Note: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Deadication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The science of understanding landscape change: setting the scene for the Tumut Fragmentation Study -- A guide to using the book -- A few caveats -- 2 The theory: an overview of landscape change and habitat fragmentation -- The 'species-orientated' to 'patterns-based' continuum -- Conceptual models of landscape cover -- The landscape contour model -- Limitations of the contour model and single-species approaches -- Pattern-based landscape models -- The island model -- The patch-matrix-corridor model -- The variegation model -- Limitations of pattern-based landscape models -- The link between single-species and multi-species landscape models -- Research at Tumut -- Landscape context and landscape heterogeneity -- Research at Tumut -- Threshold responses to native vegetation cover -- Research at Tumut -- Patch size relationships -- Research at Tumut -- Habitat subdivision, habitat isolation and metapopulation dynamics -- Research at Tumut -- Connectivity -- Complexity, issues and interrelationships -- Research at Tumut -- Nestedness -- Research at Tumut -- Edges -- Abiotic edge effects -- Biotic edge effects -- Research at Tumut -- Summary -- 3 The field laboratory: the Tumut study area and the vertebrate animals it supports -- Geology and climate -- Plantation vegetation cover -- Native vegetation cover -- Disturbance -- Fauna of the Tumut region -- Birds -- Mammals -- Arboreal marsupials -- Terrestrial native mammals -- Terrestrial feral mammals -- Reptiles -- Frogs -- Other groups -- Summary -- 4 Setting up the study: the design and implementation of the main cross-sectional study at Tumut -- The experimental design underpinning the cross-sectional study at Tumut -- Enumeration of the eucalypt remnants. , Selection procedures for eucalypt remnants surrounded by stands of Radiata Pine -- Identifying a sampling unit: a pilot study and calibration of survey methods -- Site establishment for eucalypt remnants -- Selection of eucalypt 'controls' and Radiata Pine 'matrix' sites -- Measurement of covariates -- Final experimental design -- Reasons why the Tumut area was selected for study -- The availability of 'control sites' -- The potential to cross-match eucalypt remnant and control sites -- Known history of landscape modification -- The relative uniformity of landscape (pine) 'matrix' sites -- Previous understanding of faunal populations -- Limitations of the cross-sectional study of landscape context effects -- Target groups selected for study -- Summary -- 5 The core findings: the effects of landscape context on animals and plants -- Survey methods -- Arboreal marsupials -- Methods -- Results -- Small terrestrial mammals -- Methods -- Results -- Birds -- Methods -- Results -- Reptiles -- Methods -- Results -- Frogs -- Methods -- Results -- Invertebrates -- Methods -- Results -- Vascular plants -- Methods -- Landscape context effects for vascular plants -- Invasive vascular plants -- Methods -- Results -- Bryophytes -- Methods -- Results -- Summary of landscape context effects for different groups -- 6 Patch use: how animals use patches of remnant eucalypt forest surrounded by pine -- Movement and other changes in patches of different sizes -- Patch use by the Greater Glider -- Roosting behaviour by the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in eucalypt patches -- Bush Rat movements in remnant patches of eucalypt forest -- Bird calling behaviour within patches -- Patch-matrix interrelationships -- Altered breeding behaviour and dispersal -- Summary -- 7 Theory against data: testing ecological theories and concepts -- Conceptual models of landscape cover. , Empirical studies of conceptual landscape models at Tumut -- Lessons from the research at Tumut -- Nested subset theory -- Empirical studies of nestedness at Tumut -- Lessons from the research at Tumut -- Ecological thresholds in the amounts of native vegetation cover -- Empirical studies of thresholds at Tumut -- Lessons from the research at Tumut -- Landscape indices -- Empirical studies of landscape indices at Tumut -- Lessons from the research at Tumut -- Tests of the peninsula effect -- Empirical studies of peninsula effects at Tumut -- Lessons from the research at Tumut -- Other tests of theory -- Summary -- 8 Testing PVA models with real data: melding demographic work with population modelling -- Population viability analysis (PVA) -- PVA model testing at Tumut -- Model testing for arboreal marsupials -- Background biology -- Modelling of arboreal marsupials -- Model testing for small mammals -- Background biology -- Modelling of small mammals -- Model testing for birds -- Background biology -- Modelling of birds -- Lessons from Tumut -- Summary -- 9 Genes in the landscape: integrating genetic and demographic analyses -- Genetic analyses of Bush Rat populations -- Patterns of fine-scale spatial genetic structure -- A population removal and recovery experiment on the Bush Rat -- Experimental design -- Genetic analyses -- Demographic data and post-perturbation population recovery -- Genetic analyses of population knockdown -- Mechanisms underpinning rapid post-removal population recovery -- Lessons from the work -- Genetic analyses of Agile Antechinus populations -- Genetic analyses of Greater Glider populations -- Hypothesis testing prior to genetic analyses -- Collection of historical samples -- Field captures of the Greater Glider -- Field sampling of current populations of the Greater Glider -- Genetic analyses. , Genetic analyses of saproxylic beetle populations -- Summary -- 10 Refining and extending the research programme: additional studies at Tumut (and nearby) that build on the Fragmentation Study -- The Edge Experiment -- Experimental design -- Results of the Edge Experiment to date -- The Nest Predation Study -- The Nanangroe Natural Experiment -- Experimental design -- Results of the Nanangroe Natural Experiment to date -- Summary -- 11 Recommendations for plantation managers: implications for biodiversity and conservation in plantations -- The significance of plantation expansion as a form of landscape change -- Softwood plantation management and the conservation of remnant native vegetation -- Remnant native vegetation within plantations -- Extent of remnant vegetation within plantation boundaries -- Spatial and temporal patterns of patch-matrix contrast -- Management of gullies -- Management of aquatic areas -- Hygiene of plantation machinery -- The maintenance of biological legacies -- The lack of indicator species -- Summary -- 12 Lessons on running large-scale research studies: some insights from running the Tumut Fragmentation Study and directions for the future -- The challenges of maintaining a large-scale, multifaceted research project -- Data curation and management -- The maintenance of a field presence -- Funding -- Deficiencies in existing work and future work -- Some concluding remarks -- Appendix 1: List of collaborators/contributors to the Tumut Fragmentation Experiment -- Principal Investigators -- Field Research Staff -- Scientific Investigators and collaborators (alphabetical order) -- Appendix 2: Detections of bird species in the Tumut Fragmentation Study classified by four broad classes of sites -- References -- Index.