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Landscape ecology can be thought of as the study of the patterns and interactions of communities with their environment through space and time and the physical and biological processes involved.
 Soil
condition, nutrient levels, fire and climate regimes and the numbers of plant
and animal species are all part of the ecology of any
given landscape.
By looking at how these factors interact with each
other, CSE aims to understand how Australian landscapes
function, change and effect biodiversity.
CSE's landscape ecology research helps those who use
land and those who manage land to better understand
the complex processes which contribute to the overall
health of their landscape.
CSE's activities in landscape ecology include:
- examining the effects of bushfires.
- developing ways to monitor landscape health.
- effectively transferring our knowledge to land owners
and land managers.
- understanding the ecology of different Australian
landscapes including arid lands, tropical savannas,
rangelands and rainforests.
Landscape
Resilience and Monitoring in Arid Lands - this research
activitiy examines such things as fire ecology, resource
redistribution and conservation biodiversity.
Tropical
Savanna Ecology - this research area examines a
range of topics in landscape ecology including bioindicators
of ecosystem health and measurements of landscape change.
Carbon Dynamics in Australia's Tropical North
Fire, fragmentation and conservation in the western wheat belt
Rainforest seed dispersal: a threatened ecological process
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