What did it used to look like? A case study from tall, wet mainland Mountain Ash forests prior to British invasion

D Lindenmayer, C Taylor, E Bowd, P Zylstra - Austral Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There has been extensive commentary about historical First Nations' land management in
Australia, including in tall, wet forests, and therefore their condition at the time of the British …

The choice of path to resilience is crucial to the future of production forests

A Felton, R Seidl, DB Lindenmayer, C Messier… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Resilience in production forests can be achieved through natural ecological processes or
repeated intensive interventions. We caution that 'coerced'resilience derived from intense …

Shifting baselines clarify the impact of contemporary logging on forest‐dependent threatened species

M Ward, K Ashman, DB Lindenmayer… - … Science and Practice, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the importance of protecting forests and woodlands to achieve global climate and
biodiversity goals, logging impacts persist worldwide. Forestry advocates often downplay …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections

DB Lindenmayer, E Bowd, K Youngentob… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Using a 26-year dataset, we quantify temporal change in detections of arboreal marsupial
species in the tall, wet montane ash forests of mainland south-eastern Australia. We sought …

Reply to Comment on 'Self-thinning forest understoreys reduce wildfire risk, even in a warming climate'

PJ Zylstra, DB Lindenmayer… - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Our previous analysis of mapped records of forest fires in National Parks in Southwestern
Australia showed that fires initiated a pulse in flammability (the likelihood of a point being …

[HTML][HTML] Variable persistence of an iconic arboreal mammal through the Black Summer wildfires

RL Goldingay, RJ Bilney, C Dunne - Forest Ecology and Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildfires are predicted to increase in frequency and severity with climate change but
detailed understanding of their influence on forest wildlife is lacking for many species …

Technological solutions for living with fire in the age of megafires

M Yebra, R Mahony, R Debus - One Earth, 2024 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic climate change is driving extreme fire seasons, challenging the effectiveness
of fire management practices developed over the last 50 years. New and diverse strategies …

Framing ecological forestry: applying principles for the restoration of post-production forests

GW Wardell-Johnson, B Schultz… - Pacific Conservation …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Context: Decades of industrial-scale logging have damaged the structure, function, and
composition of Australia's forests; increased the threat from severe fires; and generated …

Mechanisms of forest decline and efficacy of prevention strategies in the Santa Fe Mountains, New Mexico

J Smallwood - 2024 - jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
In recent decades, a rapid escalation of atmospheric drought, coinciding with a global
temperature increase, has resulted in heightened rates of tree mortality attributed to wildfires …

Reconciling fire behaviour science and forest ecology

P Zylstra - Australasian Plant Conservation: Journal of the …, 2024 - search.informit.org
As of 2020, changes to fire regimes, in particular increases in frequency, were a factor in the
threatened status of more than 800 Australian species and 65 ecological communities …