and geochemistry
    UQ Major Equipment and Infrastructure
    Open grant
  • 2017
    An assessment and review of work relating to closure criteria and rehabilitation standards and related support for RPAS activities
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2017
    Building the framework for meeting closure criteria in waste rock dump design and performance
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2016
    Elucidating the Ni and Zn biopathways during seed germination in differential ecotypes of Noccaea caerulescens
    Australian Synchrotron Access Program (ANSTO)
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2018
    Applying converged monitoring to inform closure management against agreed criteria
    MMG Australia Limited
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2017
    Cost efficient landscape rehabilitation assessment Phase 1
    Glencore Coal (NSW) Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2017
    Cost efficient empirically based framework using integrated datasets to demonstrate rehabilitation quality
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2018
    Measuring rehabilitation response to fire: Implications for long term resilience and mine closure
    Wesfarmers Curragh Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2015
    The potential of Zambian copper-cobalt hyperaccumulator plants for phytoremediation of polluted (mining/smelter) soils
    University of Western Australia
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Flora and Fauna Monitoring
    Centennial Airly Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Establishment of step change flora monitoring and investigation of YS2-6 seepage points associated with Narrow and Kangaroo Creek Shrub Swamps
    Centennial Angus Place Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2014
    Swamp Ecosystem Health Impacts
    Springvale Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013
    Landform and Rehabilitation Assessment for Charbon Coal Mine
    Charbon Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Persoonia Hindii: Management and Research Program - species, distribution and security on the Newnes Plateau Angus Place
    Centennial Angus Place Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Persoonia Hindii: Management and Research Program - species, distribution and security on the Newnes Plateau Springvale
    Springvale Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2014
    Development of a Long-term Ecological Research Monitoring Program for Significant Flora & Fauna Species at Airly Mine and Mugii Murum-ban SCA
    Centennial Airly Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    Analysing rehabilitation success at the McFarlane Project
    QER Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    Environmental and Ecological Assessment Methodologies for Centennial Coal Operations
    Springvale Coal Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2016
    Measuring the success of the rehabilitation strategies at the Curragh Mine 2012-2016 Assessment
    Wesfarmers Curragh Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    XCQ Rehabilitation Management Protocol Implementation Project: Understanding the Business Exposure and Raising the Bar on Land Stewardship
    Xstrata Coal Queensland
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Monitoring surface condition of landscape features subject to mining subsidence with very high resolution imagery
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2011
    Development and monitoring of vegetation trails on spent shale from Paraho process
    QER Pty Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2013
    Risk assessment tools to support end use decisions for mined land of the Bowen Basin
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Soil organic matter and green carbon in rehabilitation: their role in the carbon balance
    Australian Coal Association Research Program
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Revegetation assessment program for the D-tree tenement and historic paradise workings in NW Queensland
    Legend International Holdings, Inc.
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2013
    Identifying cost-effective reforestation approaches for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration in the Australian wet tropics
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2009
    Change detection in rehabilitation monitoring of degraded mined land
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2011
    Long term rehabilitation monitoring at Meandu Mine
    Tarong Energy Corporation Ltd
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2008
    Development of monitoring parameters for rehabilitation progress at RTA Weipa
    Technological Resources Pty Limited
    Open grant
  • 2002 - 2011
    Rehabilitation monitoring at Curragh Coal Mine
    Curragh Queensland Mining Limited
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Peter Erskine is:
Not available for supervision

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fire Resilience of Mine Site Rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Stuart Phinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Fire Resilience of Mine Site Rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Stuart Phinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Assessing the ecological trajectory of mine rehabilitation - Focusing on the Nabarlek Uranium Project

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Holcombe

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Testing the resilience of mine site rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Stuart Phinn

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Assessing the ecological trajectory of mine rehabilitation - Focusing on the Nabarlek Uranium Project

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sarah Holcombe

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Acid Mine Drainage Passive Treatment Method Using Hyperaccumulator Plants for Post Mining Rehabilitation

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Gordon Southam, Dr Denys Villa Gomez

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of selenium tolerance and accumulation in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Cheong Xin Chan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of selenium tolerance and accumulation in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Cheong Xin Chan

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Ecophysiology and molecular genetics of selenium tolerance and accumulation in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Cheong Xin Chan

Completed supervision

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