Wet Tropics - A Learning Landscape

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Welcome to our second edition

Edition 2: Friday, 22nd September 2017

The Learning Landscape eBulletin aims to share and apply our collective knowledge of this exceptional part of the world. It showcases current and emerging Wet Tropics research and related management and policy issues. We hope you enjoy this second edition and would love to hear your feedback, including ideas for future issues.

Click below to read a summary of all the interesting stories in this second edition
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Mountain mistfrog Photographer: Mike Trenerry

Irreplaceable and outstanding
Atherton antechinus Photographer: Scott Burnett/Bruce Thompson
The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area was ranked the second most irreplaceable natural World Heritage site and the sixth overall in global irreplaceability in a new international analysis for the IUCN. Read more

Missing frogs make a comeback

A sole population of the armoured mistfrog was rediscovered on the Carbine Tableland, 20 years after the species was thought to be extinct. JCU researchers have now successfully moved 40 frogs to a new site to help ensure their future survival.
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Armoured mistfrog (Litoria lorica) Photographer: Conrad Hoskin

All things aquatic

Our freshwater streams and wetlands and their aquatic animals and ecosystems are the focus of the latest State of the Wet Tropics Report (2012-2013).
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Mount Lewis crayfish (Euastocus Fleckeri) Photographer: Wet Tropics Images/Mike Trenerry

Happy anniversaries

Last year marked the 50th anniversary for a number of seminal tropical rainforest research organisations.

Their longevity has had huge benefits for rainforest research.
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Cutting the cake - 25th anniversary of the WHA Photographer: Deanna Belbin

Don't lose the plot

The Connell plots in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area clearly show the value of long term monitoring to learn about rainforest dynamics and succession and to help foster further research.
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TERN site tower at Robson's Creek Photographer: Campbell Clarke

Decisions, decisions - conserving species under climate change

Ecological systems face significant threats from climate change, and the need for effective responses has become a major conservation management challenge.
The Wet Tropics is particularly at risk. Which species will be under most threat, and where must they move in order to avoid extinction?

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Lemuroid possum Photographer: Mike Trenerry

Mozzies move in on rainforest edges

Scientists have shown that rainforest disturbance affects mosquito populations. Grasslands and rainforest edges have increased mosquito abundance and diversity.
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Dean Jones and Dr Susan Laurance sampling mosquitoes Photographer: Andrew McKeown (CSIRO)

In this edition

•	Irreplaceable and outstanding
•	Missing frogs make a comeback
•	All things aquatic
•	Happy anniversaries
•	Don't lose the plot
•	Decisions, decisions - conserving species under climate change
•	Mozzies move in on rainforest edges
•	Guest editorial - make decisions based on knowledge
•	Postgrad Profile - Wondering about Alice
•	Policy snapshot February 2014
•	In the news - February 2014
•	Rainforest research update February 2014

Guest editorial - make decisions based on knowledge

Research has always been essential to inform World Heritage management.
Peter Hitchcock AM
World Heritage Advisor (Former WTMA Executive Director)
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Postgrad Profile

Alice Buhrich received a 2013 Student Research Grant from the Wet Tropics Management Authority to study carved trees in the central Wet Tropics. Alice aims to understand the long term preservation needs of the carvings and how they were affected by Cyclones Larry and Yasi.
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