Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

L Duncanson, JR Kellner, J Armston, R Dubayah… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne
full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest …

Effective ecosystem monitoring requires a multi‐scaled approach

BD Sparrow, W Edwards, SEM Munroe… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem monitoring is fundamental to our understanding of how ecosystem change is
impacting our natural resources and is vital for developing evidence‐based policy and …

The temperature optima for tree seedling photosynthesis and growth depend on water inputs

DP Kumarathunge, JE Drake, MG Tjoelker… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how tree growth is affected by rising temperature is a key to predicting the
fate of forests in future warmer climates. Increasing temperature has direct effects on plant …

Fire risk and severity decline with stand development in Tasmanian giant Eucalyptus forest

JM Furlaud, LD Prior, GJ Williamson… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Forest fire risk, and how it changes over time, has important influences on forest dynamics.
Two common models describing how fire risk changes with stand development, known as …

Conventional wisdom on roosting behavior of Australian flying‐foxes—A critical review, and evaluation using new data

TJ Lunn, P Eby, R Brooks, H McCallum… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Fruit bats (Family: Pteropodidae) are animals of great ecological and economic
importance, yet their populations are threatened by ongoing habitat loss and human …

A vegetation and soil survey method for surveillance monitoring of rangeland environments

BD Sparrow, JN Foulkes, GM Wardle… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Ecosystem surveillance monitoring is critical to managing natural resources and especially
so under changing environments. Despite this importance, the design and implementation of …

Bioclimatic drivers of fire severity across the Australian geographical range of giant Eucalyptus forests

JM Furlaud, LD Prior, GJ Williamson… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The relationships between productivity, fire frequency and fire severity shape the distribution
of plant communities globally. Dry forests are expected to burn frequently and wet forests to …

Using permanent forest plots to evaluate the resilience to fire of Tasmania's tall wet eucalypt forests

LD Prior, SM Foyster, JM Furlaud, GJ Williamson… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The vulnerability to repeated high severity fires of tall wet eucalypt forests (TWEF) dominated
by obligate seeder species is widely understood. However, 80% of Tasmania's TWEF are …

Tree crown segmentation and species classification in a wet eucalypt forest from airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data

BKV Yadav, A Lucieer, SC Baker… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
To sustainably manage forest biodiversity and monitor changes in species patterning,
mapping the spatial distribution of tree species is indispensable. Remote sensing can …

Measuring a fire. The story of the January 2019 fire told from measurements at the Warra Supersite, Tasmania

T Wardlaw - Fire, 2021 - mdpi.com
Non-stand-replacing wildfires are the most common natural disturbance in the tall eucalypt
forests of Tasmania, yet little is known about the conditions under which these fires burn and …