Tree Hollows and Wildlife Conservation in Australia

By Phillip B. Gibbons, David B. Lindenmayer. 2002

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Large trees are keystone structures in urban parks (2012, background): “In Australia, 15% of terrestrial vertebrates use eucalypt hollows (Gibbons & Lindenmayer 2002), and Harper et al. (2005) found that the probability of live eucalypt trees having at least one hollow increased as trunk diameter increased.”
Linking fungi, trees, and hole-using birds in a Neotropical tree-cavity network: Pathways of cavity production and implications for conservation (2012, background): “After fungal attack, a cavity may be produced relatively quickly when avian excavators penetrate the outer sapwood of the tree and remove the softened heartwood (excavated cavities; Conner and Locke, 1982; Jackson and Jackson, 2004), or more slowly when physical or insect damage to the sapwood expos”
Hollow futures? Tree decline, lag effects and hollow‐dependent species (2013, background): “In situations where tree populations are in decline, the associated reduction in hollow availability has been associated with a decline in hollow-using species (Newton, 1994; Gibbons & Lindenmayer, 2002; Marsden & Pilgrim, 2003; Aitken & Martin, 2008; Heinsohn et al., 2009).”
Forest and woodland stand structural complexity: Its definition and measurement (2005, background): “While trees with larger dbh are likely to contain more occupied hollows, the majority of hollowbearing trees in a stand usually occur in the middle diameter classes, rather than in the largest trees (Gibbons and Lindenmayer, 2002).”
Which factors influence the occurrence and density of tree microhabitats in Mediterranean oak forests (2013, background): “All microhabitats have a potential role in biodiversity as foraging, sheltering, and breeding sites (Gibbons and Lindenmayer, 2002; Winter and Möller, 2008):”
The influence of native versus exotic streetscape vegetation on the spatial distribution of birds in suburbs and reserves (2013, background): “Cavity-nesting common starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), for example, frequently nest in eucalypt tree hollows (Gibbons & Lindenmayer, 2002).”
Inferring persistence of indigenous mammals in response to urbanisation (2005, background): “The apparent decline and low probability of persistence of approximately half of the microchiroptera is likely to be due to the loss of hollow-bearing trees, as 14 out of the 15 species of bat that occur in Melbourne roost in tree hollows (Gibbons & Lindenmayer, 2002).”
Microclimate in tree cavities and nest-boxes: implications for hole-nesting birds (2017, background): “Tree cavities are used by many forest organisms, and the availability of tree holes is 39 fundamental to maintaining forest biodiversity (Gibbons and Lindenmayer, 2002).”
Characteristics of tree hollows used by Australian birds and bats (2009, background): “There has been discussion of ways to promote hollow development in trees (Gibbons and Lindenmayer 2002); however, this has not progressed to field experiments.”
The diversity, distribution and conservation status of the tree‐cavity‐nesting birds of the world (2017, background): “…usually excavate their own cavities, facultative excavators use existing holes, excavate new holes or enlarge existing cavities, and nonexcavators predominantly use cavities excavated by other species, or cavities formed through decay (Gibbons & Lindenmayer, 2002; Martin, Aitken, & Wiebe, 2004).”
Towards an understanding of the evolutionary role of fire in animals (2018, background): “However, forest regrowth provided food, and large dead trees left still standing after the fires provided shelter and nesting allowing the Leadbeater’s possum population to greatly expand from prefire conditions (Gibbons and Lindenmayer 2002).”
How to make a common species rare: A case against conservation complacency (2011, background): “…characteristics (Rubsamen et al., 1984; Youngentob et al., 2011), (2) a strong association with particular forest types (Braithwaite et al., 1984), and (3) a strong association with particular kinds of large trees that are used as nest and shelter sites (Gibbons and Lindenmayer, 2002).”