Climate change is already reshaping the towering mountain ash forests of southeastern Australia, new research shows.
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When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice Age some 2.6 million years ago.
Forest fragmentation is causing the deepest and darkest parts of the world’s forests to shrink.
Fires here can affect meltwater timing and water quality, worsen erosion that triggers mudslides, and much more, as two scientists explain.
New findings show how changes in land use have complex effects on animal and plant species.
Indonesia is the world’s biggest destroyer of forests and four multinational corporations — APP, APRIL, Wilmar and Golden Agri Resources — have been responsible for much of it. Until recently these mega-corporations…
A new high-resolution global map reveals 21st century changes in forest cover, showing where in the world we are losing and…
Forests spark emotional debates in Australia. Much of the rhetoric is about saving “the last of Tasmania’s wild forests” or how we must “stop logging in Australian native forests”. Australian forests…
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Reader in Biology, University of St Andrews
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PhD Candidate in Global Change Ecology, University of Edinburgh
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Research Associate in Climate Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Lecturer in Conservation and Forestry, Bangor University
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Boise State University; United Nations University
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Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology, University of Otago
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Director of the AFWI Centre for Climate Smart Forestry and Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Forest and Landscape Dynamics, The University of Melbourne
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