The effect of edges on the distribution of arboreal marsupials in the ash forests of the Victorian Central Highlands

Nelson, Jenny L.; Cherry, K. A.; Porter, K. W.

doi:10.1080/00049158.1996.10674688

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“…Lindenmayer et al, 1990a;Nelson et al, 1996;Alexander et al, 2002). They showed that numbers of Greater Gliders Petauroides volans and Sugar Gliders Petaurus breviceps related positively to numbers of old trees.…”

Section: Implications For Managementmentioning

confidence: 95%

Designing old forest for the future: Old trees as habitat for birds in forests of Mountain Ash Eucalyptus regnans

Loyn

Kennedy

2009

Forest Ecology and Management

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Section: Implications For Managementmentioning

confidence: 95%

Designing old forest for the future: Old trees as habitat for birds in forests of Mountain Ash Eucalyptus regnans

Loyn

Kennedy

2009

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…If so, a landscape-scale approach to forest management will be required to ensure yellow-bellied glider populations are maintained. Gliders may avoid the use of linear remnants with high contrast edges, but they will use corridors with low contrast edges between mature and regrowth forest (Lindenmayer et al, 1993;Nelson et al, 1996). A network of unlogged forest corridors, between coupes of intensively logged forest, and connected with unlogged, or relatively less intensively logged patches is recommended, as is the retention of grey gum species E. longirostrata and E. biturbinata where they occur in a logging coupe.…”

Section: Management Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Regional habitat selection of large gliding possums at forest stand and landscape scales in southern Queensland, Australia

Eyre¹

2007

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…They also need to extend for several hundred metres on each side of the edge, so that comparisons can be made with areas where edge effects are expected to be minimal. Studies of this sort in montane ash forests have shown that, of the species examined, few showed clear positive or negative effects of transient edges between age classes (Nelson et al 1996;Loyn 1994, 1998 andin prep. ;Incoll et al 2001; van der Ree and Loyn 2002).…”

Section: Edgesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The retrospective approach has been used extensively in Victoria to examine succession and various aspects of scale and pattern in ash forests (e.g. Loyn 1985bLoyn , 1998Macfarlane 1988;Lindenmayer et al 1990aLindenmayer et al , 1999bMilledge et al 1991;Brown and Nelson 1993;Nelson et al 1996;Incoll et al 2001). In mixed eucalypt forests, retrospective studies have focused on basic questions about succession after logging (e.g.…”

Section: Research Approaches To Studies Of Succession Scale and Patternmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The most convincing evidence for edge effects arose where habitat gradients crossed the edges concerned. For example, numbers of old hollow-bearing trees declined progressively from interiors of mature forest into adjacent 1939 regrowth (Nelson et al 1996). This pattern is a consequence of the progressive impact of the severe 1939 fires as they waxed, waned, changed direction, flared or petered out locally in response to local and rapid changes in conditions on the day or night of the fire.…”

Section: Edgesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Research for Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management in Victorian eucalypt forests

Loyn

2004

Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna

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This paper describes some of the research needed to help forest managers achieve Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management. As a case study, it also presents an overview of some of the research conducted to meet those needs in the state of Victoria, and identifies priorities for further research, monitoring and adaptive management. Vertebrate wildlife (mainly birds and mammals) has been a major focus of this review. The main strategic research questions concern the successional effects of logging, the relative merits and costs of integration or segregation and the appropriate scale for spatial integration. Retrospective research is a valuable tool to address some of the key questions, but longitudinal studies (i.e. over time), are also needed. Successional studies have identified hollow-dependent wildlife species and species that feed from open ground among trees as those that are most sensitive to logging. Thinning and control burning may have potential value as tools to modify regrowth forest structure to benefit the latter group, but this new concept needs field-testing. A general focus on hollow-dependent species may have diverted attention from the needs of other groups. A logical scheme is presented for evaluating costs and benefits of spatial integration or segregation in particular cases. The shape of the response curve is crucial in making these evaluations, but this aspect has received little attention. Segregation often has benefits both for wildlife conservation and wood production, but there are exceptions and socioeconomic reasons for developing more integrated systems. Retaining patches of habitat on selected coupes combines some of the benefits of both approaches, and has been introduced on a trial basis in mixed eucalypt forests and ash forests, with associated monitoring. Effects of spatial scale and pattern have been studied in ash forests but more work of this sort is needed in mixed eucalypt forests and box-ironbark forests. Large owls have been used as umbrella species to select areas for special protection based on extensive field surveys, modelling and field-testing. Further monitoring and detailed research is needed to evaluate and refine the effectiveness of this strategy. This approach forms part of a suite of forest planning processes, which increasingly involve community participation. Associated research is needed to help inform debate and decisions in an adaptive management framework.

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The effect of edges on the distribution of arboreal marsupials in the ash forests of the Victorian Central Highlands

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Designing old forest for the future: Old trees as habitat for birds in forests of Mountain Ash Eucalyptus regnans

Designing old forest for the future: Old trees as habitat for birds in forests of Mountain Ash Eucalyptus regnans

Regional habitat selection of large gliding possums at forest stand and landscape scales in southern Queensland, Australia

Research for Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management in Victorian eucalypt forests

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