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Prior disturbance legacy effects on plant recovery post‐high‐severity wildfire

Ecosphere, 2021
Large, high‐severity wildfires are an important component of disturbance regimes around the world and can influence the structure and function of forest ecosystems.
Elle J. Bowd, David P. Blair, David B. Lindenmayer   +2 more
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Performance of GEDI Space-Borne LiDAR for Quantifying Structural Variation in the Temperate Forests of South-Eastern Australia

Remote Sensing, 2022
Monitoring forest structural properties is critical for a range of applications because structure is key to understanding and quantifying forest biophysical functioning, including stand dynamics, evapotranspiration, habitat, and recovery from ...
Sonam Dhargay, Christopher S. Lyell, Tegan P. Brown, Assaf Inbar, Gary J. Sheridan, Patrick N. J. Lane   +5 more
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Calculation of wood volume and stem taper using terrestrial single-image close-range photogrammetry and contemporary software tools

Silva Fennica, 2003
A method of estimating trunk and branch volumes of single trees is presented that uses a combination of elementary field measurements, terrestrial photography, image rectification and on-screen digitising using commercial software packages and ...
Dean, Christopher
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Interacting factors driving a major loss of large trees with cavities in a forest ecosystem. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Large trees with cavities provide critical ecological functions in forests worldwide, including vital nesting and denning resources for many species. However, many ecosystems are experiencing increasingly rapid loss of large trees or a failure to recruit
David B Lindenmayer, Wade Blanchard, Lachlan McBurney, David Blair, Sam Banks, Gene E Likens, Jerry F Franklin, William F Laurance, John A R Stein, Philip Gibbons   +9 more
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Critical Ecological Roles, Structural Attributes and Conservation of Old Growth Forest: Lessons From a Case Study of Australian Mountain Ash Forests

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Old growth is a critical growth stage in many forest types globally. It has many key ecological roles including biodiversity conservation, carbon storage and the provision of services such as water production.
David Lindenmayer, Elle Bowd
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Empirical relationships between tree fall and landscape-level amounts of logging and fire. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Large old trees are critically important keystone structures in forest ecosystems globally. Populations of these trees are also in rapid decline in many forest ecosystems, making it important to quantify the factors that influence their dynamics at ...
David B Lindenmayer, Wade Blanchard, David Blair, Lachlan McBurney, John Stein, Sam C Banks   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variable retention harvesting in Victoria’s Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) forests (southeastern Australia)

Ecological Processes, 2019
Variable retention harvesting is a silvicultural system that focuses on retaining key elements of stand structure at the time of logging and is increasingly being used worldwide. We describe the design and establishment of a variable retention harvesting
David Lindenmayer, David Blair, Lachlan McBurney   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Tree Detection Algorithms to Predict Stand Sapwood Area, Basal Area and Stocking Density in Eucalyptus regnans Forest

Remote Sensing, 2015
Managers of forested water supply catchments require efficient and accurate methods to quantify changes in forest water use due to changes in forest structure and density after disturbance. Using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data with as few as 0.
Dominik Jaskierniak, George Kuczera, Richard Benyon, Luke Wallace   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feeding ecology of Australian Christmas beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae): Implications for conservation and habitat management

Austral Entomology, Volume 65, Issue 2, May 2026.
Abstract Christmas beetles (subfamily Rutelinae, genera Anoplognathus, Calloodes and Repsimus) are an ecologically important and culturally significant group of Australian scarabs, known for their striking appearance and seasonal mass emergences. Over the last decade, anecdotal reports suggest widespread population declines, raising concerns about ...
Tanya Latty, Hauke Koch, Chris A. M. Reid, James R. M. Bickerstaff   +3 more
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Plantation species-specific adjustment functions for the Forest Carbon Predictor in New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science, 2018
Background New Zealand’s planted forest area is dominated by radiata pine (90%), but also includes Douglas-fir (6%), and a range of minor species including eucalypts and cypress.
Peter N. Beets, Mark O. Kimberley, Graeme R. Oliver, Stephen H. Pearce, J. Doug Graham, David Henley, Dean F. Meason   +6 more
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