Biodiversity (Project 4.2)

The biodiversity project operates within the following context:

Maintaining or enhancing biodiversity values is increasingly important to communities.
There is an increasing need to predict and monitor biodiversity responses against baseline criteria for planning, legislative and forest certification requirements.
Development and monitoring of integrated strategies for pest management is an important sustainability criterion.

Research areas of the biodiversity project are:

monitoring and management of biodiversity in forest landscapes
gene pool management
sustainable management of key pests and diseases.

Outputs of the biodiversity project are:

strategies, prescriptions and tools, including monitoring procedures, to sustain or enhance biodiversity values
protocols for sustainable management of key pests and pathogens.

Research activity of the biodiversity project is coordinated by Professor Brad Potts, and research is conducted at:

University of Tasmania
Forest Practices Authority, Tasmania
Forestry Tasmania
University of Melbourne, Victoria
Murdoch University, Western Australia
Southern Cross University, New South Wales.

Scholarship opportunities

For an overview of scholarship opportunities with the Trees in the Landscape research program, click here.

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Links

012. Australian Geographic supports endangered Tasmanian owl research
http://www.utas.edu.au/events/Media%20Releases/2008/masked_owl.pdf
Media release 21 April 2008

Bush Telegraph - ancient bluegums
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/bth_20080505.mp3
CRC for Forestry PhD student Rebecca Jones from the University of Tasmania's School of Plant Science featured on Radio National's Bush Telegraph on Monday 5 May 2008. Follow this link to download the full programme (featuring Rebecca at approx. 30 minutes).

IUFRO News 3, 2008
http://www.iufro.org/publications/view/article/188/3778/

Old Forests New Management conference
http://www.oldforests.com.au
Conservation and use of old-growth forests in the 21st century - an international scientific conference held in Hobart from 17 to 21 February 2008. Hosted by the CRC for Forestry, Forestry Tasmania and the International Union of Forest Research Organisations

Documents

document 013. South Australian bluegums thousands of years old
Media release 25 April 2008 [pdf 42.6 kb]

document Technical Report 163: Churchill, K and Grosse, P (2006)
An evaluation of species trials and methods of tree establishment in the Southern Midlands of Tasmania. [pdf 1.1 Mb]

document Technical Report 175 - Grove SJ (2007)
Workshop report - old trees and the development of coarse woody debris in cool temperate eucalypt forests: A synthesis of recent research in a conservation management context. 20 pp. [pdf 18.4 Mb]

document Technical Report 177 (for TCFA) - Wiggins et al (2008)
Do all possums show the same aversions for genetically resistant seedling stock? Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement report (TCFA: Research into Alternatives to 1080 Programme). By NL Wiggins, JM O’Reilly-Wapstra, SM Paterson, BM Potts. [pdf 275.5 kb]