Long-term projects - Hidden Vale Research Station

From the beginning of our partnership, UQ and the Turner Family Foundation have worked together to improve wildlife management practices and ex situ and in situ conservation through effective applied research.

Our research projects have ranged from investigating the physiology of Australian marsupials to understanding and developing biodiversity restoration strategies at a landscape scale, and have made significant impact.

See below for current long-term projects based at Hidden Vale.

Forest Thinning for Ecosystem Restoration

The overarching aim of this proposed thinning experiment is to restore structure, floristics, habitat and ecological processes. Key to this is reducing competition among stems to accelerate the recovery of retained stems.

Interactions between Fire Regimes and Invasive Plants

To establish an evidence-based management framework for grassy woodlands of southeast Queensland, by evaluating how variation in fire frequency affects the composition and function of native plant communities.

Hidden Vale Biodiversity Monitoring Program

This robust monitoring program will stocktake and track the abundance and diversity of wildlife—native mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians—across Hidden Vale, providing essential ongoing feedback on the effects of restoration efforts.