Chapter 1. Forest Refugia -- Forest Conservation: A Burning Question -- Chapter 2. Defining Forest Refugia for Arboreal Marsupials -- Origin of the Term 'Refugia' -- Threatening Processes -- Habitat Requirements of Arboreal Marsupials -- Importance of Forest Structure to Habitat -- Some Working Hypotheses -- Chapter 3. Local Extinction or Persistence of Mountain Ash due to Fire Regimes -- Mortality of Trees -- Estimating Mean Fire Interval: Methods -- Persistence of Mountain Ash -- Estimating Mean Fire Interval: Results -- Chapter 4. Environmental Controls on Vegetation Structure and Fire Regimes -- Overview of Methods -- Site-based Plot Analyses -- Mapped Vegetation Analysis -- Spatial Models of Potential Refugia -- Chapter 5. Climate and Fire in the Central Highlands of Victoria -- Overview of Dominant Climatic Processes -- Climate Record -- Linking Weather and Fire -- Future Climate Scenarios -- Chapter 6. Future of Refugia in Mountain Ash Forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria -- Do Refugia Exist? -- Implications for Forest Management -- New Silvicultural Practices in Mountain Ash Forests -- Policy Implications -- Implications for Modelling and Data Shortages -- Appendix 1. Spatial Database Development -- Digital Elevation Model (DEM) -- Terrain and Hydrological Attributes (TAPES_G) -- Compound Terrain Index (TWI) -- Solar Radiation Attributes (SRAD) -- Meso-scaled Climatic Data -- Site-based Field Data -- Appendix 2. Spatial Climate Models -- Fitting Climate Surfaces -- Data Quality Considerations -- Using the Climate Surfaces
Summary
The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. This volume explores these themes through a landscape-wide study of refugia and future climate in the tall, wet forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria
Analysis
Victoria
Forestry
Bushfires
Environmental management
Ecosystems
Greenhouse effect
Case studies
Federal issue
State issue
Central Highlands (Vic)
Management of land & natural resources (Victoria,Australia ) Pollution & threats to the environment
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 166-185
Notes
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