Wildlife and Woodchips: Leadbeater's Possum : a Test Case for Sustainable ForestryWildlife & Woodchips explores issues at the heart of the logging and woodchipping debate. It outlines the complexities of and solutions to long-term conservation of species. Above all, it presents an in-depth portrait of one of Australia's rarest and most endangered animals, and highlights the need to conserve our natural environment. This book is for general readers interested in environmental and conservation issues, field naturalists, researchers, and those involved in the exploitation and management of the natural environment. It will also provide useful case study material for students and teachers, from high school to university. |
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abundance adult Alpine Ash Andrew Smith animals Ann Jelinek Australian Bass River behaviour BIOCLIM breeding burnt Cambarville cavities Central Highlands clearfelling climatic conditions collapse colonies of Leadbeater's Common Ringtail Possum conservation of Leadbeater's David Lindenmayer diet distribution of Leadbeater's eucalypt extinction Feathertail Glider females fire forest block forest management fossils Greater Glider habitat habitat for Leadbeater's habitat requirements Healesville Healesville Sanctuary Highlands of Victoria hollow trees important insects Leadbeater's Possum Mahogany Glider major marsupials Melbourne montane ash forests Mountain Brushtail Possum nest nest-boxes nest-sites nest-tree north-eastern Victoria Number of hollow O'Shannassy occur old-growth forest patches Petauridae Petaurus populations of Leadbeater's possums and gliders predators Pygmy Possum regrowth forest reserves Shining Gum South Wales species of possums Squirrel Glider stagwatching strategies studies Sugar Glider suitable habitat surveys Table temperature tion trap trees with hollows understorey vegetation Water Catchment wattle trees wildfires Wombeyan Caves wood-production forests Yarra Yellow-bellied Glider
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Page 151 - Senate. (1977). Woodchips and the environment. Report from the Senate Standing Committee on Science and the Environment. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
Page 148 - Westerman M 1992. DNA-DNA hybridisation and the position of Leadbeater's possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri McCoy) in the family Petauridae (Marsupialia: Diprotodontia). Australian Journal of Zoology 40, 563-571.
Page 148 - Bennett, S., Brereton, R., Mansergh, I., Berwick, S., Sandiford, K. and Wellington, C. (1991). The potential effect of the enhanced greenhouse climate change on selected Victorian fauna.
Page 148 - Lindenmayer, DB 1994. The impacts of timber harvesting on arboreal marsupials at different spatial scales and its implications for ecologically sustainable forest use and nature conservation. Australian Journal of Environmental Management 1:56-68.
Page 151 - Lindenmayer, DB, 1996. Wildlife and Woodchips: Leadbeater's Possum as a Test Case for Sustainable Forestry. (University of New South Wales Press: Sydney). Lindenmayer, DB, Tanton, MT and Norton, TW 1990. Leadbeater's Possum- a test case for integrated forestry. Search 21: 156-59. Lindenmayer, DB, Cunningham, RB and Donelly, CF, 1993. The conservation of arboreal mammals in the montane ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria, south-east Australia. IV The distribution and abundance of arboreal...
Page 148 - R. (Ed.), Atlas of Elapid Snakes of Australia. Australian Flora and Fauna Series Number 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, pp. 4-15.
Page 148 - M. (1984). The Australian marsupial radiation. In Vertebrate Zoogeography and Evolution in Australasia, ed.