Sustainable Timber Tasmania's Dr Marie Yee's entry to the ILTER Most Striking Case competition on using the research from TERN's Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite to facilitate innovative biodiversity management in Tasmania's temperate native forests.

1. A LANDSCAPE
APPROACH TO
BIODIVERSITY
MANAGEMENT IN
TASMANIA’S TEMPERATE
NATIVE FORESTS
ILTER Most Striking Case Competition entry
Marie Yee, Sustainable Timber Tasmania
Warra LTER
Photo credit : Yoav Bar Ness

2. Warra LTER Eucalypt SuperSite -
Australia
 Situated in the most productive
temperate ecosystems of the
world, the cool temperate west
forest biome, uniquely extending
across environmental and
socioe-cological gradients.
 A research hub for studying the
dynamics of tall wet eucalypt
forest, undertaking detailed
baseline monitoring of cryptic
biota, hosting multidisciplinary
research that monitors long term
biotic responses to natural and
anthropogenic disturbance
regimes.
 Research findings scaled up to a
landscape scale to help drive
improvements in forest

3. Landscape Context Planning System
Integrating landscape ecology into forest
management
GIS SYSTEMS PLANNING SYSTEMS
MONITORING SYSTEMS IMPROVED MANAGEMENT
Learnings from Warra LTER research have been used to help develop a new GIS-based
conservation planning system that provides a landscape approach to biodiversity
management in Tasmania’s public production forests.

4. Ongoing research using novel
technology
Helping to monitor and continually improve forest
management
Current projects at Warra
include habitat mapping using
LiDAR, bird monitoring using
bioacoustic technology, and
measuring carbon fluxes in
relation to forest stress.
Results from monitoring can
readily be scenario tested using
the LCP System, such that
management can better keep
apace with new information and
emerging ecological trends in
these changing times.