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Publications Search: Program 2 'Status and Trends of Species and Ecosystems in the Wet Tropics Rainforests'

Program 2 Project Milestone Reports

Project 1.2.1 CSIRO Butler, J. (2007) December Milestone Report
This Milestone Report summarises progress achieved during the first reporting period of FY2007-2008 for Project 1.2.1 Status & Trends of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (June-November 2007). [pdf 236.0 kb]


Project 1.2.1 CSIRO Pert, P. (2008) December Milestone Report
This Milestone Report summarises progress achieved during the period July – December 2008 for Project 1.2.1c ‘Status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystem services: state of the environment reporting and gap filling’. The project team continues to concentrate efforts on the spatial display of status and trends of resource conditions identified, and the filling of biodiversity data gaps with field surveys. [pdf 7.1 Mb]


Project 1.2.1 CSIRO Zich, F. (2009) Poster: Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants
The Australian tropical rainforests contain over 2,500 species of higher plants, representing more than 10% of the Australian flora. The 'Australian Tropical Rain Forest Plants - Trees, Shrubs and Vines', also known as the 'rainforest key', is an interactive identification and information system developed by the CSIRO. This downloadable poster highlights some of the rainforest key modules currently under development. [pdf 462.2 kb]


Project 1.2.1(b) JCU Williams, S. (2009) December Milestone Report
Project progress report - December 2009. Includes a summary of field sampling and monitoring of bird, reptile and microhylid frog species in the highlands of the Wet Tropics region, and a summary of an extension task which is sampling rainforest bird species outside of the Wet Tropics region to further current understanding of the role of climate as a driver of patterns of diversity and abundance in rainforest birds in general. [pdf 80.9 kb]


Project 1.2.1(b) JCU Williams, S. (2010) 'Biodiversity monitoring for climate change'
Final Report on Project Activities, June 2010. This document reports on fauna and weather station monitoring data collected as part of MTSRF Project 1.2.1 Extension (b). Microclimate data was collected from a region-wide network of 25 weather stations from 2006 to 2010. The data gained has been used to develop realistic estimates of microclimate exposure for the region and to identify cooler landscape 'refugia' and major microhabitat features that buffer exposure to extreme temperatures. This data has been used to evaluate vulnerability or resilience of species to extinction, evaluate the biodiversity values of climate change refugia, and improve niche models. [pdf 96.1 kb]


Program 2 Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Anderson, A., Monasterio, C. and Shoo, L. P. (Submitted) Breeding behaviour of the poorly known Australian hylid frog Litoria longirostrisHerpetofauna.

Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Ford, A. J., Metcalfe, D. J. and Liddell, M. J. (2009) Leaf chemical and spectral diversity in Australian tropical forests. Ecological Applications 19(1): 236-253 [doi:10.1890/08-0023.1]

Blüthgen, N. and Stork, N. E. (2007) Ant mosaics in a tropical rainforest in Australia and elsewhere:  A critical review Austral Ecology 32: 93-104 [doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01744.x]

Chazdon, R. L., Peres, C. A., Dent, D., Sheil, D., Lugo, A. E., Lamb, D., Stork, N. E. and Miller, S. E. (2009) The potential for species conservation in tropical secondary forests Conservation Biology 23(6): 1406-1417 [doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01338.x]

Grimbacher, P. S. and Stork, N. E. (2009) How do beetle assemblages respond to cyclonic disturbance of a fragmented tropical rainforest landscape?  Oecologia 161(3): 591-599 [doi:10.1007/s00442-009-1399-5]

Grimbacher, P. S. and Stork, N. E. (2007) Vertical stratification of feeding guilds and body size in beetle assemblages from an Australian tropical rainforest Austral Ecology 32: 77-85 [doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01735.x]

Hamilton, A. J., Basset, Y., Benke, K. K., Grimbacher, P. S., Miller, S. E., Novotný, V., Allan Samuelson, G., Storke, N. E., Weiblen, G. D. and Yen, J. D. L. (2010) Quantifying uncertainty in estimation of tropical arthropod species richness. The American Naturalist 176: 90-95 [doi:10.1086/652998] 

Laidlaw, M., Kitching, R. L., Goodall, K., Small, A. and Stork, N. E. (2007) Temporal and spatial variation in an Australian tropical rainforest Austral Ecology 32: 10-20 [doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01739.x]

Liddell, M. J., Nieullet, N., Campoe, O. C. and Freiberg, M. (2007) Assessing the above-ground biomass of a complex tropical rainforest using a canopy crane Austral Ecology 32: 43-58 [doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01736.x]

Pert, P. L., Butler, J. R. A., Brodie, J. E., Bruce, C., Honzák, M., Kroon, F. J., Metcalfe, D. J., Mitchell, D. and Wong, G. (2010) A catchment-based approach to mapping hydrological ecosystem services using riparian habitat:  A case study from the Wet Tropics, Australia.  Ecological Complexity 7: 378-388 [doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2010.05.002] 

Shoo, L. P., Anderson, A. and Williams, S. E. (2009) On the isolated population of Lewin's Honeyeater (Meliphaga lewinii amphochlora) from the McIlwraith Range uplands, Cape York Peninsula, Australia:  Estimates of population szie and distributionEmu - Austral Ornithology 109(4): 288-293 [doi:10.1071/MU08062]

Stork, N. E. (2010) Re-assessing current extinction rates Biodiversity and Conservation 19: 357-371 [doi:10.1007/s10531-009-9761-9]

Stork, N. E. (2007) Editorial:  Dynamics and processes in the canopy of an Australian tropical rainforest Austral Ecology 32: 2-3 [doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01742.x]

Stork, N. E. (2007) Australian tropical forest canopy crane:  New tools for new frontiers Austral Ecology 32: 4-9 [doi:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01740.x] 

Stork, N. E., Balston, J., Farquhar, G. D., Franks, P. J., Holtum, J. A. M. and Liddell, M. J. (2007) Tropical rainforest canopies and climate change Austral Ecology 32: 105-112 [doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01741.x]

Stork, N. E., Coddington, J. A., Colwell, R. K., Chazdon, R. L., Dick, C. W., Peres, C. A., Sloan, S. and Willis, K. (2009) Vulnerability and Resilience of Tropical Forest Species to Land-use Change. Conservation Biology 23(6): 1438-1447 [doi:10.111/j.1523-1739.2009.01335.x]

Williams, S. E., VanDerWal, J., Isaac, J., Shoo, L. P., Storlie, C., Fox, S., Bolitho, E. E., Moritz, C., Hoskin, C. J. and Williams, Y. M. (2010) Distributions, life-history specialization, and phenology of the rain forest vertebrates in the Australian Wet TropicsEcology 91(8): 2493 [doi:10.1890/09-1069.1]

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