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Performance of Felixer devices when faced with captive-held Spotted-tailed Quolls: Do they pose a risk to an endangered marsupial carnivore? Felixer装置在面对人工饲养的斑尾奎耳时的表现:它们会对濒危有袋食肉动物构成威胁吗?
IF 1.9 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12587
Andrew W. Claridge, Guy A. Ballard, Elliott A.G. Luck, Peter J.S. Fleming
{"title":"Performance of Felixer devices when faced with captive-held Spotted-tailed Quolls: Do they pose a risk to an endangered marsupial carnivore?","authors":"Andrew W. Claridge,&nbsp;Guy A. Ballard,&nbsp;Elliott A.G. Luck,&nbsp;Peter J.S. Fleming","doi":"10.1111/emr.12587","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12587","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Feral Cats are widespread and common across Australia, preying upon a wide diversity and large quantity of vertebrates and invertebrates. Curbing their impacts demands developing new control methods, as existing techniques are only usually partially successful. One such new method is the Felixer, a device that uses a combination of sensors to differentiate Feral Cats from other fauna before delivering a toxic gel to the fur of its target. Subsequently, this gel is then groomed and ingested. Before the Felixer can be more widely adopted, however, it is important to understand its target specificity. In a series of pen trials, we examined the ability of Felixer devices to discriminate Spotted-tailed Quolls, a cat-sized marsupial carnivore high on the list of species of concern. Over several weeks, multiple Spotted-tailed Quolls were each individually placed in pens with Felixers programmed in photograph only mode to take photographs only when sensors were triggered. Overall, there were almost 4000 detection events where Quolls passed in front of these devices and photographs taken. Nearly 1300 of these detections showed Quolls in a perpendicular or side-on position, ideally placed for the Felixer sensor arrays. Despite this exposure, there were no instances where the Felixer devices indicated that they would have activated on Quolls, had they been in lethal mode. This finding adds to recently published work in Tasmania, that also showed Quolls were highly unlikely to be incorrectly identified. Nevertheless, further studies of non-target discrimination by the Felixer device on other species of native wildlife is vital before they are made fully operational. This is particularly the case on the eastern seaboard of the country where the device has not yet been widely used and much remains to be learned about how they perform when faced with different species.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 2-3","pages":"89-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138632444","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}
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Carbon-based pelleting, soil ripping and herbicide application can be used to overcome plant recruitment barriers in Grey Stinkwood (Jacksonia furcellata) 碳基造粒、土壤撕裂和除草剂应用可用于克服灰臭木(Jacksonia furcellata)的植物招募障碍。
IF 1.9 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-08-23 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12583
Vanessa S. Brown, Todd E. Erickson, Richard J. Hobbs, Stanley Mastrantonis, Alison L. Ritchie
{"title":"Carbon-based pelleting, soil ripping and herbicide application can be used to overcome plant recruitment barriers in Grey Stinkwood (Jacksonia furcellata)","authors":"Vanessa S. Brown,&nbsp;Todd E. Erickson,&nbsp;Richard J. Hobbs,&nbsp;Stanley Mastrantonis,&nbsp;Alison L. Ritchie","doi":"10.1111/emr.12583","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12583","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Seed-based restoration efforts frequently experience limited success due to competition from invasive plant species and poor soil conditions. We aimed to alleviate these plant recruitment barriers through a combination of carbon-based seed enhancement technologies and commonly applied restoration management practices. Compared to non-pelleted (control) seeds, we tested seven seed enhancement technologies on Grey Stinkwood (<i>Jacksonia furcellata</i>), a perennial shrub common within the Banksia Woodlands of Western Australia, which included extruded pellets, coating and coins (a novel extrusion method), incorporated with activated carbon or biochar. We tested five management practices including combinations of herbicide and soil ripping at two locations (post-sand mine and Post-pine plantation). At the Post-pine site, coins incorporating biochar had the highest overall mean emergence (53%), and at the Post-mine site, extruded pellets containing activated carbon had the highest mean emergence (58%). In comparison, emergence was significantly lower from the non-pelleted seeds (44% and 45% respectively). Survival at the Post-mine site was also higher from biochar coins (31%) compared to the non-pelleted seeds (22%), and highest in plots with herbicide application followed by soil ripping (36%), compared to the control, in which no management practice was applied (16%). At the Post-pine site, survival was poor (&lt;10%), and seed treatment and management practice did not significantly affect seedling survival. Using carbon-based seed treatments and management practices, such as herbicide application followed by soil ripping, may help to overcome seedling emergence bottlenecks in direct seeding programmes. However, further examination into seedling survival is required, particularly within highly degraded settings, before seed enhancement technologies are used in large-scale seeding programmes.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 2-3","pages":"119-127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12583","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127683139","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}
