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	Home / MTSRF Research / Theme 4 - Sustainable Use and Management / Program 9 - Sustainable Use (Rainforest Landscapes) / Project 4.9.3 Project 4.9.3 - Impacts of urbanisation on North Queensland environments: management and remediation Project Leader: Professor Steve Turton, James Cook University Project 4.9.3 will develop increased understanding of impacts of rapid urban, peri-urban and rural development on Wet Tropics ecosystems and linked socio-economic systems, together with mitigation strategies for minimising or reversing adverse trends. The Project is linked with terrestrial components of Program 6 (Threatening Processes and Invasives) and Program 7 (Water Quality). These links will feed into the Integrated Report Card process. Key focuses of this Project are linear community infrastructure impacts and mitigation and riparian vegetation - modeling of quality and habitat connectivity in urban and rural areas.	Project 4.9.3 Downloads Highway Overpass Evaluation of Effectiveness: Kuranda Range Road Upgrade Project This PDF document is designed to be printed double-sided. [pdf 6.3 Mb] Project 4.9.3 JCU Goosem, M. et al. (2007) Nocturnal noise levels and edge impacts on amphibian habitats adjacent to Kuranda Range road This research aims to fill knowledge gaps regarding nocturnal traffic noise and its impacts on amphibians, and consists of three core research areas: (a) to examine potential amphibian avoidance of habitat adjacent to the Kuranda Range road in comparison with areas further into the forest; (b) to analyse whether frequency shifts in amphibian calls occurs at the edge of the Kuranda Range road in comparison to calls recorded in the forest interior; and (c) to undertake systematic nocturnal noise recording near Streets and Avondale Creeks on the current road and in identified 'acoustic refugia' along those streams. [pdf 2.4 Mb] Project 4.9.3 JCU Turton, S. et al. (2008) An assessment of the environmental impacts of Cyclone Larry on the forest landscapes of northeast Queensland, with reference to responses to natural resource management issues in the aftermath An assessment of the environmental impacts of Cyclone Larry on the forest landscapes of northeast Queensland, with reference to responses to natural resource management issues in the aftermath: Report submitted to the Bureau of Meteorology (March 2007. [pdf 4.5 Mb] The effects of Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry on rainforest vegetation and understorey microclimate adjacent to powerlines, highways and streams in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area This PDF document is designed to be printed double-sided. [pdf 10.5 Mb]

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