dc.contributor.author | Treby, Donna Louise | |
dc.contributor.author | Castley, James Guy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-23T06:07:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-23T06:07:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1618-8667 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.ufug.2015.06.004 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/101536 | |
dc.description.abstract | Habitat structures, such as hollow-bearing (i.e. cavity-bearing) trees, are globally recognised as important forest features for wildlife conservation and for providing important structural heterogeneity in natural and modified landscapes. The depletion of structural resources, such as hollow-bearing trees, within a landscape, may therefore be limiting to biota where no other functional substitutes exist. We surveyed 45 natural forest remnants across the rapidly urbanising City of Gold Coast, south-east Queensland, Australia to quantify the distribution and abundance of hollow-bearing trees. Tree and tree-hollow variables were quantified within the selected 91 plots. In total 6048 trees from 34 eucalypt species were sampled and 916 hollow-bearing trees containing 2159 hollows were recorded. The average hollow-bearing tree density (37.5 ± 3.13/ha) was much higher than those found in other studies within Australia. Hollows were more prevalent in large trees and the majority (50.4%) of hollows were bayonets (10 cm). Dead and decaying trees also had a greater likelihood of having a hollow than healthy trees. Our results highlight the value of urban forest remnants in maintaining the functional capacity of urban landscapes for biodiversity by protecting hollow-bearing trees as habitat resources. This information will assist conservation managers and planners to establish sound adaptive management plans to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem function in natural and modified landscapes. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Gold Coast City Council | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Griffith University | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 655 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 663 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 3 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Urban Forestry & Urban Greening | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 14 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Forestry sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Forestry sciences not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Environmental management | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Human geography | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3007 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 300799 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4104 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4406 | |
dc.title | Distribution and abundance of hollow-bearing trees in urban forest fragments | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
dcterms.license | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript (AM) | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2015 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited. | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Castley, Guy G. | |