Trees and biodiversity: A guide for farm forestry

Abstract

Australia’s declining biodiversity is often cited as one of our greatest environmental threats. We have already lost 19 species of mammals, 23 species of birds and 68 species of plants. Thousands of animal and plant species are vulnerable or endangered, and an unknowable number of insects, fungi and microbes either have become extinct or are endangered. With the disappearance of these species, we also lose the many ecosystem services they provide — services that are intimately connected to the productivity of our agricultural landscapes. Show more