Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Forest Refugia; Chapter 2: Defining Forest Refugia for Arboreal Marsupials; Chapter 3: Local Extinction or Persistence of Mountain Ash due to Fire Regimes; Chapter 4: Environmental Controls on Vegetation Structure and Fire Regimes; Chapter 5: Climate and Fire in the Central Highlands of Victoria; Chapter 6: Future of Refugia in Mountain Ash Forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria; Appendix 1: Spatial Database Development; Appendix 2: Spatial Climate Models; References; Index
Summary
The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic regimes that have hitherto been unknown. In addition, multiple use forestry - where forests are managed to provide for both a supply of wood and the conservation of biodiversity - can change the floristic composition and vegetation structure of forests with significant implications for wildlife habitat. Wildlife, fire and future climate: a forest ecosys
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-185) and index
