Download or read book A Review of Long term Ecological Monitoring in Tasmanian Forests written by Robert J. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effective Ecological Monitoring written by Gene Likens and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist. The book has been fully revised and updated but remains concise, illustrating key aspects of effective monitoring with case studies and examples. It includes new sections comparing surveillance-based and question-based monitoring, analysing environmental observation networks, and provides examples of adaptive monitoring. Based on the authors’ 80 years of collective experience in running long-term research and monitoring programs, Effective Ecological Monitoring is a valuable resource for the natural resource management, ecological and environmental science and policy communities.
Download or read book Biodiversity and Environmental Change written by Emma Burns and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Long-term ecological data are critical for informing long-term trends in biodiversity and trends in environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN). This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment and/or in biodiversity that have occurred in different ecosystems, ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment and biodiversity in Australia.
Download or read book Tasforests written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tasforests written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tropical Fire Ecology written by Mark Cochrane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropics are home to most of the world’s biodiversity and are currently the frontier for human settlement. Tropical ecosystems are being converted to agricultural and other land uses at unprecedented rates. Land conversion and maintenance almost always rely on fire and, because of this, fire is now more prevalent in the tropics than anywhere else on Earth. Despite pervasive fire, human settlement and threatened biodiversity, there is little comprehensive information available on fire and its effects in tropical ecosystems. Tropical deforestation, especially in rainforests, has been widely documented for many years. Forests are cut down and allowed to dry before being burned to remove biomass and release nutrients to grow crops. However, fires do not always stop at the borders of cleared forests. Tremendously damaging fires are increasingly spreading into forests that were never evolutionarily prepared for wild fires. The largest fires on the planet in recent decades have occurred in tropical forests and burned millions of hectares in several countries. The numerous ecosystems of the tropics have differing levels of fire resistance, resilience or dependence. At present, there is little appreciation of the seriousness of the wild fire situation in tropical rainforests but there is even less understanding of the role that fire plays in the ecology of many fire adapted tropical ecosystems, such as savannas, grasslands and other forest types.
Download or read book Practical Conservation Biology written by David Lindenmayer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2005 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in conservation biology and natural resource management by covering the complete array of topics central to these fields. Lindenmayer from ANU, ACT and Burgman from University of Melbourne, Vic.
Download or read book Long term Conservation of Vegetation and Wildlife in Tasmanian State Forests written by Helen Lucie Statham and published by . This book was released on 198? with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forest Pattern and Ecological Process written by David Lindenmayer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or endangered species. It draws together major insights based on over 170 published scientific papers and books, offering a previously unrecognised set of perspectives of how forests function. The book combines key strands of research on wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management. It is divided into seven sections: introduction and background; forest cover and the composition of the forest; the structure of the forest; animal occurrence; disturbance regimes; forest management; and overview and future directions. Illustrated with more than 200 photographs and line drawings, Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is an essential reference for forest researchers, resource managers, conservation and wildlife biologists, ornithologists and mammalogists, and policy makers, as well as general readers with interests in wildlife and forests. Features: * The extent of synthesis at a range of key levels * The depth of new perspectives on forest processes and ecological patterns in one of the world's truly great forests - the montane ash forests * The breadth of past and very current research that is both pure and applied * The range of key topics and how they are inter-twined - wildfires, biodiversity conservation, logging, conservation management, climate change and basic forest ecology and management
Download or read book Ten Commitments Revisited written by Steve Morton and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment? In this follow up to the highly successful book Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, Australia’s leading environmental thinkers have written provocative chapters on what must be done to tackle Australia's environmental problems – in terms of policies, on-ground actions and research. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the 10 key tasks that need to be addressed in a given field, and then each issue is discussed in more detail. Chapters are grouped into ecosystems, sectors and cross-cutting themes. Topics include: deserts, rangelands, temperate eucalypt woodlands, tropical savanna landscapes, urban settlements, forestry management , tropical and temperate marine ecosystems, tropical rainforests, alpine ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems, coasts, islands, soils, fisheries, agriculture, mining, grazing, tourism, industry and manufacturing, protected areas, Indigenous land and sea management, climate change, water, biodiversity, population, human health, fire, energy and more. Ten Commitments Revisited is a must read for politicians, policy makers, decision makers, practitioners and others with an interest in Australia’s environment.
