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dc.contributor.authorTreby, Donna Louise
dc.contributor.authorCastley, James Guy
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-23T06:07:43Z
dc.date.available2018-10-23T06:07:43Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1618-8667
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ufug.2015.06.004
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/101536
dc.description.abstractHabitat 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.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.sponsorshipGold Coast City Council
dc.description.sponsorshipGriffith University
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom655
dc.relation.ispartofpageto663
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalUrban Forestry & Urban Greening
dc.relation.ispartofvolume14
dc.subject.fieldofresearchForestry sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchForestry sciences not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHuman geography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3007
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode300799
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4104
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4406
dc.titleDistribution and abundance of hollow-bearing trees in urban forest fragments
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.facultyGriffith 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.
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gro.griffith.authorCastley, Guy G.


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