Dr Tshewang Dorji
Position | Research Officer |
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Org Unit | Agricultural Science |
tshewang.dorji@adelaide.edu.au | |
Telephone | 0 0449224611 |
Mobile | 0 0449224611 |
Location |
Floor/Room
Level One
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Wine Innovation Central
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Waite
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Biography/ Background
Tshewang Dorji (Dorji) is a Research Officer at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, Waite Campus. With a B.Sc in Forestry (Hons) from India and an M.Sc in Natural Environmental Studies from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Tokyo, Japan, Dorji has a solid foundation in environmental science. He completed his PhD in plant ecology and grazing at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ earning the Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence.
Dorji's career began as a Forestry Officer with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Bhutan Government, where he led key projects in forestry, wildlife, ecological restoration, ecosystem services and climate change. In ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥, he served as a Biosecurity Researcher with South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s Biosecurity division, where he focussed on conserving native plants and animals from threatening processes like invasive species and climate change.
Since 2021, Dorji has been working as a Research Officer with the Future Drought Fund's Drought Resilient Soils and Landscapes Project at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide focussing on improving pasture cultivars and management practices towards building climate resilience in mixed farms across South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.
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Publications
· Dorji T, Jayasingha Ellakkala Appuhamilage RMJ, Bird PL, Huang N, O'Connor TW, Patel KK, Strive T, Taggart PL., (2023). Optimising the Delivery of RHDV to Rabbits for Biocontrol: An Experimental Evaluation of Two Novel Methods of Virus Delivery. Viruses. 2023 Aug 25;15(9):1814. doi: 10.3390/v15091814. PMID: 37766220; PMCID: PMC10536075.
· Dorji, T., Facelli, J.M., Norbu, T., Delean, S., Brookes, J.D., (2020). Tree shelters facilitate brown oak seedling survival and establishment in a grazing dominant forest of Bhutan, Eastern Himalaya. Restoration Ecology 28, 1145-1157.
· Dorji, T., Brookes, J., Facelli, J., Sears, R., Norbu, T., Dorji, K., Chhetri, Y., Baral, H., (2019). Socio-Cultural Values of Ecosystem Services from Oak Forests in the Eastern Himalaya. Sustainability 11, 2250.
· Sears, R., Choden, K., Dorji, T., Dukpa, D., Phuntsho, S., Rai, P., Wangchuk, J., Baral, H., (2018). Bhutan’s Forests through the Framework of Ecosystem Services: Rapid Assessment in Three Forest Types. Forests 9, 675.
· Baral, H., Jaung, W., Bhatta, L.D., Phuntsho, S., Sharma, S., Paudyal, K., Zarandian, A., Sears, R., Sharma, R., Dorji, T., Artati, Y., (2017). Approaches and tools for assessing mountain forest ecosystem services. In, Working paper. CIFOR, Indonesia.
· Wangdi, N., Om, Kuenzang., Thinley, C., Dukpa, D., Dorji, T., Darabant, A., Chhetri, P., Ahmed, I., Staudhammer, C., Jandl, R., Schindlbacher A., Hietz, P., Katzensteiner, K., Godbold, D., Gratzer, G. (2017). Climate Change in Remote Mountain Regions: A Throughfall-Exclusion Experiment to Simulate Monsoon Failure in the Himalayas. Mountain Research and Development 37 (3):294-309.
· Dorji, T., Lama, M.K., Namgyel, D. (2015). Breaking the stone: Overcoming seed dormancy and seedling emergence of the rare Ziziphus budhensis in Bhutan Himalayas. In. Jour. of Pl. Sci., 4(3):47-54.
· Dorji, T., Gyaltshen, D., Ghemiray, D.K., Wangda, P., Fukuda, K. (2015). . Indian Forester,141 (3):324-332.
· Covey, k., Carroll, C. J.W., Duguid., Dorji, K., Dorji, T., Tashi, S., Wangdi, T., Ashton, M. (2014). Developmental dynamics following selective logging of an evergreen oak forest in the Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan: Structure, composition, and spatial pattern. Forest Ecology & Management. 336(2015):163-167.
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