Old forest, new perspectives—Insights from the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria, south-eastern Australia

Lindenmayer, David B.

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.01.049

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“…While the stand we studied conforms to this assumption, it appears that single cohort forest stands are the exception rather than the rule in old-growth E. regnans forests (Lindenmayer et al, 2000;Lindenmayer, 2009;Turner et al, 2009). Turner et al…”

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confidence: 51%

Age and growth of a fire prone Tasmanian temperate old-growth forest stand dominated by Eucalyptus regnans, the world's tallest angiosperm

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Hua

Allen

et al. 2010

Forest Ecology and Management

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 51%

Age and growth of a fire prone Tasmanian temperate old-growth forest stand dominated by Eucalyptus regnans, the world's tallest angiosperm

Wood

Hua

Allen

et al. 2010

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Early results showed that high- New empirical research showed that patch-matrix assumptions applied to one possum species, but not three others, or to most bird species. Lindenmayer and Lacy (1995), Lindenmayer and Possingham (1995a), Lindenmayer et al (1999a), McCarthy and Lindenmayer (1999), Lindenmayer (2009b) quality possum habitat could be generated by retaining an adequate number of old trees in logging coupes (Lindenmayer et al 1991). However, a strong focus on metapopulation modeling during the early and mid1990s distracted from these initial coupe-level conservation recommendations.…”

Section: Case Study 2: Wet Forests In the Victorian Central Highlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framework to improve the application of theory in ecology and conservation

Driscoll

Lindenmayer

2012

Ecological Monographs

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Ecological theory often fails applied ecologists in three ways: (1) Theory has little predictive value but is nevertheless applied in conservation with a risk of perverse outcomes, (2) individual theories have limited heuristic value for planning and framing research because they are narrowly focused, and (3) theory can lead to poor communication among scientists and hinder scientific progress through inconsistent use of terms and widespread redundancy. New approaches are therefore needed that improve the distillation, communication, and application of ecological theory. We advocate three approaches to resolve these problems: (1) improve prediction by reviewing theory across case studies to develop contingent theory where possible, (2) plan new research using a checklist of phenomena to avoid the narrow heuristic value of individual theories, and (3) improve communication among scientists by rationalizing theory associated with particular phenomena to purge redundancy and by developing definitions for key terms. We explored the extent to which these problems and solutions have been featured in two case studies of long-term ecological research programs in forests and plantations of southeastern Australia. We found that our main contentions were supported regarding the prediction, planning, and communication limitations of ecological theory. We illustrate how inappropriate application of theory can be overcome or avoided by investment in boundary-spanning actions. The case studies also demonstrate how some of our proposed solutions could work, particularly the use of theory in secondary case studies after developing primary case studies without theory. When properly coordinated and implemented through a widely agreed upon and broadly respected international collaboration, the framework that we present will help to speed the progress of ecological research and lead to better conservation decisions.

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“…The average rotation length of a harvested native forest in each region was assumed to be 80 years while the average period between natural disturbance (by wildfire) of an unharvested forest was assumed to average 250 years based on an average fire return time of 100-350 years in tall open forests (Ashton, 1976;Attiwill, 1994;Lindenmayer, 2009). If the regrowth forest is at steady state and the rotation length is 80 years, then that forest will contain a mixture of ages after earlier harvests.…”

Section: Water Usementioning

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Cradle-to-gate inventory of wood production from Australian softwood plantations and native hardwood forests: Embodied energy, water use and other inputs

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England

Raison

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Forest Ecology and Management

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Old forest, new perspectives—Insights from the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria, south-eastern Australia

Cited by 28 publications

References 50 publications

Age and growth of a fire prone Tasmanian temperate old-growth forest stand dominated by Eucalyptus regnans, the world's tallest angiosperm

Age and growth of a fire prone Tasmanian temperate old-growth forest stand dominated by Eucalyptus regnans, the world's tallest angiosperm

Framework to improve the application of theory in ecology and conservation

Cradle-to-gate inventory of wood production from Australian softwood plantations and native hardwood forests: Embodied energy, water use and other inputs

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