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Assessment of tree fern browsing by introduced Sambar Deer in south-eastern Australia 澳大利亚东南部引进的桑巴鹿对树蕨的食性评价
IF 1.9 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12582
Ami Bennett
{"title":"Assessment of tree fern browsing by introduced Sambar Deer in south-eastern Australia","authors":"Ami Bennett","doi":"10.1111/emr.12582","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12582","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Browsing on tree ferns (<i>Cyathea australis</i> and <i>Dicksonia antarctica</i>) was assessed at Mt Toolebewong, Victoria, Australia, where a population of Sambar (<i>Rusa unicolor</i>), a large deer species, is known to occur and compared with tree fern browsing at Tarra-Bulga National Park, Victoria, where Sambar are uncommon. At Mt Toolebewong, 52% of surveyed tree ferns had been browsed, with most damage occurring on individuals up to 130 cm high and typically involving removal of most or all of a frond to the base of the rachis. In contrast, only 7% of tree ferns had been browsed at Tarra-Bulga, with none browsed above 85 cm and only the frond tips removed. Browsing of whole fronds on mid-size tree ferns at Mt Toolebewong is attributed to the population of Sambar, and the lower intensity of browsing on smaller tree ferns at Tarra-Bulga to native herbivores. Populations of Sambar in wet forests of south-eastern Australia may, therefore, hinder recruitment of tree ferns into larger size-classes, at least at sites where tree ferns are favoured browse. The potential ecological consequences and management implications are discussed. Information is lacking on the severity and spatial scale over which deer impact tree fern populations. Tree fern browsing may be locally severe with site- and height-based browse evidence suggesting that this can largely be attributed to introduced Sambar. Browsing by deer has the potential to decrease growth, reduce survival and prevent recruitment of tree ferns into larger class sizes, with potentially detrimental implications for tree fern populations, associated species such as epiphytic flora, and the structure and function of wet forest ecosystems. Collection of appropriate field data will provide a better understanding of tree fern browsing and identify if and where management intervention is required.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 2-3","pages":"137-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12582","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116936667","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}
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Finding the sweet spot in camera trapping: A global synthesis and meta-analysis of minimum sampling effort 寻找相机捕捉的最佳点:最小采样努力的全球综合和荟萃分析
IF 1.9 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-06-22 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12581
Nargol Ghazian, Christopher J. Lortie
{"title":"Finding the sweet spot in camera trapping: A global synthesis and meta-analysis of minimum sampling effort","authors":"Nargol Ghazian,&nbsp;Christopher J. Lortie","doi":"10.1111/emr.12581","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12581","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Camera traps are one of the most common tools in wildlife and conservation biology. Sampling can document and measure animal presence and activity. Captures can be used to estimate population parameters such as presence, abundance, habitat suitability, and resident species richness of specific populations. Effective camera trapping is relevant to conservation for many reasons. For instance, they can be used to inform pre- and post-restoration efforts, monitor the use of artificial structures by species and assess behaviours like predator–prey interactions. This sampling approach can aid in assessing diversity change, habitat change, pre- and post-restoration efforts, artificial structure effects, species presence, and animal behaviour. We reviewed the literature to collect data and estimate incidence effect size measures for both vertebrate abundance and vertebrate richness to examine the relative efficacy of deploying more camera traps for a given period in different ecosystems. Increasing sampling effort through an increased number of cameras significantly increased net positive abundance detection rates in grasslands and mixed ecosystems. Net richness detection rates in mixed, tropical, deciduous, and grassland ecosystems similarly increased with the number of cameras deployed. The total number of days, however, was not a significant predictor of abundance or richness rates detected in any ecosystem. These findings suggest that deploying relatively more cameras for relatively fewer days provides the most effective estimates of vertebrate abundance and richness for a region.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 2-3","pages":"145-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129236296","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}