Download or read book Insect Biodiversity and Dead Wood written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In August 2004, the city of Brisbane, Australia, was host to one of the largest recent gatherings of the world's entomologists. Several thousand delegates attended the 22nd International Congress of Entomology, which featured a multitude of symposia that together covered a wide range of entomology-related topics. This special General Technical Report is based on papers presented in a symposium entitled 'Insect Biodiversity and Dead Wood.' It features contributions by scientists from around the world, and these contributions clearly illustrate our growing understanding of the entomological importance of dead wood.
Download or read book Pest Risk Assessment of the Importation Into the United States of Unprocessed Logs and Chips of Eighteen Eucalypt Species from Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oceanography and Marine Biology written by R. N. Gibson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most cited sources in marine science, this Golden Anniversary Edition provides an authoritative review, summarizing the results of current research in oceanography and marine biology. This essential reference for research workers and students in all fields of marine science covers basic areas of marine research as well as subjects of special and topical importance. Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, this volume presents excellent coverage and quality in the papers presented.
Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.
Download or read book Australian Forestry written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vanishing Forests written by Richard Jones and published by Hobart : Environmental Law Reform Group, University of Tasmania. This book was released on 1975 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey and Analytical Methods for Long Term Monitoring of Wildlife Metacommunities in California Montane Forests written by Brett Jonathan Furnas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term, large-scale monitoring of wildlife metacommunities is needed to recognize population declines early enough to identify environmental stressors and facilitate adaptive planning. Potential outcomes include information supporting the designation of new species of conservation concern, or better yet, conservation actions that avert the need for conferring critical statuses. By surveying multiple species, declines of individual species need not be considered in isolation, but can be compared to responses of other species in the metacommunity. However, multi-species monitoring presents a variety of new challenges in terms of appropriate survey methods and analytical techniques for drawing valid ecological inferences. In this study, I investigated several related aspects of multi-species monitoring. One theme was the role of automated survey methods (e.g., audio recorders and camera stations) that leave a permanent record and easily provide for temporal replication of surveys. I applied occupancy models to repeat surveys for addressing detection probability and providing unbiased estimates of species occurrence. Lastly, I evaluated several novel quantitative methods for comparing community properties using monitoring data. In the first chapter I considered the effectiveness of automated recorders for monitoring common birds in California forests. I applied single-species occupancy models to 46 species using 5 years of monitoring data in which automated recorders were placed at 453 random sites across a 5.4-million-ha northern California study area. The devices were programmed to record sounds during up to 3 surveys each morning on 3 consecutive days during the breeding season when songbirds were singing from territories. Skilled interpreters reviewed these recordings to identify all species heard during each survey. With Monte Carlo simulation and results from occupancy models, I demonstrated 80% power for monitoring declines as small as 2.5% per year over 20 years for 32 species given a sampling effort of 100 new sites per year. I also determined an effective survey area radius of 30 m to 50 m for automated recorders, and showed that the devices provided similar occupancy estimates as traditional point counts despite lower survey-level detection probability. In the second chapter I applied multi-species occupancy models to the calculation of biodiversity indices describing metacommunity organization. I used the same automated recorder data set for birds from Chapter One. Specifically, I applied simulation and Bayesian hierarchical models to demonstrate how a failure to address detection probability heterogeneity underestimates the evenness of species occupancy distributions. In models of the bird data I found that a number of species traits (migration, foraging guild, territoriality, body size) were informative in explaining detection probability. By pooling information from common species in a multi-species model, I was able to draw stronger inferences about rarer species than by modeling these species individually. Lastly, I illustrated the ecological significance of species-traits modeling and found that warbler and woodpecker occupancies were evener than for sparrows. In the third chapter, I proposed a new quantitative method for comparing species abundance distributions. I illustrated this method using avian point count surveys from 4 research forests in California. I applied bootstrap resampling to probabilistically compare the abundances of intermediate ranks among and within species abundance distributions. I found higher abundances of intermediately-common species on 2 of the forests, and ascribed this finding to differences in forest productivity and habitat complexity leading to greater niche partitioning of resources. At the metacommunity-level, I found higher abundances of intermediately-common species for neotropical migrants compared to resident birds. . In the fourth chapter, I considered the use of baited camera stations for monitoring Pacific fisher (Pekania pennant pacifica) and other mammals. Cameras were placed at 172 randomly selected forest sites across 2.8 million ha of northwestern California. The duration of each survey was 2 to 4 weeks. I estimated regional occupancy from these data at 2 survey scales (e.g., individual sites [0.465] and pairs of sites 1.6 km apart [0.651]). I also demonstrated 80% power for monitoring declines as small as 2.0% per year over 20 years given a sampling effort of 100 new sites per year. Lastly, I calculated the median latency to first detection for 13 other species of mammals detected at > 5% of sites, showed that latency was
