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dc.contributor.authorWardell-Johnson, Grant
dc.contributor.authorStone, C.
dc.contributor.authorRecher, Harry
dc.contributor.authorLynch, A.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T15:06:15Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T15:06:15Z
dc.date.created2010-03-29T20:04:44Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.identifier.citationWardell-Johnson, Grant and Stone, Christine and Recher, Harry and Lynch, A. Jasmyn J. 2005. A review of eucalypt dieback associated with bell miner habitat in south-eastern Australia. Australian Forestry. 68 (4): pp. 231-236.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43260
dc.description.abstract

We aim to assess current knowledge, and identify gaps in knowledge concerning bell-miner-associated dieback (BMAD) in south-eastern Australia. We review BMAD as a form of forest dieback, and bell miner and psyllid interrelations. We then consider indirect and direct causal factors associated with local functional scales (tree crown), and finally, indirect and direct causal factors associated with broader functional scales (forest stand and landscape processes). This paper emphasises publishedliterature and is a summary of a more detailed report prepared for the BMAD working group which explicitly included personal communications with many researchers, managers and membersof conservation groups and the timber industry. We conclude that BMAD is a significant threat to the sustainability of the moist eucalypt forests of north-eastern NSW and south-eastern Queensland, and to biodiversity conservation at a national scale. There are serious deficiencies in the information base for most BMAD issues. While there are clear interactions between bell miners and psyllids, there are many other, less well quantified interactions that may be of greater significance to the developmentof the problem. We suggest that management and research efforts towards solutions urgently target disturbances that lead to changes in forest canopy structure, but there is unlikely to be a single orsimple management solution. An integrated management program will be necessary as concentration on particular management regimes in isolation is unlikely to resolve the BMAD problem because BMAD is associated with interacting disturbances.

dc.publisherInstitute of Foresters of Australia
dc.subjectforest management
dc.subjectherbivores
dc.subjectpsyllids
dc.subjectdieback
dc.subjectliterature reviews
dc.subjectbell miner
dc.subjectManorina melanophrys
dc.subjectapplied research
dc.titleA review of eucalypt dieback associated with bell miner habitat in south-eastern Australia.
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume68
dcterms.source.number4
dcterms.source.startPage231
dcterms.source.endPage236
dcterms.source.issn00049158
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Forestry
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultySchool of Agriculture and Environment
curtin.facultyFaculty of Science and Engineering
curtin.facultyDepartment of Environmental Biology


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