Shifting baselines clarify the impact of contemporary logging on forest‐dependent threatened species

M Ward, K Ashman, DB Lindenmayer… - … Science and Practice, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the importance of protecting forests and woodlands to achieve global climate and
biodiversity goals, logging impacts persist worldwide. Forestry advocates often downplay …

The choice of path to resilience is crucial to the future of production forests

A Felton, R Seidl, DB Lindenmayer, C Messier… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Resilience in production forests can be achieved through natural ecological processes or
repeated intensive interventions. We caution that 'coerced'resilience derived from intense …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into Boreal Forest Disturbance from Canopy Stability Index

B Mackey, S Hugh, P Norman, BM Rogers, D Dellasala - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
The world's forests are being increasingly disturbed from exposure to the compounding
impacts of land use and climate change, in addition to natural disturbance regimes. Boreal …

Reply to: Mechanisms by which growth and succession limit the impact of fire in a south‐western Australian forested ecosystem—A comment on Zylstra et al.'s model

P Zylstra, G Wardell‐Johnson - Functional Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical evidence in scientific literature shows that forest flammability in south‐western
Australia declines as forests recover from disturbance, indicating that current policies …

[HTML][HTML] Fuel accumulation shapes post-fire fuel decomposition through soil heating effects on plants, fungi, and soil chemistry

JR Hopkins, TA Semenova-Nelsen, JM Huffman… - Science of The Total …, 2025 - Elsevier
Forty percent of terrestrial ecosystems require recurrent fires driven by feedbacks between
fire and plant fuels. The accumulation of fine fuels in these ecosystems play a key role in fire …

[HTML][HTML] Fire management now and in the future: Will today's solutions still apply tomorrow?

E Marshall, BG Marcot, K Parkins… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change and fire management actions are the two key drivers of fire regime changes
now and into the future. The predicted effects of these drivers vary between regions and …

Framing ecological forestry: applying principles for the restoration of post-production forests

GW Wardell-Johnson, B Schultz… - Pacific Conservation …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Context: Decades of industrial-scale logging have damaged the structure, function, and
composition of Australia's forests; increased the threat from severe fires; and generated …

A widely employed water supply catchment model and other empirical insights suggest that logging may contribute to lower water yields

C Taylor, H Keith, D Lindenmayer - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
In an earlier study published in Science of the Total Environment (Taylor et al., 2019), we
used an established hydrological model (based on what is known as the Kuzcera curve), to …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections

DB Lindenmayer, E Bowd, K Youngentob… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Using a 26-year dataset, we quantify temporal change in detections of arboreal marsupial
species in the tall, wet montane ash forests of mainland south-eastern Australia. We sought …

Reply to Comment on 'Self-thinning forest understoreys reduce wildfire risk, even in a warming climate'

PJ Zylstra, DB Lindenmayer… - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Our previous analysis of mapped records of forest fires in National Parks in Southwestern
Australia showed that fires initiated a pulse in flammability (the likelihood of a point being …