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- Title
Ecological restoration of cleared agricultural land in Gondwana Link: lifting the bar at ‘Peniup’.
- Authors
Jonson, Justin
- Abstract
Large scale ecological restoration in a highly heterogeneous and species-rich landscape requires big commitment to fine scale planning. In the southwest of Western Australia, in the Fitz-Stirling area of Gondwana Link, the Peniup Restoration project aimed to improve on such works. A multi-faceted approach was employed to re-establish a self-replicating biologically diverse plant system, ecologically informed in its design and consistent with the heterogeneous mosaic of plant associations found in the surrounding landscape. Outcomes from the project included a 950-ha restoration map composed of nine newly developed soil landscape/vegetation associations. A new 6 m wide direct seeding machine was developed to improve delivery and spatial configuration of establishing plants. These two developments were put to the test in 2008 through a 250 ha biodiverse carbon-funded restoration effort. This paper summarises the approaches used and initial results of those works.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; AGRICULTURAL landscape management; PLANT communities; BIOTIC communities; RESTORATION ecology
- Publication
Ecological Management & Restoration, 2010, Vol 11, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
1442-7001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1442-8903.2010.00508.x