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)

161 - 180 of 261 works

2016

Journal Article

Vegetation on ultramafic edaphic ‘islands’ in Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia) in relation to soil chemistry and elevation

van der Ent, Antony, Erskine, Peter, Mulligan, David, Repin, Rimi and Karim, Rositti (2016). Vegetation on ultramafic edaphic ‘islands’ in Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia) in relation to soil chemistry and elevation. Plant and Soil, 403 (1), 77-101. doi: 10.1007/s11104-016-2831-3

Vegetation on ultramafic edaphic ‘islands’ in Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia) in relation to soil chemistry and elevation

2016

Conference Publication

Fire Behaviour in Buffel Grass Dominated Mine Site Rehabilitation in Central Queensland, Australia

McKenna, P., Glenn, V. C., Erskine, P. D., Doley, D. and Sturgess, A. (2016). Fire Behaviour in Buffel Grass Dominated Mine Site Rehabilitation in Central Queensland, Australia. Life-of-Mine 2016, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 28-30 September 2016. AusIMM: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Fire Behaviour in Buffel Grass Dominated Mine Site Rehabilitation in Central Queensland, Australia

2016

Conference Publication

Post-mined landscapes aren’t the Garden of Eden: approaches for determining reference sites where ecosystem replacement is not the aim

McCaffrey, Nic, Erskine, Peter and Doley, David (2016). Post-mined landscapes aren’t the Garden of Eden: approaches for determining reference sites where ecosystem replacement is not the aim. 11th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference (APCC11) 2016, Melbourne, 14-18 November 2016.

Post-mined landscapes aren’t the Garden of Eden: approaches for determining reference sites where ecosystem replacement is not the aim

2016

Book

Evaluating performance: Monitoring and auditing: Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry

Nichols, Owen, Coleman, Misha, Jones, David R., Unger, Corinne J., Donato, David, Pattenden, Catherine, Smith, Ross, Waggitt, Peter, Williams, David, Erskine, Peter, Brown, Graham, Pape, Sophie, Sandison, Rod, Bennett, Kate, Davies, Paul, Tucker, Claire and Thom, Victoria (2016). Evaluating performance: Monitoring and auditing: Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Commonwealth of Australia.

Evaluating performance: Monitoring and auditing: Leading Practice Sustainable Development Program for the Mining Industry

2016

Conference Publication

Spatial and temporal changes of soil organic carbon content since time of reclamation of mine soils in a semi-arid environment of Australia

Baumgartl, Thomas , Glenn, Vanessa , Erskine, Peter and Chan, Jaclyn (2016). Spatial and temporal changes of soil organic carbon content since time of reclamation of mine soils in a semi-arid environment of Australia. EGU General Assembly 2016, Vienna Austria, 17–22 April 2016. Goettingen, Germany: Copernicus.

Spatial and temporal changes of soil organic carbon content since time of reclamation of mine soils in a semi-arid environment of Australia

2016

Conference Publication

Recent advances in developing tropical nickel agromining

van der Ent, A., Echevarria, G. and Erskine, P. (2016). Recent advances in developing tropical nickel agromining. 28th International Mineral Processing Congress, IMPC 2016, Quebec City, Canada, 11-15 September 2016. Quebec City, Canada: Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.

Recent advances in developing tropical nickel agromining

2015

Journal Article

Ecotones as indicators: Boundary properties in wetland-woodland transition zones

Brownstein, G., Johns, C., Fletcher, A., Pritchard, D. and Erskine, P.D. (2015). Ecotones as indicators: Boundary properties in wetland-woodland transition zones. Community Ecology, 16 (2), 235-243. doi: 10.1556/168.2015.16.2.11

Ecotones as indicators: Boundary properties in wetland-woodland transition zones

2015

Journal Article

Testing the power of a wetland vegetation monitoring survey design to detect change based on visual cover estimates

Johns, Caitlin V., Brownstein, Gretchen, Blick, Raymond A. J., Erskine, Peter D. and Fletcher, Andrew T. (2015). Testing the power of a wetland vegetation monitoring survey design to detect change based on visual cover estimates. Wetlands, 35 (6), 1055-1064. doi: 10.1007/s13157-015-0694-7

Testing the power of a wetland vegetation monitoring survey design to detect change based on visual cover estimates

2015

Other Outputs

Research and monitoring of flora and native vegetation at Airly Mine and Mugii Murum-ban State Conservation Area, NSW

McCaffrey, Nic, McKenna, Phill, Glenn, Vanessa, Fletcher, Andrew and Erskine, Peter (2015). Research and monitoring of flora and native vegetation at Airly Mine and Mugii Murum-ban State Conservation Area, NSW.

