Australia's megafires: Biodiversity impacts and lessons from 2019-2020

S van Leeuwen - 2023 - books.google.com
The Australian wildfires of 2019–20 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented.
These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and …

Large‐scale ecological restoration of degraded tropical forest lands: the potential role of timber plantations

D Lamb - Restoration ecology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Large areas of the world's tropical forests are being degraded, with a consequent loss of
species diversity. Only some of these are able to recover unaided. Where attempts are being …

Landscape processes and eucalypt dieback associated with bell miner habitat in south-eastern Australia

G Wardell-Johnson, AJJ Lynch - Australian Forestry, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we review current knowledge concerning the relationship between bell-miner-
associated dieback and landscape-scale processes. We consider land clearing and …

Factors affecting the use of reforested sites by reptiles in cleared rainforest landscapes in tropical and subtropical Australia

JJ Kanowski, TM Reis, CP Catterall… - Restoration …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Despite recent efforts to reforest cleared rainforest landscapes, in Australia and elsewhere,
the value of reforested sites for rainforest‐dependent reptiles is unknown. We surveyed the …

Do frugivorous birds assist rainforest succession in weed dominated oldfield regrowth of subtropical Australia?

W Neilan, CP Catterall, J Kanowski, S McKenna - Biological Conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
Exotic plants often form the first woody vegetation that grows on abandoned farmland. If this
vegetation attracts vertebrate frugivores which disperse the seeds of native plants, then …

Quantifying the biodiversity values of reforestation: perspectives, design issues and outcomes in Australian rainforest landscapes

C Catterall, J Kanowski, G Wardell-Johnson… - 2004 - research-repository.griffith.edu.au
Following two centuries of land clearing, the past two decades have seen growing efforts to
reestablish forest on formerly-cleared sites. While the immediate goals of reforestation vary …

Biodiversity–productivity relationships in small-scale mixed-species plantations using native species in Leyte province, Philippines

H Nguyen, J Herbohn, J Firn, D Lamb - Forest Ecology and Management, 2012 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigate the relationship between tree species diversity and production in
18 mixed-species plantations established under the Rainforestation Farming system in …

Designing mixed species tree plantations for the tropics: balancing ecological attributes of species with landholder preferences in the Philippines

H Nguyen, D Lamb, J Herbohn, J Firn - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
A mixed species reforestation program known as the Rainforestation Farming system was
undertaken in the Philippines to develop forms of farm forestry more suitable for …

Rainforest persistence and recruitment after Australia's 2019–2020 fires in subtropical, temperate, dry and littoral rainforests

AG Baker, C Catterall, M Wiseman - Australian Journal of Botany, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Interactions between rainforest plants and fire occur when fires encroach into rainforest and
when rainforest pioneers colonise fire-prone open forests. Although numerous studies show …

Conservation of Australia's forest fauna

D Lunney, D Lunney - 1991 - meridian.allenpress.com
Most people in Australia live in areas that were forested in 1788. Much of it is a now a
cultural landscape, and it may be hard to see it as habitat for forest fauna. The challenge of …