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Victorian Central Highlands

Find out how our team has been maintaining long-term biodiversity and forest management in the Central Victorian montane ash forests since 1983.

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River on the Baw Baw Plateau on Gunaikurnai Country that eventually flows into the Thomson Reservoir (Chris Taylor)

What we do

Welcome to Long Term Ecology, a site to highlight the field based research of long term monitoring projects undertaken across South Eastern Australia. Since 1983 the research team has conducted major long-term ecological monitoring under the direction of Professor David Lindenmayer.

Checking an Elliot trap at a monitoring site at Booderee National Park

"On ground research is important as it's based on reality, rather than assumptions"

David Lindenmayer, CEED 2015

Our research

Led by David Lindenmayer, the team consists of ten full time field based researchers. The team forms part of the The Conservation and Landscape Ecology Group of the Fenner School within The Australian National University. Each member of the team is highly experienced in ecological monitoring and several staff have worked with the team for over a decade.

Projects

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Greater Glider Recovery Project

The Greater Glider Recovery Project will restore the habitats of and support populations of greater gliders.
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Cultural Burning in Travelling Stock Reserves Project

Large-scale cool burning program undertaken by Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri Aboriginal peoples across critically endangered box-gum grassy woodlands.
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Booderee National Park Research Project

Booderee National Park

Long-term monitoring at Booderee National Park Reveals valuable insights for park management.
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In the Field

What we are doing right now.

Booderee National Park

Booderee National Park

Long-term monitoring at Booderee National Park Reveals valuable insights for park management.
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Victorian Central Highlands

Victorian Central Highlands

Long-term biodiversity and forest monitoring in the Victorian montane ash forests.
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Publications

Effective Ecological Monitoring by David Lindenmayer and Gene Likens
Monitoring Threatened Species and Ecological Communities by Sarah Legge (editor)|Natasha Robinson (editor)|Benjamin Scheele (editor)|David Lindenmayer (editor)|Darren Southwell (editor)|Brendan Wintle (editor), Sarah Legge, et al.
Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife by David Lindenmayer , Damian Michael, et al.
The Great Forest: The rare beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands by David Lindenmayer , Sarah Rees, et al.
Biodiversity and Environmental Change: Monitoring, Challenges and Direction by David Lindenmayer , Emma Burns, et al.
Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment [OP]: A Guide to Their Identification, Ecology and Conservation by Damian Michael and David Lindenmayer