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)

141 - 160 of 261 works

2018

Journal Article

Detecting the dynamics of vegetation disturbance and recovery in surface mining area via Landsat imagery and LandTrendr algorithm

Yang, Yongjun, Erskine, Peter D., Lechner, Alex M., Mulligan, David, Zhang, Shaoliang and Wang, Zhenyu (2018). Detecting the dynamics of vegetation disturbance and recovery in surface mining area via Landsat imagery and LandTrendr algorithm. Journal of Cleaner Production, 178, 353-362. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.01.050

Detecting the dynamics of vegetation disturbance and recovery in surface mining area via Landsat imagery and LandTrendr algorithm

2018

Conference Publication

Foliar elemental profiles in the ultramafic flora of Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia)

van der Ent, Antony, Mulligan, David Robert, Repin, Rimi and Erskine, Peter Damian (2018). Foliar elemental profiles in the ultramafic flora of Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia). 9th International Conference on Serpentine Ecology (ICSE), Tirana and Pogradec, Albania, 5-9 June 2017. Tokyo, Japan: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/s11284-018-1563-7

Foliar elemental profiles in the ultramafic flora of Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia)

2018

Book Chapter

Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species and understanding their ecophysiology

Gei, Vidiro, Erskine, Peter D., Harris, Hugh H., Echevarria, Guillaume, Mesjasz-Przybylowicz, Jolanta, Barnabas, Alban D., Kopittke, Peter M. and van der Ent, Antony (2018). Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species and understanding their ecophysiology. Agromining: farming for metals. (pp. 117-133) edited by Antony Van der Ent, Guillaume Echevarria, Alan J. M. Baker and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-61899-9_7

Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species and understanding their ecophysiology

2018

Book Chapter

Applying modern ecological methods for monitoring and modelling mine rehabilitation success

Lechner, A. M., Arnold, S., McCaffrey, N. B., Gordon, A., Erskine, P. D., Gillespie, M. J. and Mulligan, D. R. (2018). Applying modern ecological methods for monitoring and modelling mine rehabilitation success. From start to finish – a life-of-mine perspective. (pp. 109-116) Carlton South, VIC Australia: AUSIMM.

Applying modern ecological methods for monitoring and modelling mine rehabilitation success

2018

Book Chapter

Incorporating hyperaccumulator plants into mine rehabilitation in the Asia-Pacific region

Erskine, Peter D., Lee, Gavin, Fogliani, Bruno, L'Huillier, Laurent and McCoy, Stephane (2018). Incorporating hyperaccumulator plants into mine rehabilitation in the Asia-Pacific region. Agromining: farming for metals: extracting unconventional resources using plants. (pp. 189-204) edited by Antony van der Ent, Guillaume Echevarria, Alan J. M. Baker and Jean Louis Morel. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-61899-9_10

Incorporating hyperaccumulator plants into mine rehabilitation in the Asia-Pacific region

2018

Book Chapter

Phytomining: using plants to extract valuable metals from mineralized wastes and uneconomic resources

Nkrumah, Philip N., Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2018). Phytomining: using plants to extract valuable metals from mineralized wastes and uneconomic resources. Extracting innovations: mining, energy, and technological change in the digital age. (pp. 313-324) edited by Martin J. Clifford, Robert K. Perrons, Saleem H. Ali and Tim A. Grice. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.1201/b22353-23

Phytomining: using plants to extract valuable metals from mineralized wastes and uneconomic resources

2018

Book Chapter

Using pilot tests to improve the monitoring of ecological impacts of subsidence from underground coal mining

McCaffrey, N. B., Glenn, V. C., Johns, C., Lechner, A. M. and Erskine, P. D. (2018). Using pilot tests to improve the monitoring of ecological impacts of subsidence from underground coal mining. From start to finish: a life of mine perspective. (pp. 143-151) edited by Cherie McCullough, Bruce Harvey, Corinne Unger, Jan Coetzee and Stuart Winchester. Carlton South, VIC Australia: AUSIMM.

Using pilot tests to improve the monitoring of ecological impacts of subsidence from underground coal mining

2018

Journal Article

Corrigendum to: Metallophytes on Zn-Pb mineralised soils and mining wastes in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia (vol 66, pg 124, 2018)

Paul, A. L. D., Erskine, P. D. and van der Ent, A. (2018). Corrigendum to: Metallophytes on Zn-Pb mineralised soils and mining wastes in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia (vol 66, pg 124, 2018). Australian Journal of Botany, 66 (3), 286-286. doi: 10.1071/bt17143_co

Corrigendum to: Metallophytes on Zn-Pb mineralised soils and mining wastes in Broken Hill, NSW, Australia (vol 66, pg 124, 2018)

2017

Journal Article

Nickel hyperaccumulation in Antidesma montis-silam: from herbarium discovery to collection in the native habitat

