Potential for forest thinning to reduce risk and increase resilience to wildfire in Australian temperate Eucalyptus forests

RJ Keenan, CJ Weston, L Volkova - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Unprecedented wildfires in south-eastern Australia in 2019–2020 focused attention on forest
management to reduce their risks and impacts. These fires mostly burnt dry eucalypt forests …

Quantifying the extent of protected‐area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement in Australia

CN Cook, RS Valkan, MB Mascia… - Conservation …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The use of total area protected as the predominant indicator of progress in building
protected area (PA) networks is receiving growing criticism. Documenting the full dynamics …

The influence of different restoration thinning treatments on tree growth in a depleted forest system

GW Brown, A Murphy, B Fanson, A Tolsma - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Land managers increasingly are interested in the means by which degraded or alienated
forest ecosystems can be restored, typically for biodiversity gains. Indeed, there is some …

Empirically validating a dense woody regrowth 'problem'and thinning 'solution'for understory vegetation

CS Jones, DH Duncan, L Rumpff, FM Thomas… - Forest Ecology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In landscapes with a short history of intensive land use, woody plant regrowth on cleared
land is often favorably received as a shift back to a more natural state. However, it is …

Can ecological thinning deliver conservation outcomes in high-density river red gum forests? Establishing an adaptive management experiment

EJ Gorrod, P Childs, DA Keith, S Bowen… - Pacific Conservation …, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
Newly protected areas often have land-use legacies that affect their capacity to deliver
conservation outcomes into the future. The management actions required to achieve …

[PDF][PDF] How snow gum forests and sub-alpine peatlands recover after fire: Black Saturday Victoria 2009–Natural values fire recovery program

F Coates, PJ Cullen, H Zimmer… - … of Sustainability and …, 2012 - ari.vic.gov.au
A qualitative and quantitative understanding of the response of plant populations to
disturbance informs management decisions and is important in distinguishing short-term …

A report on silvicultural guidelines for the 2024-2033 Forest Management Plan to the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions

R Harper, N Burrows, R Silberstein, P Baker - 2022 - researchportal.murdoch.edu.au
Abstract The Forest Management Plan (FMP) 2014-2023 commits to a review of silvicultural
practices by a panel of independent experts to inform the development of the next FMP …

The value of information for woodland management: updating a state–transition model

WK Morris, MC Runge, PA Vesk - Ecosphere, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Value of information (VOI) analyses reveal the expected benefit of reducing uncertainty to a
decision maker. Most ecological VOI analyses have focused on population models rarely …

[PDF][PDF] Value of information for conservation and natural resource management

WK Morris - 2017 - minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au
The value of information (VOI) is a set of decision theoretic tools that were formulated over
half a century ago. More recently, VOI analysis has been applied to decision problems for …

An overview of the terrestrial invertebrates in the Victorian north central region

NG Collett, AL Yen - Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 2010 - CSIRO Publishing
Invertebrates are the dominant faunal group in most terrestrial habitats. They play important
roles, often incompletely understood, in maintaining essential ecosystem services. Despite …