Habitat in Dead branches?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

As I suspected, it really isnt that work is not done, its just like everywhere else a lack of cross discipline communications. This issue was one of the key problems I picked up on from Neville Fay, he had the foresight a long while back to start pulling them together. It was directly due to Nevilles seminars that I became exposed to the many direct connections and disciplines related to and connected to trees. it was through Nevilles seminars I heard Alan Rayner and many others speak for the first time.

 

Neville has been trying to get the disciplines to work together, to communicate and co-operate all this time, what are we waiting for?

 

http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/8750/Fungimap_NL_39_text.pdf

 

ABRS - Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories

 

Australian National Herbarium (HC) - Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research

[Fungus]

The recognition of the importance of deadwood habitats both in the trees and on the ground is enshrined in Federal, State and (some) local government documentation highlighting key ecological values and expressing the need to act (without providing any real direction as to how such action might be manifest)

the Red Book has enabled many levels of government to develop local/regional action plans. Some of these are specific to classes of organisms and even down to a individual species, we are yet to move much beyond the furry cute organisms here.

 

Sean,

I just watched a documentary on the nocturnal animals of NZ and was informed of a "possum pest" caused by over a million of originally Austalian marsupials, imported for their fur, called Brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), which not only damage huge amounts of trees by eating bark and branches, like the "tree rats" or squirrels do in the UK, but because of that nowadays also are partially responsible for the decreasing numbers of Kakapo's, indigenous wingless parrots, that feed on bark, leaves and seeds of trees too, for which a breeding program was started to keep them from becoming extinct.

Is this possum such a serious problem, that the government has to implement measures to poison/kill as much as possible, although their efforts seem to be useless because of the ever increasing numbers of these animals ?