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CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY IN BRIGALOW LANDSCAPES
Useful contacts & resources
http://www.uq.edu.au/brigalow/
http://condaminealliance.com.au/
http://www.qmdc.org.au/
http://www.brg.cma.nsw.gov.au/
http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/vegetation/index.html
http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicshowcommunity.pl?id=28
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/publications/brigalow-regrowth.html
http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/prickly-pear
http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/brigalow
http://www.myallparkbotanicgarden.org.au
http://www.brigalowbirds.org
Further reading
Bowen, M.E., McAlpine, C.A., Seabrook, L., House, A.P.N., Smith, G.C., 2009. The age and amount of regrowth forest
in fragmented brigalow landscapes are both important for woodland dependent birds. Biological Conservation 142,
3051–3059.
Bowen, M.E., McAlpine, C.A., House, A.P.N., Smith, G.C., 2009. Agricultural landscape modification increases the
abundance of an important food resource: Mistletoes, birds and brigalow. Biological Conservation 142, 122–133.
Bowen, M.E., McAlpine, C.A., House, A.P.N., Smith, G.C., 2007. Regrowth forests on abandoned agricultural land: A
review of their habitat values for recovering forest fauna. Biological Conservation 140, 273–296.
Brigalow Birds Educational Project 2010, Brigalow birds. Lesterlyons Publishing, Brisbane
Chandler, T.S., Buckley, Y.M., Dwyer, J.M., 2007. Restoration potential of Brigalow regrowth: Insights from a crosssectional
study in southern Queensland. Ecological Management & Restoration 8, 218–221.
Collard, S., Le Brocque, A., Zammit, C., 2009. Bird assemblages in fragmented agricultural landscapes: the role of small
brigalow remnants and adjoining land uses. Biodiversity and Conservation 18, 1649-1670.
Dwyer, J.M., Fensham, R., Buckley, Y.M., 2010. Restoration thinning accelerates structural development and carbon
sequestration in an endangered Australian ecosystem. Journal of Applied Ecology 47, 681–691.
Dwyer, J.M., Fensham, R.J., Butler, D.W., Buckley, Y.M., 2009. Carbon for conservation: Assessing the potential for winwin
investment in an extensive Australian regrowth ecosystem. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 134, 1–7.
Lester, N.C., 2008. Woodland to weeds. 2nd Edition, Copyright Publishing, Brisbane.
Lowik, P.J., 2010. Spatial patterns of habitat use by microchiropteran bats in a fragmented landscape of the southern
Brigalow Belt, Queensland, Australia. Honours thesis, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management,
The University of Queensland.
Maron, M., Main, A., Bowen, M., Howes, A. L., Kath, J., Pillette, C.and McAlpine, C. A. 2011. Relative influence of habitat
modification and interspecific competition on woodland bird assemblages in eastern Australia. Emu: Austral Ornithology
111: 40-51
Maron, M, Bowen, M., Fuller, R A, Smith, G C, Eyre, T, Mathieson, M., Watson, J E M & McAlpine, C A. In press. Spurious
relationships and the relationship between species richness and vegetation cover. Global Ecology and Biogeography
Nix, H., 1994. The Brigalow, In Australian environmental history. Essays and cases. ed. S. Dovers, pp. 198–233. Oxford
University Press, Melbourne, Victoria.
Seabrook, L., McAlpine, C., Fensham, R., 2008. What influences farmers to keep trees? A case study from the Brigalow
Belt, Queensland, Australia. Landscape and Urban Planning, 84, 266-281.
Seabrook, L., McAlpine, C., Fensham, R., 2007. Spatial and temporal analysis of vegetation change in agricultural
landscapes: A case study of two brigalow (Acacia harpophylla) landscapes in Queensland, Australia Agriculture,
Ecosystems & Environment, 120, 211-228.
Seabrook, L., McAlpine, C., Fensham, R., 2006. Cattle, crops and clearing: Regional drivers of landscape change in the
Brigalow Belt, Queensland, Australia, 1840-2004. Landscape and Urban Planning, 78, 373-385.
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