... that provided food for the highly specialised Glossy Black-cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami (pictured). Later logging prescriptions recognised the cockatoo s requirements after it was listed as a threatened species. Terania Creek proposed rainforest logging The lowland subtropical rainforest of Terania Creek...

... of the controversy results from long-running conflicts between the demands of the native forest logging industry and associated impacts on Leadbeater's Possum and its Mountain Ash forest habitat. Here we argue that despite a legislative obligation to protect Leadbeater's Possum and some limited recent improvements...

... reserves (national parks, nature reserves, flora reserves), Informal reserves within State Forests (old growth, river and stream zones, travel route zones and diverse ecotype zones (Dept. of Parks & Wildlife, West Australia 2014), and other management prescriptions. Informal reserves in conjunction...

... and prescriptions that aim to cater for the maintenance of the hollow resource have been adopted by most forest management agencies in Australia. Tasmania s Regional Forest Agreement (Commonwealth of Australia and State of Tasmania 1997) recognises hollow- dependent fauna as a priority fauna group to be protected...

... on shrub-layer canopy cover in the 1-1.5 m height layer, with 76.1 % of the total spool line located under shrub-layer canopy compared to an environmental availability of 18.8 %. Shrubs (particular Tasmannia stipitata and Leptospermum spp.) were the most commonly selected cover type, followed by logs...

... of management objectives and prescriptions to cater for threatened fauna in areas subject to production forestry activities. For management prescriptions to be effective, they must be based on knowledge of the distribution and habitat of the species, as well as the specific threats to the species from land-use...

... includes studies of the impact of disturbances such as logging and fire, the effectiveness of forest management prescriptions, the biodiversity effects of planting native trees on farms and also the ecology of threatened species such as the Hastings River mouse, eastern pygmy possum and koala. For all...

... addressed, and the value of conserving fauna species throughout their range was not canvassed. Further, the density of a species, and the impact of logging and burning operations on density, was not considered. By concentrating on species with a high likelihood of extinction, the RAC shed little light...

... habitat to illustrate the important intersection between forest restoration principles and the general principles for forest biodiversity conservation. Mountain Ash forests have been extensively modified through a century of intensive logging, recurrent wildfires and post-fire salvage logging...

.... Corresponding author: david.lindenmayer@anu.edu.au © 2018 Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 2018 Hollow-bearing trees den sites buffer zones arboreal marsupials logging radio-tracking 464 2018 Introduction Leadbeater s Possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri) is a Critically Endangered...

... refuge under logs, leaflitter or in existing burrows (Lemckert and Brassil 2003). Calling and breeding have been recorded from a wide range of waterbodies . In the Sydney Basin, breeding has been recorded in hanging swamps and ponds forming within sandstone based creeks (Harrison 1922; Mahony 1993; Daly...

... to a species level, especially when employed in a systematic approach. Our case study area at Eden was initially clear-fell logged for woodchips and saw-logs in 1976 with no specific environmental protections in place, excepting retention of alternate coupes in an unlogged state for a 20-30 year period...

..., B. S. 2008. An experimental test of gating derelict mines to conserve bat roost habitat in southeastern Australia. Acta Chiropterologica, 10(2): 367 376, 2008 McLean, C. M. 2012. The effects of fire regimes and logging on forest stand structure, tree hollows and arboreal marsupials in sclerophyll...

... prey are birds, rats, small terrestrial mammals, arboreal mammals, gliding possums, small macropods, reptiles and arthropods. There are no special prescriptions in the harvesting plans which address likely impact on the quolls. It is the undisputed opinion of Dr Dickman that the proposed logging...

...Michael J. Murphy ABSTRACT The majority of studies into the response of birds to logging in Australian forests has been done in forest-dominated landscapes or relatively large forest blocks, where the surrounding landscape can ameliorate impacts. This is the first study to examine the response...

... in Yarrigan State Forest included commercial harvesting of C. glaucophylla for milling, felling of E. crebra for railway sleepers and cutting of various species for domestic firewood. The park was last logged in 2005. Surviving evidence of past forestry activities includes cut tree stumps, logging debris, log...

... influenced occupancy by the gliders, although harvesting is predominantly focused within stands containing Alpine Ash Eucalyptus delegatensis , with monospecific stands generally avoided by the glider. logging black summer disturbance arboreal mammal drought monitoring # Corresponding author...

...) extension for ArcView 3.x. Jenness Enterprises. http://www.jennessent.com/arcview/random_points.htm. http://www.jennessent.com/arcview/random_points.htm Kavanagh, R.P. and Webb, G.A. 1998. Effects of variable-intensity logging on mammals reptiles and amphibians at Waratah Creek, southeastern New...