Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The science of understanding landscape change: setting the scene for the Tumut Fragmentation Study
- 2 The theory: an overview of landscape change and habitat fragmentation
- 3 The field laboratory: the Tumut study area and the vertebrate animals it supports
- 4 Setting up the study: the design and implementation of the main cross-sectional study at Tumut
- 5 The core findings: the effects of landscape context on animals and plants
- 6 Patch use: how animals use patches of remnant eucalypt forest surrounded by pine
- 7 Theory against data: testing ecological theories and concepts
- 8 Testing PVA models with real data: melding demographic work with population modelling
- 9 Genes in the landscape: integrating genetic and demographic analyses
- 10 Refining and extending the research programme: additional studies at Tumut (and nearby) that build on the Fragmentation Study
- 11 Recommendations for plantation managers: implications for biodiversity and conservation in plantations
- 12 Lessons on running large-scale research studies: some insights from running the Tumut Fragmentation Study and directions for the future
- Appendix 1 List of collaborators/contributors to the Tumut Fragmentation Experiment
- Appendix 2 Detections of bird species in the Tumut Fragmentation Study classified by four broad classes of sites
- References
- Index
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The science of understanding landscape change: setting the scene for the Tumut Fragmentation Study
- 2 The theory: an overview of landscape change and habitat fragmentation
- 3 The field laboratory: the Tumut study area and the vertebrate animals it supports
- 4 Setting up the study: the design and implementation of the main cross-sectional study at Tumut
- 5 The core findings: the effects of landscape context on animals and plants
- 6 Patch use: how animals use patches of remnant eucalypt forest surrounded by pine
- 7 Theory against data: testing ecological theories and concepts
- 8 Testing PVA models with real data: melding demographic work with population modelling
- 9 Genes in the landscape: integrating genetic and demographic analyses
- 10 Refining and extending the research programme: additional studies at Tumut (and nearby) that build on the Fragmentation Study
- 11 Recommendations for plantation managers: implications for biodiversity and conservation in plantations
- 12 Lessons on running large-scale research studies: some insights from running the Tumut Fragmentation Study and directions for the future
- Appendix 1 List of collaborators/contributors to the Tumut Fragmentation Experiment
- Appendix 2 Detections of bird species in the Tumut Fragmentation Study classified by four broad classes of sites
- References
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Large-Scale Landscape ExperimentsLessons from Tumut, pp. 253 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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