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Orchids with scarce occurrence records: The case of the endangered Botany Bay Bearded Greenhood 稀少发生记录的兰花:以濒临灭绝的植物湾胡子兰为例
IF 1.5 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12575
Matthew Mo, Averill Wilson, Alice McGowan, Marie-Claire A. Demers, Greg L. Steenbeeke
{"title":"Orchids with scarce occurrence records: The case of the endangered Botany Bay Bearded Greenhood","authors":"Matthew Mo,&nbsp;Averill Wilson,&nbsp;Alice McGowan,&nbsp;Marie-Claire A. Demers,&nbsp;Greg L. Steenbeeke","doi":"10.1111/emr.12575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12575","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Poorly studied species are potentially under-prioritised by conservation programmes due to knowledge gaps presenting barriers to informing effective management strategies. The Botany Bay Bearded Greenhood, <i>Pterostylis</i> sp. Botany Bay, is an example of a poorly studied plant that is listed as endangered under both Commonwealth and New South Wales legislation. This study reports on archival surveys from 1998 to 2005 conducted at up to eight sites known to contain the Botany Bay Bearded Greenhood and follow-up surveys in 2022. The archival surveys found that the total population count ranged from 83 to 341 individuals. Mean numbers (± standard error) of seedlings, flowering individuals and individuals exhibiting capsule development recorded in the population were 43 ± 14, 33 ± 9 and 2 ± 1 respectively. The 2022 surveys did not detect the species. An area of potential habitat was derived from records in biodiversity databases, which determined a total historical extent of 1.38 ha restricted to the Kurnell Peninsula in Sydney, New South Wales. The priority next step is to gather contemporary data to confirm whether the Botany Bay Bearded Greenhood remains extant, which can be done by applied researchers, students, landholders and land managers, botanical practitioners and/or volunteers. For optimal species detection, we recommend undertaking formal surveys or opportunistic searches in historically known sites and replicating detection efforts across July–September periods to exploit seasonal flowering.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 1","pages":"56-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12575","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148469","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}
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Assessing the effectiveness of long-term monitoring of the Broad-toothed Rat in the Barrington Tops National Park, Australia 澳大利亚巴林顿托普斯国家公园宽齿鼠长期监测的有效性评估
IF 1.5 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12574
Charlotte Alley, Peter Beard, John Clulow, Andrea Griffin, Adam Fawcett, Geoffrey James, Matt W. Hayward
{"title":"Assessing the effectiveness of long-term monitoring of the Broad-toothed Rat in the Barrington Tops National Park, Australia","authors":"Charlotte Alley,&nbsp;Peter Beard,&nbsp;John Clulow,&nbsp;Andrea Griffin,&nbsp;Adam Fawcett,&nbsp;Geoffrey James,&nbsp;Matt W. Hayward","doi":"10.1111/emr.12574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12574","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biodiversity monitoring is crucial for effective conservation efforts. Effective monitoring allows managers to determine the status and trends of biodiversity, as well as the success of conservation actions. The population of the Broad-toothed Rats (<i>Mastacomys fuscus</i>) in the Barrington Tops National Park New South Wales, Australia has been monitored since 1999 via scat and live-trapping surveys. We reviewed the methods used and analysed the data produced with the aim of describing patterns of population change over time using a range of outcome variables and identifying different climate correlates. A secondary aim was to explore the use of population statistics that account for imperfect detection by comparing naïve occupancy, with an index of relative abundance based on trap effort, the latency to find scats during scat surveys and an occupancy model based on trapping surveys. Neither of these three methods accounts for detectability variation. Naïve occupancy decreased slightly over time, while the relative abundance based on trap effort revealed no evidence of change. Additionally, naïve occupancy decreased with increasing temperature while temperature had no clear impact on relative abundance. Finally, precipitation had no impact on either naïve occupancy or relative abundance. We found no evidence of a relationship between the latency to find