Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The science of understanding landscape change: setting the scene for the Tumut Fragmentation Study
- 2 The theory: an overview of landscape change and habitat fragmentation
- 3 The field laboratory: the Tumut study area and the vertebrate animals it supports
- 4 Setting up the study: the design and implementation of the main cross-sectional study at Tumut
- 5 The core findings: the effects of landscape context on animals and plants
- 6 Patch use: how animals use patches of remnant eucalypt forest surrounded by pine
- 7 Theory against data: testing ecological theories and concepts
- 8 Testing PVA models with real data: melding demographic work with population modelling
- 9 Genes in the landscape: integrating genetic and demographic analyses
- 10 Refining and extending the research programme: additional studies at Tumut (and nearby) that build on the Fragmentation Study
- 11 Recommendations for plantation managers: implications for biodiversity and conservation in plantations
- 12 Lessons on running large-scale research studies: some insights from running the Tumut Fragmentation Study and directions for the future
- Appendix 1 List of collaborators/contributors to the Tumut Fragmentation Experiment
- Appendix 2 Detections of bird species in the Tumut Fragmentation Study classified by four broad classes of sites
- References
- Index
11 - Recommendations for plantation managers: implications for biodiversity and conservation in plantations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The science of understanding landscape change: setting the scene for the Tumut Fragmentation Study
- 2 The theory: an overview of landscape change and habitat fragmentation
- 3 The field laboratory: the Tumut study area and the vertebrate animals it supports
- 4 Setting up the study: the design and implementation of the main cross-sectional study at Tumut
- 5 The core findings: the effects of landscape context on animals and plants
- 6 Patch use: how animals use patches of remnant eucalypt forest surrounded by pine
- 7 Theory against data: testing ecological theories and concepts
- 8 Testing PVA models with real data: melding demographic work with population modelling
- 9 Genes in the landscape: integrating genetic and demographic analyses
- 10 Refining and extending the research programme: additional studies at Tumut (and nearby) that build on the Fragmentation Study
- 11 Recommendations for plantation managers: implications for biodiversity and conservation in plantations
- 12 Lessons on running large-scale research studies: some insights from running the Tumut Fragmentation Study and directions for the future
- Appendix 1 List of collaborators/contributors to the Tumut Fragmentation Experiment
- Appendix 2 Detections of bird species in the Tumut Fragmentation Study classified by four broad classes of sites
- References
- Index
Summary
The preceding chapters have highlighted the extensive and diverse body of scientific research that has taken place at Tumut over the past 12 years. The work was originally intended as a largely theoretical landscape ecology and conservation biology study, primarily focused on quantifying landscape context effects on biota (see Chapters 4 and 5). However, as the research programme has progressed, it has become increasingly clear that the findings from the research at Tumut (as well as those from the nearby Nanangroe area; Lindenmayer et al., 2008b; see also Chapter 10) have implications for biodiversity conservation in plantation landscapes. Some of these lessons might apply not only elsewhere in Australia (Lindenmayer and Hobbs, 2004; Salt et al., 2004), but also in the extensive areas of plantation elsewhere in the world. This chapter briefly outlines a set of recommendations arising from the Tumut research that aim to improve conservation management practices within plantations.
The significance of plantation expansion as a form of landscape change
Around the world, large-scale landscape change resulting from human land use (UNEP, 1999) is a major driver of altered ecosystem processes (McIntyre and Hobbs, 1999; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005) and biodiversity loss (Sala et al., 2000; Lindenmayer and Fischer, 2006).
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- Large-Scale Landscape ExperimentsLessons from Tumut, pp. 225 - 234Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009