Managing & Conserving Grassy Woodlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Managing & Conserving Grassy Woodlands write by Susan McIntyre. This book was released on 2004. Managing & Conserving Grassy Woodlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes a set of principles that will enable landholders to maintain or increase productivity without compromising ecological sustainabilty, and at the same time maintaining a substantial proportion of the native flora and fauna. The book provides the technical foundations underpinning the principles.
Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management
Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management write by David Lindenmayer. This book was released on 2010-10-04. Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book summarises the main discoveries, management insights and policy initiatives in the science, management and policy arenas associated with temperate woodlands in Australia. More than 60 of Australia’s leading researchers, policy makers and natural resource managers have contributed to the volume. It features new perspectives on the integration of woodland management and agricultural production, including the latest thinking about whole of paddock restoration and carbon farming, as well as financial and social incentive schemes to promote woodland conservation and management. Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management will be a key supporting aid for farmers, natural resource managers, policy makers, and people involved in NGO landscape restoration and management.
A Guide to Managing Box Gum Grassy Woodlands
A Guide to Managing Box Gum Grassy Woodlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guide to Managing Box Gum Grassy Woodlands write by Kimberlie Rawlings. This book was released on 2010. A Guide to Managing Box Gum Grassy Woodlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This handbook is designed to assist private land managers. It will particularly help those contracted through the Environmental Stewardship Box Gum Grassy Woodland Project to improve the amount and condition of box gum grassy woodland on their properties." - Preface.
Woodlands
Woodlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woodlands write by David Lindenmayer. This book was released on 2005-09-09. Woodlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Australia's little known woodlands once covered huge areas of the eastern side of our continent. Woodlands are distinguished from forests by the fact that their canopies do not touch, tree heights are usually lower and they usually have a grassy understorey. They support a fascinating and diverse array of birds, mammals, reptiles, frogs, invertebrates and plants, and have been under massive pressure from grazing and agriculture over the past 200 years. In many cases only small remnant patches of some types of woodland survive. Understanding and appreciating woodlands is an important way forward for promoting their sustainable management and conservation. Woodlands: A Disappearing Landscape explains with lucid text and spectacular photographs the role that woodlands play in supporting a range of native plants and animals that has existed there for millions of years. The book is set out as a series of logically linked chapters working from the woodland canopy (the tree crowns), through the understorey, the ground layers, and to the lowest lying parts of landscape – wetlands, creeks and dams. Each chapter illustrates many key topics in woodland biology with text and images, explaining important aspects of woodland ecology as well as woodland management and conservation.
Conserving grassy woodland in Tasmania
Conserving grassy woodland in Tasmania - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conserving grassy woodland in Tasmania write by . This book was released on . Conserving grassy woodland in Tasmania available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tasmanian woodlands range from the coast to the climatic treeline, from some of the poorest soils in the world to some of the richest, from waterlogged ground to sharply drained dry ridges. They are unusual in temperate Australia in that they support a full complement of native marsupial herbivores, which can occur in high densities. This chapter covers the subset of these woodlands with understoreys potentially dominated by native grasses and herbs, henceforth called grassy woodlands. These grassy woodlands have been dramatically reduced and degraded in Tasmania (Kirkpatrick et al. 1988), but still cover large areas of private land, largely utilised for wool production (Kirkpatrick et al. 2007) (see map below). They also occur on some smaller areas of public land, largely utilised for recreation and nature conservation. The remaining areas of grassy woodland on both types of tenure are under severe threat as the State Government embarks upon a misguided program to turn the dry Midlands of Tasmania into an irrigated food bowl. One key to the conservation of those grassy woodlands that are fortunate enough to survive lies in a middle path, avoiding both the thinning and thickening of trees. The other key lies in preventing a native grass and herb-dominated understorey from losing significant species or transforming into heath, scrub or vegetation dominated by exotic plants. The prevention of the last of these transitions relates to land-use decisions, and therefore to the economic, social and political context. The other transitions involve ecological interactions between climate, soils, fire regimes and grazing regimes. While climate change cannot be altered in the short term, fire and grazing regimes, two of the most effective vegetation management tools, are fortunately more malleable. The task given for this chapter was to report the conservation implications of ecological and social studies of Tasmanian grassy woodland in which I have been involved. Particular r.
