Recruitment of native woody species in landscapes
Landscape Futures Alliance
Processes of Natural Eucalypt Regeneration within the Goulburn Broken Catchement
Natural regeneration is potentially a cost-effective and efficient contributor or replacement for active revegetation strategies such as tubestock planting or direct seeding. However, its practicability is limited by our current lack of understanding of how climate variability and site and management factors influence seed availability, germination and survival and growth of regenerating plants. Determining and better understanding how these factors influence regeneration processes will increase the likelihood of investing in successful and cost-effective natural regeneration.
The aim of this project is to understand and develop appropriate management actions for natural Eucalypt regeneration through the development of monitoring schemes and targeted experimental research. The results of these monitoring and experimental trials will aid the development of best management practices (BMPs) to encourage and maintain regenerating native vegetation, both on private properties and in public remnants and reserves. It will further our currently limited understanding of how to manipulate vegetation structure to enhance the probability of natural regeneration.
Project home: University of Melbourne (external link)
Key personnel
Chief Investigators
Dr Peter Vesk
School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Email: pvesk@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Josh Dorrough
Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, DSE
Email: Josh.Dorrough@csiro.au
Project Team
Rhiannon Apted
School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Email: rapted@unimelb.edu.au
Industry support/Collaborators
Goulburn Broken CMA Bush Returns (external link)
Contact
For any questions or clarification please don’t hestitate to contact David Duncan, LFA coordinator (03 9450 8750)
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This document was last reviewed on 13/12/2011