Ecological Management & Restoration最新文献

{"title":"Applying biocultural research protocols in ecology: Insider and outsider experiences from Australia","authors":"Patrick Cooke,&nbsp;Monica Fahey,&nbsp;Emilie J. Ens,&nbsp;Margaret Raven,&nbsp;Philip A. Clarke,&nbsp;Maurizio Rossetto,&nbsp;Gerry Turpin","doi":"10.1111/emr.12545","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12545","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientific researchers are increasingly mandated by global to local conservation policy and research ethics guidelines. Breakdowns occur due to misunderstandings around expected protocols of engagement and cooperation, which are compounded by lack of broader awareness of differences in cultural values, priorities and knowledge systems. Using first-hand experiences, we outline eight key protocols and guidelines that researchers should consider when undertaking research with Indigenous peoples, or on Indigenous Country, through exploration of biocultural protocols and guidelines within Australian and Indigenous customary laws. We use the onion as a metaphor to highlight the layers of protocols and guidelines that researchers can peel back to guide their research from international to local scales, with ethics around the research question at the core. This paper draws on the perspectives and experiences of an Indigenous researcher (as ‘insider’/‘outsider’) and non-Indigenous researcher (‘outsider’), working on a cross-cultural and multidisciplinary investigation of past Aboriginal dispersal of rainforest trees on the Australian east coast. <i>This paper is part of the special issue ‘Indigenous and cross-cultural ecology - perspectives from Australia’ published in</i> Ecological Management &amp; Restoration.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"64-74"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12545","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82207096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cross-cultural collaboration leads to greater understanding of the rare Spectacled Hare-wallaby in the west Kimberley, Western Australia","authors":"Michael L. Wysong,&nbsp;Pius Gregory,&nbsp;Alexander W. T. Watson,&nbsp;Leigh-Ann Woolley,&nbsp;Christopher W. Parker,&nbsp;Yawuru Country Managers,&nbsp;Karajarri Rangers,&nbsp;Nyikina Mangala Rangers","doi":"10.1111/emr.12524","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12524","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cross-cultural collaboration between Yawuru Country Managers (Rangers) and WWF-Australia ecologists led to new detections of the Spectacled Hare-wallaby (SHW), (<i>Lagorchestes conspicillatus</i>) in the west Kimberley region of Western Australia where it was presumed to be locally extirpated. This collaboration relied on the expertise of the Yawuru Country Managers to select specific locations for targeted field surveys and resulted in the confirmation of SHW on the Yawuru IPA for the first time in a decade. Subsequent remote camera trap surveys over a larger area included collaboration with two additional neighbouring Indigenous ranger groups, Karrajarri and Nyikina Mangala. These surveys investigated the spatial and temporal relationship between SHW and other mammals which may threaten (e.g., feral Cat [<i>Felis catus</i>], Dingo [<i>Canis familiaris dingo</i>]) or compete (e.g., Agile Wallaby [<i>Macropus agilis</i>]; Cattle [<i>Bos taurus</i>]) with them. We found a negative relationship between SHW and cat activity, suggesting that cats may limit the activity or abundance of SHW. Temporal portioning was evident between SHW and both Cattle and Agile Wallaby suggesting that SHW may avoid times when these species are most active. Further, we found a negative relationship between SHW occurrence and distance to fire scar edge burnt in current or previous fire season. This edge habitat is likely important to SHW because they may require recently burnt areas to forage and dense unburnt areas to shelter. This project highlights the benefits of cross-cultural research and monitoring partnerships with Indigenous rangers as active observers and managers of their traditional lands.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"139-149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12524","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75909167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning together: developing collaborative monitoring of intertidal invertebrates in the Karajarri IPA, north-western Australia","authors":"Matilda Murley,&nbsp;Ann Grand,&nbsp;Jane Prince,&nbsp; Karajarri Rangers","doi":"10.1111/emr.12551","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12551","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Karajarri Indigenous Protected Area, in the south-west Kimberley, is home to vast intertidal rock platforms that form a culturally and ecologically important environment for Karajarri Traditional Owners and wider Bidyadanga community. Karajarri Rangers initiated a collaborative partnership with researchers to devise an intertidal invertebrate monitoring protocol to meet the requirements of their Healthy Country Plan and sustainably manage their cultural harvesting. The project aimed to design and trial a monitoring protocol that blended Indigenous ecological knowledge and values with western scientific rigour. To investigate and document the community’s ecological knowledge of marine resources, a series of Ranger interviews, focus groups and collaborative fieldwork was conducted. Data collected from these qualitative methods provided valuable insights into knowledge of the intertidal environment and fauna and the community’s management aspirations and priorities. Informed by these data, a monitoring protocol was cross-culturally designed to combine Indigenous knowledge and values within a western scientific framework. Two methodologies were piloted, focusing on a small subset of culturally significant target species. Although both were successful, the trial indicated that Rangers preferred abundance-focused methods for ecological monitoring. Further refinement of the monitoring protocol is required to build western science knowledge of the ecosystem and meet Ranger management goals. However, this study provided the basis of future monitoring strategies for Karajarri Rangers, formed a lasting collaborative partnership and is a useful exploration of Indigenous preferred approaches to western scientific monitoring of intertidal rock platforms.