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 …

A review of Australian tree fern ecology in forest communities

S Donoghue, PAM Turner - Austral Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Australian forest ecosystems cover almost 16% of Australia's landmass. As the seventh‐
largest forested area worldwide, these forest ecosystems have largely evolved in the face of …

Differing regeneration patterns after catastrophic fire and clearfelling: Implications for future stand dynamics and forest management

R Trouvé, RM Sherriff, LM Holt, PJ Baker - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Silvicultural systems in native forests typically attempt to mimic natural disturbance regimes
to ensure that the dominant tree species and associated biodiversity persist. Where the …

Concurrent assessment of functional types in extant vegetation and soil seed banks informs environmental constraints and mechanisms of plant community turnover in …

S Kasel, CR Nitschke, SC Baker, EC Pryde - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Our understanding of how environmental heterogeneity shapes plant community dynamics
is largely based on above-ground diversity despite the importance of seed banks as …

What did it used to look like? A case study from tall, wet mainland Mountain Ash forests prior to British invasion

D Lindenmayer, C Taylor, E Bowd, P Zylstra - Austral Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There has been extensive commentary about historical First Nations' land management in
Australia, including in tall, wet forests, and therefore their condition at the time of the British …

Distribution and morphological variation of tree ferns (Cyatheaceae) along an elevation gradient

G Merino, S Ramírez-Barahona, ME Olson… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Knowing how species and communities respond to environmental change is fundamental in
the context of climate change. The search for patterns of abundance and phenotypic …

Identifying Old-Growth Forests in Complex Landscapes: A New LiDAR-Based Estimation Framework and Conservation Implications

R Trouvé, R Jiang, PJ Baker, S Kasel, CR Nitschke - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Old-growth forests provide many ecosystem services and benefits. However, they are
becoming increasingly rare and thus are an urgent priority for conservation. Accurately …

The case for listing Mountain Ash forests in the Central Highlands of Victoria as a Threatened Ecological Community

D Lindenmayer, C Taylor, E Bowd… - Pacific Conservation …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Thousands of species have been recognised as being at risk of extinction in formal
listing processes such as those under the International Union for Conservation of Nature …

Spatial and temporal dynamics of habitat availability and stability for a critically endangered arboreal marsupial: implications for conservation planning in a fire-prone …

CR Nitschke, R Trouvé, LF Lumsden, LT Bennett… - Landscape …, 2020 - Springer
Context Effective conservation planning for species depends on vegetation models that can
capture the dynamics of habitat elements across both spatial and temporal domains …

Predictive ecosystem mapping of south-eastern Australian temperate forests using lidar-derived structural profiles and species distribution models

M Fedrigo, SB Stewart, SH Roxburgh, S Kasel… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Modern approaches to predictive ecosystem mapping (PEM) have not thoroughly explored
the use of 'characteristic'gradients, which describe vegetation structure (eg, light detection …