Wildlife conservation in farm landscapes / David Lindenmayer [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lindenmayer, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife conservation--Australia.

Wildlife conservation.

Wildlife management--Australia.

Wildlife management.

Agriculture--Environmental aspects--Australia.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton, South Victoria : CSIRO Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Novel perspectives on integrating farming practices and wildlife conservation and other environmental values.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

The underlying philosophy of our applied research work and the scientific process

The concept of 'scale'

The structure of this book

Our use of common and scientific names

Caveats

2 Birds

Bird breeding success in woodland patches

Birds in nest boxes

Birds and paddock trees

Networks of species - friends and foes

Not all patches of bush are equal - bird responses to different kinds of broad vegetation structure

Why are there such marked differences in bird occurrence between the different kinds of vegetation?

Which attributes of remnants are important for birds?

Which attributes of plantings are important for birds?

Birds and travelling stock reserves

Pines and woodland patches

Bird responses to total vegetation cover at different scales

Bird occurrence over time

Do plantings get better with age?

Birds and the Millennium Drought

Management interventions and birds

Are birds good indicators?

Concluding comments

3 Mammals

Introduction

Habitat trees, paddock trees and arboreal marsupials - the case of the Squirrel Glider

Countryside elements and mammals - the special case of the Squirrel Glider

Mammals in nest boxes

What makes a good woodland remnant for arboreal marsupials?

Mammals and travelling stock reserves

Can there be too many mouths to feed?

Change in mammal abundance over time

Mammals in woodland patches surrounded by pine stands

4 Reptiles

A way of categorising reptiles

Reptiles and regrowth woodland

Do reptiles use tree plantings?

Boulenger's Skink and lizard morphology

Rocky outcrops and reptiles

Management interventions and reptiles

Reptile assemblages

Reptiles in woodlands surrounded by stands of pine

Concluding comments.

5 Invertebrates

Kangaroos and beetles

Ants in grazing landscapes

Butterflies in grazing landscapes

'Bugs' and pines - what happens to invertebrates in eucalypt patches surrounded by pine plantations

6 Vegetation cover and plants

Increase in vegetation cover over time

Changes in vegetation attributes over time

How management interventions changes and improves vegetation

Where in landscapes are key vegetation structures most likely to occur?

Paddock trees as keystone elements in agricultural landscapes - changes in paddock trees over time

Mistletoe as a key resource

Large logs as a critical resource

Home grown - native grass as a key habitat resource

Rocks are good for plants too

Regeneration dynamics in grazing landscapes

Where it is best to do plantings and how they should be designed?

7 Managing wildlife friendly farms

Protect what is already there

Restore what is missing

Putting it all together - evidence-based farm planning for integrating farming, biodiversity and other values

Developing evidence-based farm plans

8 General discussion

Generating co-benefits - farming, carbon and wildlife

Being paid to conserve biodiversity on farms

The dangers of over-intensification

Fire and farm planning

Why monitoring is important

Appendix 1 - List of common and scientific names

Appendix 2 - References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 10, 2016).

ISBN:

9781486303120

1486303129

9781486303113

1486303110

OCLC:

954009865