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"53-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72472365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Restoring the Midlands of Tasmania: An introduction","authors":"Neil J. Davidson,&nbsp;Tanya G. Bailey,&nbsp;Sebastian Burgess","doi":"10.1111/emr.12522","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12522","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the dawn of the Anthropocene, with the imminent threat of climate change delivering 3–4°C rise in temperature by the end of the century and biodiversity loss across the globe, restoration projects need to focus on re-establishing connectivity in vegetation structure at a landscape scale to facilitate the movement of wildlife. To achieve this requires long-term commitment, robust partnerships and planning and excellent planting technology underpinned by research. In this Special Issue, consisting of 15 papers, we present a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, science-based approach to environmental restoration, focused on a single geographic region, the Midlands of Tasmania. This introductory paper describes the breadth of the material covered in the series and sets the scene for following papers by describing the Midlands, its geography, climate and history, its extraordinary natural values as a biodiversity hotspot, the degree of degradation that has resulted from 200 years of intensive farming and the objectives of the Midlands restoration project. The Midlands also offers opportunities as a model system for landscape scale restoration given it is a circumscribed region, heterogeneous in land forms and land uses. Furthermore, in land management, there is a high level of cooperation between land owners, government departments, environmental agencies and university researchers. We describe how the contributions from a wide range of disciplines can be focused to meet the challenges of ecological restoration in highly altered agricultural landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"22 S2","pages":"3-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12522","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80975237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recreational fishers contribute to path formation in subalpine vegetation","authors":"Busola Christianah Adedokun,&nbsp;James Barrie Kirkpatrick,&nbsp;Melinda Therese McHenry","doi":"10.1111/emr.12541","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12541","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The role of recreational fishers forming paths (routes of concentrated passage characterised by short vegetation or ground indentation) as they gain access to wilderness waterbodies has not been well documented in Australia. Recreational use for trout and tournament fly fishing has increased in the Central Plateau of Tasmania; therefore, it is important to determine the human contribution to path formation and its potential consequences for biodiversity conservation in this area of high conservation value. We predicted that paths parallel to waterbodies experienced more human traffic than orthogonal paths. Across 36 sites at different distances from roads, a parallel and orthogonal path to lakeshore were sampled using eight, 1 × 1 m quadrats randomly located along each path within a 10 × 10-m plot. Recorded for each quadrat were the path widths, height difference between centre of paths and adjacent vegetation (path depth), vegetation types on and adjacent to paths, Bennetts Wallaby (<i>Notamacropus rufogriseus</i>) and Wombat (<i>Vombatus ursinus</i>) faecal numbers. General linear models indicated that path width was greater on parallel than orthogonal paths and declined with distance from roads. Path depth, however, was not affected by distance from roads but was shallower than orthogonal paths. Separate models used to test the potential effects of edge vegetation type, or the covariates Wallaby and Wombat scats did not have significant effects on-path variables. Paths encircling or orthogonal to Central Plateau lakes appear different floristically to adjacent vegetation communities, nonetheless. Heath and tussock grassland were largely absent from paths, whereas grassland and herbfield communities were infrequently observed off paths. Herbfield and grassland are rarer communities than heath and tussock grassland, which, in the context of a lack of exposure to erosion, suggests a conservation benefit of paths at present usage levels. The human contribution to parallel path conditions is likely to be high, given the results from the study, so monitoring of change is desirable, especially if predicted increasing human activity eventuates in this area.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"74-80"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87162757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recruitment and demographic structure of floodplain tree species in the Queensland Murray-Darling basin, Australia","authors":"Michael R. Ngugi,&nbsp;Victor J. Neldner,&nbsp;Ralph M. Dowling,&nbsp;Jiaorong Li","doi":"10.1111/emr.12525","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12525","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Globally, floodplain and riparian forests are rapidly declining ecosystems due to anthropogenic influences coupled with a changing climate. In the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia, little is known about the demographic structural status and recruitment of floodplain and riparian tree species. The aim of this study is to provide a baseline assessment of the current demographic structure of the ecosystem-defining tree species: River Red Gum (<i>Eucalyptus camaldulensis</i>), Coolibah (<i>Eucalyptus coolabah</i>), Black Box (<i>Eucalyptus largiflorens</i>) and River Cooba (<i>Acacia stenophylla</i>) within the basin in Queensland. Tree size data were collected from 131 plots of 0.25 ha located along major waterways and the abundance of individuals at the seedling, young tree, mature and senescent life cycle stages was determined. The diameter size distribution for the four species approximated a negative exponential distribution (reverse J-curve). Low tree abundance in the &lt; 10-cm diameter class in all the species relative to the reverse J-curve suggested low recruitment and possible early evidence of a decline in the sustainability of the populations according to the Law of de Liocourt. This low abundance of young trees was more pronounced in Black Box and extended to the &lt; 20-cm diameter class, but this species was not well replicated, and more data are required. In addition, the low abundance of recruitment trees occurred concurrently with the observed below average rainfall and erratic rainfall distribution in the last two decades relative to long-term totals. These results suggest a need for management interventions to foster seedling recruitment such as grazing management and tree planting programmes to ensure species establishment and survival along basin waterways.