scats and the index of relative abundance, suggesting that one or neither is related to actual abundance. Finally, a multi-season occupancy model found occupancy probability to be 0.78 ± 0.23 (standard error); detection probability as 0.51 ± 0.06; seasonal colonisation rate as 0.36 ± 0.13 and seasonal extinction rate at 0.44 ± 0.13. We conclude that despite significant investment in monitoring, this historical data set does not allow managers to ascertain whether population change has occurred and to identify potential drivers of change. Careful consideration of future methods, in particular, whether there is imperfect detection in scat surveys, will help to inform future monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 1","pages":"47-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12574","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148468","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}
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Old Man Saltbush mortality following fire challenges the resilience of post-mine rehabilitation in central Queensland, Australia 澳大利亚昆士兰州中部Saltbush老人火灾后死亡,挑战灾后恢复的复原力
IF 1.5 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-04-13 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12579
Phillip B. McKenna, Natasha Ufer, Vanessa Glenn, David Doley, Stuart Phinn, Peter D. Erskine
{"title":"Old Man Saltbush mortality following fire challenges the resilience of post-mine rehabilitation in central Queensland, Australia","authors":"Phillip B. McKenna,&nbsp;Natasha Ufer,&nbsp;Vanessa Glenn,&nbsp;David Doley,&nbsp;Stuart Phinn,&nbsp;Peter D. Erskine","doi":"10.1111/emr.12579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12579","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Landscape rehabilitation following mining is required to be resilient to disturbance impacts such as fire, drought and disease. As mining companies undergo the process of rehabilitation certification and mine closure, there are notable knowledge gaps on the ecological risks associated with mature rehabilitated landscapes, based largely on the assumption that rehabilitation is analogous to reference communities. However, the response to fire disturbance across a range of landscapes remains largely untested and in particular there is limited understanding of recovery traits of plant species that occur naturally or are commonly seeded into rehabilitation. In August 2018, a controlled fire was applied to 37 hectares of 12-year-old coal-mine rehabilitation in central Queensland, Australia. We used a combination of (i) ground plot surveys and (ii) drone imagery to compare the vegetation response of burnt woody species to unburnt controls prior to, and for, two years following the fire. The survival of the most dominant shrub species found on the rehabilitation site was significantly impacted by the fire. Old Man Saltbush (<i>Atriplex nummularia</i> Lindl. subsp. <i>nummularia</i>) recorded significant post-fire mortality, with ground surveys recording an average reduction of 89% of stems per hectare across the burnt site, while unburnt controls remained unchanged. The plot data analysis was supported with high spatial and temporal resolution drone imagery, classified using a Random Forest machine-learning approach. Change analysis of these maps showed a significant decline of 82% in Old Man Saltbush plant density and 92% reduction in foliage cover following the fire. In addition, the mean canopy area of individual Old Man Saltbush shrubs reduced significantly from a pre-fire mean of 11.3 to 4.8 m<sup>2</sup> two years following the fire. A spatial proximity analysis showed that those individuals that survived the fire were located significantly closer to unburnt areas and bare spoil, indicating that discontinuous ground fuel loads can greatly improve the survivability of individuals. This study provides new evidence on the contested fire sensitivity of Old Man Salt bush and demonstrates the risk that future climate-driven extreme events may have on the resilience of novel ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 1","pages":"36-46"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50131001","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}
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Promoting Indigenous-led restoration: The Seed and Nursery Industry Forum for Aboriginal Organisations, Northam, Western Australia, September 2022 促进土著主导的恢复:土著组织种子和苗圃产业论坛,西澳大利亚州诺瑟姆,2022年9月
IF 1.5 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-04-11 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12580
Christian Miller-Sabbioni, Stephen van Leeuwen, Andrew T. Knight, Kingsley Dixon, Shane Turner, Michael Just, Simone Pedrini
