Reforestation has large potential for mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration. Native mixed‐species plantings have a higher potential to reverse biodiversity loss than do plantations of production species, but there are few data on their capacity to store carbon. A chronosequence (5–45 years) of 36 native mixed‐species plantings, paired with adjacent pastures, was measured to investigate changes to stocks among...

Aim We used models of remotely sensed estimates of forest‐stand condition (degree of die‐back) with models of avian responses to stand condition to determine how the avifauna responded to a 13‐year drought, and how the avifauna might respond to a predicted much warmer and drier climate in the next 60 years. Location Floodplain forests of the southern M urray– D arling B asin, A ustralia. Methods We selected 45 2‐ha locations t...

Aim Climate change has been linked to negative effects on vegetation, including drought‐induced dieback. Large‐scale dieback not only leads to considerable carbon emissions but often leads to loss of ecological resources. We investigated whether, and how, the structure, composition and carbon content changed over a period of extended drought (the ‘ B ig D ry’) in a much‐modified forest ecosystem. We explored whether landscape...

Aquatic biodiversity faces increasing threats from climate change, escalating exploitation of water and land use intensification. Loss of vegetation in catchments (= watersheds) has been identified as a substantial problem for many river basins, and there is an urgent need to better understand how climate change may interact with changes in catchment vegetation to influence the ecological condition of freshwater ecosystems. We...

River regulation and water extraction have altered the hydrology of rivers resulting in substantial changes to forest structure and the dieback of floodplain forests globally. Forest mortality, due to water extraction, is likely to be exacerbated by climate change‐induced droughts. In 1965, a plantation trial was established within a natural floodplain forest to examine the effect of planting density on timber production. We u...