Assessing reserve effectiveness: Application to a threatened species in a dynamic fire prone forest landscape

Todd, Charles R.; Lindenmayer, David B.; Stamation, Kasey; Acevedo-Cattaneo, Silvana; Smith, Stephen; Lumsden, Linda F.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.07.021

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“…For example, the package of conservation strategies in the Victorian Government's Leadbeater's Possum Advisory Group Technical Report was limited to a maximum combined reduction of 5% in sustained yield (Leadbeater's Possum Advisory Group 2014a). This automatically precluded the most effective strategy of establishing a large formally protected area (Todd et al 2016;Taylor et al 2017) where some of the key processes threatening Leadbeater's Possum could be excluded or their effects reduced. The effectiveness and necessity of an expanded ecological reserve system has been demonstrated through work led by Victorian Government scientists (Todd et al 2016) and others (Taylor et al 2017).…”

Section: Failure To Consider the Key Science On Effective Conservatiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Failing to conserve Leadbeater's Possum and its Mountain Ash forest habitat

Blair

Lindenmayer

McBurney

2018

Australian Zoologist

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Section: Failure To Consider the Key Science On Effective Conservatiomentioning

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Failing to conserve Leadbeater's Possum and its Mountain Ash forest habitat

Blair

Lindenmayer

McBurney

2018

Australian Zoologist

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“…) but also to prevent the extinction of critically endangered species like Leadbeater's possum ( Gymnobelideus leadbeateri ) (Todd et al. ; Taylor et al. ).…”

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“…The Mountain Ash ecosystem supports some of the tallest flowering plants on Earth but is at high risk of ecosystem collapse based on IUCN Red List ecosystem assessment criteria (Burns et al 2015). An expanded reserve system is critical not only for the maintenance of the ecosystem (Burns et al 2015) but also to prevent the extinction of critically endangered species like Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) (Todd et al 2016;Taylor et al 2017). There are also economic, employment, water-production, and carbon-storage arguments that favor expansion of protected areas (Keith et al 2016(Keith et al , 2017.…”

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Countering resistance to protected‐area extension

Lindenmayer

Thorn

Noss

2018

Conservation Biology

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The establishment of protected areas is a critical strategy for conserving biodiversity. Key policy directives like the Aichi targets seek to expand protected areas to 17% of Earth's land surface, with calls by some conservation biologists for much more. However, in places such as the United States, Germany, and Australia, attempts to increase protected areas are meeting strong resistance from communities, industry groups, and governments. We examined case studies of such resistance in Victoria, Australia, Bavaria, Germany, and Florida, United States. We considered 4 ways to tackle this problem. First, broaden the case for protected areas beyond nature conservation to include economic, human health, and other benefits, and translate these into a persuasive business case for protected areas. Second, better communicate the conservation values of protected areas. This should include highlighting how many species, communities, and ecosystems have been conserved by protected areas and the counterfactual (i.e., what would have been lost without protected area establishment). Third, consider zoning of activities to ensure the maintenance of effective management. Finally, remind citizens to think about conservation when they vote, including holding politicians accountable for their environmental promises. Without tackling resistance to expanding the protected estate, it will be impossible to reach conservation targets, and this will undermine attempts to stem the global extinction crisis.

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“…Forests are dynamic environments subject to disturbances that can alter stand characteristics, such as stand structural complexity and plant species composition, as well as modify spatial patterns of stand age across a landscape (Lindenmayer and Franklin 2002, Frelich 2005, Ritchie 2010, Pulsford et al 2016, Thom and Seidl 2016, Seidl et al 2018. Indeed, disturbance regimes often drive changes in the amount and configuration of suitable habitat in a landscape (Clarke 2008, Clavero et al 2011, Farnsworth et al 2014, Kelly et al 2016, the spatial patterns of abundance of species (Nimmo et al 2013, Maravalhas and Vasconcelos 2014, Sitters et al 2014, and the viability of populations of forestdependent taxa (Todd et al 2016, Taylor et al 2017). However, quantifying the landscape-scale response of biodiversity to disturbances such as fire and logging is challenging for several reasons.…”

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Spatiotemporal effects of logging and fire on tall, wet temperate eucalypt forest birds

Lindenmayer

Blanchard

Blair

et al. 2019

Ecological Applications

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Forests globally are subject to disturbances such as logging and fire that create complex temporal variation in spatial patterns of forest cover and stand age. However, investigations that quantify temporal changes in biodiversity in response to multiple forms of disturbance in space and time are relatively uncommon. Over a 10-yr period, we investigated the response of bird species to spatiotemporal changes in forest cover associated with logging and wildfire in the mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forests of southeastern Australia. Specifically, we examined how bird occurrence changed with shifts in the proportion of area burned or logged in a 4.5 km radius surrounding our 88 long-term field survey sites, each measuring 1 ha in size. Overall species richness was greatest in older forest patches, but declined as the amount of fire around each site increased. At the individual species level, 31 of the 37 bird species we modeled exhibited a negative response to the amount of fire in the surrounding landscape, while one species responded positively to fire. Only nine species exhibited signs of recovery in the 6 yr of surveys following the fire. Five species were more likely to be detected as the proportion of logged forest surrounding a site increased, suggesting a possible "concentration effect" with displaced birds moving into unlogged areas following harvesting of adjacent areas. We also identified relationships between the coefficients of life history attributes and spatiotemporal changes in forest cover and stand age. Large-bodied birds and migratory species were associated with landscapes subject to large amounts of fire in 2009. There were associations between old growth stands and small-bodied bird species and species that were not insectivores. Our study shows that birds in mountain ash forests are strongly associated with old growth stands and exhibit complex, timedependent, and species-specific responses to landscape disturbance. Despite logging and fire both being high-severity perturbations, no bird species exhibited similar responses to fire and logging in the landscape surrounding our sites. Thus, species responses to one kind of landscapescale disturbance are not readily predictable based on an understanding of the responses to another kind of (albeit superficially similar) disturbance.

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Assessing reserve effectiveness: Application to a threatened species in a dynamic fire prone forest landscape

Cited by 33 publications

References 55 publications

Failing to conserve Leadbeater's Possum and its Mountain Ash forest habitat

Failing to conserve Leadbeater's Possum and its Mountain Ash forest habitat

Countering resistance to protected‐area extension

Spatiotemporal effects of logging and fire on tall, wet temperate eucalypt forest birds

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