Conserving forest biodiversity across multiple land ownerships: Lessons from the Northwest Forest Plan and the Southeast Queensland regional forests agreement (Australia)

Long term thinning and logging in Australian cypress pine forest: Changes in habitat attributes and response of fauna

“…Craig, 2002;Eyre, 2006;Lemckert, 2011;Webala et al, 2011). These studies have helped elucidate the effects of logging on fauna and contribute to the continued refinement of principles and practice of ecological sustainable forest management in Australia (McAlpine et al, 2007). However, despite the extensive use of thinning as a silvicultural technique throughout Australia's production forests, there is a paucity of studies that investigate the impacts of thinning activities upon fauna.…”

“…United Nations REDD+ program), national and sub-national levels. Often, forest policy change can be rapid, even when understanding of faunal responses to alternative management approaches is limited (McAlpine et al, 2007).…”

New regionalism and nature conservation: Lessons from South East Queensland, Australia

“…However, the lack of effective conservation planning and the Region's focus on economic development has resulted in sprawling urban and rural residential areas and the loss of biodiversity, especially in areas of high development pressure on the more gently sloping coastal lowlands (Catterall and Kingston, 1993;Catterall et al, 1996Catterall et al, , 1997. The conservation reserve system, like most others in the world (Pressey, 1994), also does not effectively represent or protect the biodiversity within the Region (McAlpine et al, 2005;McAlpine et al, 2007).…”

Effects of forest management on structural features important for biodiversity in mixed-age hardwood forests in Australia's subtropics

“…In Queensland, the shift towards sustainable forest management has tended to focus on impacts from timber harvesting, while affects on habitat features from other sources of forest disturbance such as grazing and fire have received relatively little attention (McAlpine et al, 2006). Low-intensity stock grazing and associated frequent, low-intensity prescribed burning have been shown to be the most influential factors upon understorey structure in some production forest systems (Belsky and Blumenthal, 1997;Henderson and Keith, 2002;Tasker and Bradstock, 2006).…”