Apple growing practices are embedded in a productivist mentality aiming for ever higher efficiency and productivity. And while the climate change impacts are to a large extent known, there is little attention given to the ...

The vegetation of green roofs is central to their functioning and ability to provide ecosystem services. When vegetation performs well, green roofs contribute to storm water mitigation, thermally buffer buildings, improve ...

Populations of P. australiensis have been hypothesized to respond differently to urban stormwater runoff (as indicated by effective imperviousness) in streams of Melbourne, a large southeastern Australian city. These ...

This thesis investigates the interconnections and dynamics between multilevel processes in the transitions in Community Forestry (CF) in Indonesia since the 1990s. Indonesia, having achieved mixed success in addressing the ...

IN the early to mid-1990s, Australia governments adopted significant forestry and water policy agendas. The forest policy stimulated plantation expansion, and articulated benefits to water resource degradation which became ...

The paradigm of prescribed burning with ecological goals, known as ecological burning, has become common practice in fire-prone regions worldwide. This includes using prescribed fire to create heterogeneous environments ...

A predator’s impact upon its prey depends not only on the evolutionary history and intrinsic characteristics of the two species, but also on the structure of the environment in which they interact. Fire is a major driver ...

One of the most important knowledge gaps currently inhibiting biodiversity conservation in fire-prone landscapes concerns the interactions between fire and other ecosystem processes. Animal-mediated pollination, whereby ...

Fatalities on coastal rock platforms in Australia over the past two decades have remained a continued and unabated issue. Rock-based fishers are particularly at risk. Whilst various intervention strategies have been developed ...

Temperate grasslands have been transformed by changes to historic biotic and abiotic habitat conditions caused by urbanisation. Urbanisation has led to reduced fire frequency (an important ecological process in highly ...