19. Ecological History has Present and Future Ecological Consequences – Case Studies from Australia

  1. John A. Wiens2,3,
  2. Gregory D. Hayward4,5,
  3. Hugh D. Safford6,7,
  4. Catherine M. Giffen8
  1. David Lindenmayer

Published Online: 8 JUL 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781118329726.ch19

Book Title

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

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Lindenmayer, D. (2012) Ecological History has Present and Future Ecological Consequences – Case Studies from Australia, in Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management (eds J. A. Wiens, G. D. Hayward, H. D. Safford and C. M. Giffen), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118329726.ch19

Editor Information

  1. 2

    PRBO Conservation Science, 3820 Cypress Dr #11, Petaluma, CA 94954, USA

  2. 3

    School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 2006, Australia

  3. 4

    USDA Forest Service, Alaska Region, 3301 C Street, Anchorage, AK 99504, USA

  4. 5

    USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Lakewood, CO 80401, USA

  5. 6

    USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Vallejo, CA 94592, USA

  6. 7

    Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

  7. 8

    USDA Forest Service, National Office Washington, DC, USA

Author Information

  1. Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 8 JUL 2012
  2. Published Print: 10 AUG 2012

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781444337921

Online ISBN: 9781118329726

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Keywords:

  • ecological history, present and future consequences, case studies from Australia;
  • wet ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria, southeastern Australia;
  • wildfire, logging and biodiversity, interlinked through ecological history;
  • montane ash forests, and natural disturbance regimes;
  • wildfires, stand-replacing or partial in montane, leaving biological legacies;
  • stands, and highest species richness of arboreal marsupials;
  • ecological history and post-disturbance forest management;
  • clear-cutting and postfire salvage, spatial distribution and biological legacies;
  • Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, fire, as key ecological process;
  • fire management and biodiversity conservation, critical for Booderee National Park

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Case Study #1 - The Wet Ash Forests of Victoria, Southeastern Australia

  • Case Study #2 - Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, Southeastern Australia

  • Concluding Comments

  • Acknowledgments

  • References

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