Associate Professor J. Doland Nichols BSc(Oregon) MSc(Forestry)(Purdue) PhD(NthnArizona) Assoc Prof J. Doland Nichols began working in forestry in silviculture with the United States Forest Service in the Douglas fir region of western Oregon. Doland became interested in tropical forestry and spent six years in Costa Rica working as a forestry researcher, lecturer, and forestry extensionist, including projects for the Organization for Tropical Studies (USA). His Master's research at Purdue University, USA, was done on the ecology and silviculture of Terminalia amazonia in Costa Rica, where he still has on-going projects. His PhD research involved studies on the tropical tree Milicia excelsa at the Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) West Africa. He served as Forestry project leader and lecturer on the Pacific island of American Samoa. Since coming to SCU in late 1998, Doland has worked with mixed subtropical rainforest in natural and planted stands, on various forest health issues, including psyllids in plantations of Eucalyptus dunnii, and on bell-miner associated dieback, in native eucalypt forest silviculture, and on pruning and thinning regimes in eucalypt plantations. Current research topics include: Rainforest ecology & regeneration Subtropical/tropical silviculture Agroforestry Tree species diversity in natural forests Mixed species plantations
Journal articles
Forestry at Southern Cross University: fifteen years in review (with Diana Lloyd, Kathryn H. Taffs, and Jerome K. Vanclay), International Forestry Review (2011)
After 15 years, it is timely to review the 4-year bachelor degree in forestry offered...
Mechanical but not physical dormancy is cause of poor germination in teak, New Forests (2011)
Site index prediction of Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden plantations with soil and site parameters in sub-tropical eastern Australia (with John C. Grant, Geoff B. Smith, Paul S. Brennan, and Jerome K. Vanclay), Australian Forestry (2010)
The Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden plantation estate in north-eastern NSW and south-eastern Queensland is significantly expanding...
A long and winding road: the regulation of private native forestry in New South Wales, Australia (with Jerome K. Vanclay), Small-Scale Forestry (2007)
This special issue of Small-Scale Forestry is concerned with private native forestry (PNF) in New...
A method for assessing arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi group distribution in tree roots by intergenic transcribed sequence variation (with Mervyn Shepherd, Linh Nguyen, Megan E. Jones, and F Lynn Carpenter), Plant and Soil (2007)
We identified five taxonomic groups of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) inside roots of young trees...
Conference publications
Information sources and dispersal channels in the extension of pasture weed management technologies in southern eastern Kenyan rangelands (with Munyasi J. Wanjala and David J. Lloyd), Australian Pacific Extension Network Forums (2003)
This paper analyses perceived constraints encountered by farmers while sourcing appropriate information through various communication...
Other
Sustainable private native forestry – timber production, biodiversity and soil and water indicators and their applicability to northeast NSW (with V Alex Jay, David Sharpe, and Jerome K. Vanclay), Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIDC) (2009)
What the report is about
Private Native Forests are a dominant part of the landscape...