Research and monitoring of flora and native vegetation at Airly Mine and Mugii Murum-ban State Conservation Area, NSW

2015

Other Outputs

Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Clermont Open Cut Mine

McCaffrey, Nic, Gravina, Mandy, Erskine, Peter and Fletcher, Andrew (2015). Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Clermont Open Cut Mine. Brisbane, Australia:

Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Clermont Open Cut Mine

2015

Other Outputs

Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Oaky Creek Coal

McCaffrey, Nic, Gravina, Mandy, Brownstein, Gretchen, Erskine, Peter and Fletcher, Andrew (2015). Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Oaky Creek Coal. Brisbane, Australia:

Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Oaky Creek Coal

2015

Other Outputs

Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Newlands Coal Project

McCaffrey, N., Gravina, M., Erskine, P. and Fletcher, A. (2015). Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Newlands Coal Project. Research Report St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland Centre For Mined Land Rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation monitoring for Glencore Coal operations, Queensland - Reference site establishment for Newlands Coal Project

2015

Journal Article

Detecting the effects of water regime on wetland plant communities: which plant indicator groups perform best?

Johns, C. V., Brownstein, G., Fletcher, A., Blick, R. A. J. and Erskine, P. D. (2015). Detecting the effects of water regime on wetland plant communities: which plant indicator groups perform best?. Aquatic Botany, 123, 54-63. doi: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2015.02.002

Detecting the effects of water regime on wetland plant communities: which plant indicator groups perform best?

2015

Journal Article

Agromining: farming for metals in the future?

van der Ent, Antony, Baker, Alan J. M., Reeves, Roger D., Chaney, Rufus L., Anderson, Christopher W. N., Meech, John A., Erskine, Peter D., Simonnot, Marie-Odile, Vaughan, James, Morel, Jean Louis, Echevarria, Guillaume, Fogliani, Bruno, Rongliang, Qiu and Mulligan, David R. (2015). Agromining: farming for metals in the future?. Environmental Science and Technology, 49 (8), 4773-4780. doi: 10.1021/es506031u

Agromining: farming for metals in the future?

2015

Journal Article

Ecology of nickel hyperaccumulator plants from ultramafic soils in Sabah (Malaysia)

van der Ent, Antony, Erskine, Peter and Sumail, Sukaibin (2015). Ecology of nickel hyperaccumulator plants from ultramafic soils in Sabah (Malaysia). Chemoecology, 25 (5), 243-259. doi: 10.1007/s00049-015-0192-7

Ecology of nickel hyperaccumulator plants from ultramafic soils in Sabah (Malaysia)

2015

Other Outputs

Soil organic matter and green carbon in rehabilitation:their role in the carbon balance

Baumgartl, Thomas, Erskine, Peter, Chan, Jaclyn and Glenn, Vanessa (2015). Soil organic matter and green carbon in rehabilitation:their role in the carbon balance. Brisbane, Australia:

Soil organic matter and green carbon in rehabilitation:their role in the carbon balance

2015

Conference Publication

ACARP C23023 Industry-based rehabilitation and closure knowledge management system: Scoping Study

Unger C J, Woodley A, Gillespie M, Baumgartl T, Smith Carl, Erskine P and Fletcher A (2015). ACARP C23023 Industry-based rehabilitation and closure knowledge management system: Scoping Study. Tom Farrell Institute, Mined Land Rehabilitation conference, Singleton, NSW, Australia, 26 March 2015.

ACARP C23023 Industry-based rehabilitation and closure knowledge management system: Scoping Study

2015

Conference Publication

Current developments in agromining and phytomining

van der Ent, Antony, Echevarria, Guillaume, Morel, Jean Louis, Simonnot, Marie-Odile, Benizri, Emile, Baker, Alan and Erskine, Peter (2015). Current developments in agromining and phytomining. 13th Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, Nancy, France, 24-27 August, 2015. Nancy, France: SGA.

Current developments in agromining and phytomining

2015

Conference Publication

Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging elucidates fine-scale elemental distribution in Rinorea bengalensis and R. javanica (Violaceae)

van der Ent, Antony, Harris, Hugh H., Erskine, Peter D. and Echevarria, Guillaume (2015). Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging elucidates fine-scale elemental distribution in Rinorea bengalensis and R. javanica (Violaceae). 13th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements (ICOBTE), Fukuoka, Japan, 12–16 July 2015. Fukuoka, Japan: ICOBTE.

Synchrotron X-ray fluorescence imaging elucidates fine-scale elemental distribution in Rinorea bengalensis and R. javanica (Violaceae)

2015

Journal Article

Democratisation of biological collections: developing an online image herbarium for mine rehabilitation sites in Queensland

McCaffrey, Nic, Fletcher, Andrew, Erskine, Peter, Mulligan, David and Giddens, Michael (2015). Democratisation of biological collections: developing an online image herbarium for mine rehabilitation sites in Queensland. Australasian Plant Conservation, 24 (1), 9-11.

Democratisation of biological collections: developing an online image herbarium for mine rehabilitation sites in Queensland

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

    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

    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

    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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