Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and DirectionEmma Burns, Andrew Lowe, Nicole Thurgate, David Lindenmayer This data-rich book demonstrates the value of existing national long-term ecological research in Australia for monitoring environmental change and biodiversity. Long-term ecological data are critical for informing trends in biodiversity and environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN). LTERN researchers and other authors in this book have maintained monitoring sites, often for one or more decades, in an array of different ecosystems across the Australian continent – ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment that have occurred in the various systems in which dedicated field-based ecologists have worked. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment in Australia. By presenting trend patterns (and often also the associated data) the authors aim to catalyse governments and other organisations to better recognise the importance of long-term data collection and monitoring as a fundamental part of ecologically-effective and cost-effective management of the environment and biodiversity. |
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Contents
| 14 | |
Tropical rainforestsof eastern Australia Daniel Metcalfe Michael LiddellMatt Bradfordand Peter Green | 14 |
Camac Michael NashJohnMorgan andAryHoffmann 7 Heathlands | 14 |
Temperate eucalypt woodlands | 73 |
9 | 85 |
Desert complex environments | 29 |
Chenopod and acacia shrublands | 72 |
Tussock grasslands | 112 |
13 | 180 |
Synopsis | 2030 |
| 2055 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction |
| Editors | Emma Burns, Andrew Lowe, Nicole Thurgate, David Lindenmayer |
| Publisher | Csiro Publishing, 2014 |
| ISBN | 0643108580, 9780643108585 |
| Length | 624 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Natural Resources Science / Environmental Science Science / Life Sciences / Ecology Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture |
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