Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife

by David Lindenmayer, Damian Michael, Mason Crane, Daniel Florance, Emma Burns

Overview

Millions of hectares of temperate woodland and billions of trees have been cleared from Australia’s agricultural landscapes. This has allowed land to be developed for cropping and grazing livestock but has also had significant environmental impacts, including erosion, salinity and loss of native plant and animal species.

Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife focuses on why restoration is important and describes best practice approaches to restore farm woodlands for birds, mammals and reptiles. Based on 19 years of long-term research in temperate agricultural south-eastern Australia, this book addresses practical questions such as what, where and how much to plant, ways to manage plantings and how plantings change over time. It will be a key reference for farmers, natural resource management professionals and policy-makers concerned with revegetation and conservation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781486309665
Publisher:	CSIRO PUBLISHING
Publication date:	10/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

David Lindenmayer is a Professor at The Australian National University. He has worked on the conservation of forests and their wildlife for more than 35 years. He has published 45 books and over 1100 scientific papers, and has broad interests in conservation biology, landscape ecology, vertebrate ecology, forest ecology and woodland conservation. He has received numerous awards and is a member of the Australian Academy of Science and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.

Damian Michael is a Senior Research Officer in Ecology at The Australian National University. He has broad interests in landscape ecology, biodiversity conservation, herpetology and understanding the ecological importance of rocky outcrops in agricultural landscapes. He manages several large-scale biodiversity monitoring programs in New South Wales and has published 90 scientific papers and six books.

Mason Crane has been a field-based research officer with the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU for the last 15 years.

Daniel Florance manages the Australian Government’s Environmental Stewardship Program. Since 2012, he has worked as a research officer at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the ANU.

Emma Burns is a conservation biologist in the Fenner School of Environment and Society and Executive Director of the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) within TERN.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the authors
1 Introduction
2 Why plant?
3 What to plant? The content of plantings
4 How much and where to plant? The size, shape, location and surrounding configuration of plantings
5 Ways to manage plantings
6 How do plantings change over time?
7 Conclusions: creating a whole-of-farm plan and some thoughts on the future
References
Appendix
Index