Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management

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Edited by: David Lindenmayer, Andrew Bennett, Richard Hobbs

eBook - October 2010 - eRetailers

Summarises key insights in the science, management and policy arenas associated with Australian temperate woodlands.

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. + Full description

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.

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"This book will be useful, not only for Australian readers but also for people across the world who are interested in the application of practices of woodland conservation and management."
Juan Agustin Alvarez, Biological Conservation, Vol. 144 (2011), p.1776

"Temperate Woodland Conservation and Management is an excellent book, primarily because it offers the unique insights of a large number of patently committed and passionate ecologists, restorationists, conservationists, natural resource managers and policy makers.

I would recommend this book highly. It is bound to be of great value to a large and diverse group of people interested in the plight of this landscape. It offers both theoretical and practical insights, but perhaps most admirably, draws a metaphorical ‘line in the sand’ and points the way to a much brighter future."
Paul Gibson-Roy, Australasian Plant Conservation, Vol 19, No. 3, December 2010 - February 2011

Features

The latest thinking in woodland conservation, management and policy making
New perspectives on the integration of woodland management and agricultural production, including the latest thinking about whole of paddock restoration and carbon farming
High quality chapters from the nation’s leading researchers, managers and policy makers in temperate woodlands
New perspectives on financial and social incentive schemes to promote woodland conservation and management
Easy to follow format that distils key new insights and lessons for future conservation and management initiatives

Authors

David Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at The Australian National University. He has worked for more than 15 years in Australia’s temperate woodlands and runs several major woodland research and conservation projects. He has published more than 25 books and 580 scientific papers on an array of aspects of biodiversity conservation, forest and woodland management. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science, and has received numerous awards.

Andrew Bennett commenced his career with the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria, and later joined Deakin University where he now holds a Personal Chair in Landscape Ecology. A particular interest has been wildlife conservation in agricultural environments and the effects of land-use and landscape change. Much of this work has been done in woodland ecosystems.

Richard Hobbs is Professor of Restoration Ecology at the University of Western Australia, where he holds an ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship, and leads the Ecosystem Restoration Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. His current research focuses on 'Intervention ecology: managing ecosystems in the 21st century'.