Science

Ecosystems evolve and change, and management systems must respond if environmental values such as biodiversity are to be protected and maintained.

Forestry Tasmania is a science-based business. The well-being of our forests depends on our science.

Ongoing research is improving the understanding of ecosystem processes and results in improved forest practices. Forestry Tasmania spends more than $3 million a year in research and development (R&D) to better understand forest ecology and to inform sustainable forest management practices.

The Division of Forest Research publishes a number of documents including an Annual Report and Tasforests as a means of communicating information on a wide range of subjects relevant to Tasmania's forests. Click here for FT's  publications

“The science of landscape ecology now underpins much of our thinking on managing forests at wider scales. One challenge has been to link our developing understanding of ecological processes over broad scales of space and time to operations in individual coupes, that is, to be able to explain the importance of landscape ecology in real forest management" Dr Steve Read - More »