Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre (Rainforest CRC) Fact Sheets

Between 1997 and 2003 the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre supported many research projects addressing issues in the Wet Tropics region. Still relevant today, the outcomes and findings of some of these projects were summarised into informative and readable fact sheets which can be downloaded below.

Issue	Title	File Size
Mar 2003	Faunal Underpasses: assuring animal safety on Wet Tropics Road	626 kb
Mar 2003	Craning for a better view of pollination	746 kb
Mar 2003	The bad, the worse and the ugly: Pest animals in the Wet Tropics	523 kb
Mar 2003	Indigenous Cultural Values of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area	648 kb
Aug 2002	Hidden forest gardens - microfungal communities thrive on the rainforest floor	2.0 mb
Aug 2002	Keeping cool when the heat's on: aquatic insects in rainforest streams	2.0 mb
Apr 2002	Where earth meets sky: cloud forests of the Wet Tropics	2.0 mb
Apr 2002	Feral Fruit: pond apple infests north Queensland	2.1 mb
Apr 2002	Why did the ringtail cross the road?	1.9 mb
Sep 2001	Birds sing the history of the rainforest	2.0 mb
Sep 2001	Fishes in the forest: High biodiversity and endemism	1.7 mb
Sep 2001	Dust from walking tracks: Impacts on rainforest leaves and epiphylls	1.8 mb
Sep 2001	The new and the known: describing freshwater fish species	1.9 mb
May 2001	Rainforest weeds and their ways: the need for vigilance	2.0 mb
May 2001	Ears wide open - are rainforest possums affected by human noise?	2.2 mb
May 2001	Forestry plantations on private lands: early growth rates encouraging	1.8 mb
May 2001	Getting the jump on frog disease!!	1.7 mb
May 2001	Paradox of the pig: feral status and control in the Wet Tropics	2.1 mb
Feb 2001	How roads and powerlines impact on rainforest micro-climate	2.0 mb
Feb 2001	Tree plantations can enhance rainforest regeneration	2.4 mb
Feb 2001	Seeing through the clouds and trees: Using Radar Systems to map rainforest health	1.8 mb
Feb 2001	Measuring erosion on unsealed roads through the rainforest	1.9 mb
Feb 2001	Rainforest beetles in dead wood: Could logging be their downfall	2.1 mb
Jan 2000	Root establishment strategies of rainforest seedlings	1.6 mb
Jan 2000	If shrimps could fly - genetic flow and dispersal of aquatic insects in separated river systems	1.6 mb
Jan 2000	Trial by fire: survival of the northern bettong	1.8 mb
Jan 2000	Landholder attitudes to farm forestry in north Queensland	1.6 mb
May 1999	Lumholtz's Tree-Kangaroo: conserving a rare marsupial	1.9 mb
May 1999	Understanding Ethnic Tourists - the Tjapukai experience	1.8 mb
May 1999	Rainforest plantations - restoring productivity and biodiversity to degraded lands	1.7 mb
Feb 1999	Marsupials in the mist - a home with a view, or declining mountain-top refuge?	1.9 mb
Feb 1999	What's in a stream? Using stream residents to monitor stream health	2.1 mb
Feb 1999	An inordinate fondness for beetles	1.6 mb
Nov 1998	Shrinking forests - what lizards can tell us about fragmented rainforest habitats	2.2 mb
Nov 1998	Northeast Queensland's endangered wet sclerophyll forests: for the birds?	1.9 mb
May 1998	Rainforest masks a deadly disease	778 k
May 1998	Spotted-Tailed Quolls: living fast and dying young	613 k
Mar 1998	Creating tools to manage the rainforest	435 k
Mar 1998	A brighter future for the mahogany glider	591 k
Feb 1998	Fire histories from space	408 k
Feb 1998	Educating visitors: what are the benefits for tourism?	666 k
Nov 1997	What species to grow? Some factors affecting the choice of trees for farm forestry	606 k
Nov 1997	Signs, signs everywhere, but are they being read?	727 k
Nov 1997	Sex and the single species	632 k
Sep 1997	Possums under the spotlight	603 k

Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre (Rainforest CRC) Fact Sheets

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