Karen Ikin

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the extent of the distribution of threatened species across all Australian cities, and investigated the currently under-utilized opportunity that cities present for national biodiversity conservation by assessing the extent to which they overlapped with 99 cities (of more than 10,000 people), with all non-urban areas, and with simulated 'dummy' cities which covered the same area and bioregion as the true cities but were not urban.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that new policies and practices are urgently needed to conserve existing large old trees and restore ecologically effective and viable populations of such trees by managing trees and forests on much longer time scales than is currently practiced, and by protecting places where they are most likely to develop.

TL;DR: A systematic review of 655 conservation-related publications compared five topics: climate change, habitat restoration, population viability analysis, land planning (systematic conservation planning) and invasive species, finding that the quality of dispersal data used in climate change research has increased since the 1990s.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined bird distribution patterns in suburbs and adjacent reserves to the effects of two suburban management practices: (1) street tree planting and (2) boundary design, and found that suburbs with ≥30% native (Eucalyptus) street trees and reserves adjacent to these suburbs had significantly higher bird species richness, native adapter species richness and probability of reporting exotic adapters than those with exotic trees.

TL;DR: It is found that the only way to arrest the decline of large old trees requires a collective management strategy that ensures trees remain standing for at least 40% longer than currently tolerated lifespans and the formation of habitat structures provided by large old Trees is accelerated by at least 30% to compensate for short term deficits in habitat resources.