Nkrumah, Philip N., Echevarria, Guillaume, Erskine, Peter D. and van der Ent, Antony (2017). Nickel hyperaccumulation in Antidesma montis-silam: from herbarium discovery to collection in the native habitat. Ecological Research, 33 (3), 1-11. doi: 10.1007/s11284-017-1542-4

Nickel hyperaccumulation in Antidesma montis-silam: from herbarium discovery to collection in the native habitat

2017

Journal Article

A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements

Reeves, Roger D., Baker, Alan J. M., Jaffré, Tanguy, Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume and van der Ent, Antony (2017). A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements. New Phytologist, 218 (2), 407-411. doi: 10.1111/nph.14907

A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements

2017

Journal Article

The role of topography and plant functional traits in determining tropical reforestation success

Cheesman, Alexander W., Preece, Noel D., van Oosterzee, Penny, Erskine, Peter D. and Cernusak, Lucas A. (2017). The role of topography and plant functional traits in determining tropical reforestation success. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55 (2), 1029-1039. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12980

The role of topography and plant functional traits in determining tropical reforestation success

2017

Journal Article

Managing imperfection in post-mined landscapes: determining the best practicable ecosystem reference sites

McCaffrey, Nic, Erskine, Peter and Doley, David (2017). Managing imperfection in post-mined landscapes: determining the best practicable ecosystem reference sites. Australasian Plant Conservation, 25 (4), 12-13. doi: 10.5962/p.373695

Managing imperfection in post-mined landscapes: determining the best practicable ecosystem reference sites

2017

Journal Article

Quantitative differentiation of coal, char and soil organic matter in an Australian coal minesoil

Chan, Jaclyn, Plante, Alain F., Peltre, Clément, Baumgartl, Thomas and Erskine, Peter (2017). Quantitative differentiation of coal, char and soil organic matter in an Australian coal minesoil. Thermochimica Acta, 650, 44-55. doi: 10.1016/j.tca.2017.02.006

Quantitative differentiation of coal, char and soil organic matter in an Australian coal minesoil

2017

Journal Article

Fire behaviour on engineered landforms stabilised with high biomass buffel grass

McKenna, Phill, Glenn, Vanessa, Erskine, Peter D., Doley, David and Sturgess, Andrew (2017). Fire behaviour on engineered landforms stabilised with high biomass buffel grass. Ecological Engineering, 101, 237-246. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.01.038

Fire behaviour on engineered landforms stabilised with high biomass buffel grass

2017

Journal Article

A methodology to monitor airborne PM10 dust particles using a small unmanned aerial vehicle

Alvarado, Miguel, Gonzalez, Felipe, Erskine, Peter, Cliff, David and Heuff, Darlene (2017). A methodology to monitor airborne PM10 dust particles using a small unmanned aerial vehicle. Sensors, 17 (2) 343, 343. doi: 10.3390/s17020343

A methodology to monitor airborne PM10 dust particles using a small unmanned aerial vehicle

2017

Journal Article

Measuring fire severity using UAV imagery in semi-arid central Queensland, Australia

McKenna, Phill, Erskine, Peter D., Lechner, Alex M. and Phinn, Stuart (2017). Measuring fire severity using UAV imagery in semi-arid central Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38 (14), 4244-4264. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1317942

Measuring fire severity using UAV imagery in semi-arid central Queensland, Australia

2016

Journal Article

What are appropriate rehabilitation standards?

Lamb, D. and Erskine, P. (2016). What are appropriate rehabilitation standards?. AusIMM Bulletin (5).

What are appropriate rehabilitation standards?

2016

Journal Article

Spatial-temporal pattern differentiation and influencing mechanism of land reclamation in China

Yang, Yongjun, Zhang, Shaoliang, Bian, Zhengfu, Erskine, Peter and Li, Xiaoshun (2016). Spatial-temporal pattern differentiation and influencing mechanism of land reclamation in China. Nongye Gongcheng Xuebao/Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, 32 (17), 206-214. doi: 10.11975/j.issn.1002-6819.2016.17.028

Spatial-temporal pattern differentiation and influencing mechanism of land reclamation in China

2016

Other Outputs

Compliance Assessment of North Stradbroke Island Mine Site Rehabilitation

McKenna, Phillip, Gravina, Mandy, Glenn, Vanessa, Erskine, Peter, Nath, Vinod and Johns, Caitlin (2016). Compliance Assessment of North Stradbroke Island Mine Site Rehabilitation. Brisbane: The University of Queensland.

Compliance Assessment of North Stradbroke Island Mine Site Rehabilitation

2016

Journal Article

Current status and challenges in developing nickel phytomining: an agronomic perspective

Nkrumah, Philip Nti, Baker, Alan J. M., Chaney, Rufus L., Erskine, Peter D., Echevarria, Guillaume, Morel, Jean Louis and van der Ent, Antony (2016). Current status and challenges in developing nickel phytomining: an agronomic perspective. Plant And Soil, 406 (1-2), 55-69. doi: 10.1007/s11104-016-2859-4

Current status and challenges in developing nickel phytomining: an agronomic perspective

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

    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

    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

    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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