CASE STUDY Tasmania: Ecological Research The Warra long-term ecological research (LTER) site lo- cated in Southwestern Tasmania was founded in 1995 to monitor long-term ecological health and dynamics within a wet eucalyptus forest. The site area consists of 15,900 hectares (61.4 square miles), partly contained within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (managed for conservation) and partly within state forest (managed for multiple uses, including timber production). Studies at the site have the following main research objectives: • To study the eco-physiological processes and rates of carbon accumulation and decomposi- tion in a mixed-age, tall, wet Eucalyptus obliqua forest originating from past natural wildfires • To measure the exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapor

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