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"64-73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78660465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lessons learned from small-scale coral outplanting intervention at a restoration site on the Great Barrier Reef","authors":"Nathan Cook,&nbsp;Adam Smith,&nbsp;Al Songcuan,&nbsp;Daniel Cassidy,&nbsp;Greta Sartori,&nbsp;Ian McLeod","doi":"10.1111/emr.12547","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12547","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Scientific, tourism and non-government organisations collaborated to design and undertake a small-scale coral outplanting intervention at Fitzroy Island, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Cairns, Australia. Activities were implemented to assist recovery of a reef showing signs of reduced coral cover after recent coral bleaching and to trial potential for implementation of work of this kind by community members. In December 2017, 240 coral fragments were collected and deployed on mid-water coral nursery infrastructure. Ten months later, 96 corals (˜15 cm) were outplanted onto bare sections of the surrounding reef rock at depths of 2–8 m. Monitoring was undertaken to measure changes in coral cover at treatment and control locations to determine the potential of using coral outplanting intervention to assist the recovery of degraded reefs. We found no significant difference in live coral cover between controls and treatment over a 12-month period. Although statistically insignificant, we observed an increase in live coral cover in treatment plots (9.8%) and control plots (2.2%), indicating natural recovery processes occurring across the reef. Total number of fish species and abundance increased significantly over time. Although the outplanting may not have been needed in this case, as a pilot project and the first coral nursery and active reef restoration project in the GBR Marine Park, the research provided valuable lessons associated with project collaboration and planning, site selection, monitoring and natural recovery vs restoration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"89-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12547","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77543329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate change and the suitability of local and non‐local species for ecosystem restoration","authors":"P. Harrison","doi":"10.1111/emr.12520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82515808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating methods for controlling feral cats that minimise non-target impacts at Taunton National Park (Scientific)","authors":"John Augusteyn,&nbsp;Barry Nolan","doi":"10.1111/emr.12536","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12536","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Feral Cat (<i>Felis catus</i>) (cat) is a predator of the Bridled Nail-Tailed Wallaby (BNTW) (<i>Onychogalea frenata</i>) living at Taunton National Park (Scientific) (Taunton). The aim of this study was to determine if traps and poison baits could be used to control feral cats without impacting non-target species at Taunton. The techniques trialled included poison fresh meat baits and several types of traps presented in different ways and with various lures. Thirty-one percent of fresh meat baits was taken during bait uptake trials; corvids removed 40% of these and dogs removed 16%. Cats were not detected, on camera traps, taking a bait. The elevated soft-jaw traps (81 trap nights/cat) and single-entry cage traps (98 trap nights/cat) were found to be the most successful of all the trap types trialled and had low amounts of by-catch. Other trap types trialled took more than 166 trap nights to catch a cat. The elevated soft-jaw trap configurations had the lowest amount of by-catch (avg. 0.33%), and the log trap had the highest amount of by-catch (1%). Ground-set traps successfully trapped cats (305 trap nights/cat) but caught more by-catch (0.9%) compared to the elevated soft-jaw trap types and most wallabies caught in these traps had to be euthanised.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"43-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73457979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Smoke and heat can increase germination of common wildflowers and grasses—implications for conservation and restoration of critically endangered grassy ecosystems","authors":"Joshua A. Hodges,&nbsp;Jodi N. Price,&nbsp;Adrienne B. Nicotra,&nbsp;Lydia K. Guja","doi":"10.1111/emr.12533","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12533","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Critically endangered grasslands and grassy woodlands were once widespread across south-eastern Australia. However, more than 200 years of European land use means less than 1% of their pre-European extent remains today. Conservation and restoration of these ecosystems involves reintroducing fire to periodically reduce competition and allow smaller species to establish. Furthermore, seeds of native species are sown – but often fail to establish as many forbs and grasses are hard-to-germinate. Therefore, data on how these species respond to fire-related germination cues, such as smoke and heat, can benefit our understanding of both how species respond to fire and identify treatments which can be used to increase germination. We conducted a germination trial to determine if smoke and heat cues increase percent germination and germination speed of 55 common grassy ecosystem species. Fire cues increased germination speed and/or percent germination of 44 of the 55 study species. These results have three implications for grassy ecosystem conservation and restoration: (i) fire may aid conservation by maximizing germination of native species; (ii) pre-treating seed with smoke and/or heat prior to sowing may increase germination when restoring these ecosystems via direct seeding; and (iii) smoke and heat can be used to increase germination when growing seedlings for plantings.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"94-99"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88665499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}