{"title":"Promoting Indigenous-led restoration: The Seed and Nursery Industry Forum for Aboriginal Organisations, Northam, Western Australia, September 2022","authors":"Christian Miller-Sabbioni,&nbsp;Stephen van Leeuwen,&nbsp;Andrew T. Knight,&nbsp;Kingsley Dixon,&nbsp;Shane Turner,&nbsp;Michael Just,&nbsp;Simone Pedrini","doi":"10.1111/emr.12580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12580","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bilya Bilya Koort Boodja Centre for Nyoongar Culture and Environmental Knowledge in Northam, Western Australia, was the location for this event where legislators, practitioners, academics, Nyoongar Elders, and key representatives for Traditional Steward groups gathered to discuss the current issues and future trajectory of the emerging Indigenous nursery sector, specifically the activities of native seed and seedling supply chain. These activities are key components of the emerging Indigenous-led restoration economy and indispensable for biodiverse restoration of degraded ecosystems at the landscape scale. Key outcomes included: improved awareness in participants about activities being undertaken across the restoration economy sector; the acknowledgement of a disjunction between academia and business practice, and the realisation that bridging the gap between knowledge and action is becoming increasingly urgent.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 1","pages":"62-65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12580","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148489","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}
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Evaluating the Melbourne Strategic Assessment—Elegant on process, currently failing on implementation 评估墨尔本战略评估——流程优雅,目前未能实施
IF 1.5 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12578
Kim W Lowe, Geoffrey Wescott
{"title":"Evaluating the Melbourne Strategic Assessment—Elegant on process, currently failing on implementation","authors":"Kim W Lowe,&nbsp;Geoffrey Wescott","doi":"10.1111/emr.12578","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12578","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper provides a critical analysis of the development and current outcomes of Australia's first endorsed strategic assessment under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, namely, the Melbourne Strategic Assessment. It covers progress towards protection of a number of Nationally Significant Species and Ecological Communities – most notably, the native grassland communities immediately adjacent to Melbourne's Urban Growth Boundary. The Commonwealth approval to protect biodiversity and allow urban development was made in 2010 and it aimed to achieve its outcomes by 2020. These outcomes included providing new land for homes, for new transport corridors, and for conservation of biodiversity. Natural Temperate Grassland (4,667 ha), Grassy Eucalypt Woodland (709 ha) and seven other Matters of National Environmental Significance will be impacted. Mitigation for this is establishment of 15,000 ha of grassland reserves, 1,200 ha of grassy woodland reserves, over 4,000 ha of other land zoned for conservation and 300 ha of wetland restoration. We conclude that the Melbourne Strategic Assessment has been a success in terms of the elegance and comprehensiveness of the approach, in cooperation between the levels of government, in the economic benefits, and in some aspects of social engagement of the agreement. However, the achievement of environmental outcomes must be currently considered a failure due to poor implementation. This failure includes not meeting the agreed 10 year deadline for land acquisition and management, poor monitoring and protection of set-aside areas, and in reporting. We offer suggestions for how these current shortcomings could be overcome. These align well with the recommendations of the review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (The independent statutory review of the Act in 2020) and include the establishment of the proposed Office of Compliance and Enforcement, the adoption of National Environmental Standards and the reforms regarding the role of Indigenous Australians in strategic assessments. If these were adopted, we conclude that the strategic assessment approach should be more widely used because of the more holistic approach and efficiencies that it envisages compared with site by site approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 1","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12578","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50127161","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}
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Observations on the utilisation of a restored wildlife corridor by echo-locating microbats in North Queensland's Wet Tropics 通过回声定位微卫星对北昆士兰湿热带恢复野生动物走廊利用情况的观察
IF 1.5 4区 环境科学与生态学
Ecological Management & Restoration Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1111/emr.12576
Nigel Tucker, Greg Ford
{"title":"Observations on the utilisation of a restored wildlife corridor by echo-locating microbats in North Queensland's Wet Tropics","authors":"Nigel Tucker,&nbsp;Greg Ford","doi":"10.1111/emr.12576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12576","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Microbat studies are uncommon in the Wet Tropics of north-east Queensland, despite the group comprising 20% of the bioregion's mammal fauna. The significance of fragmentation and habitat connectivity to the echolocating insectivore group is unknown. Over a 12-month period in 2021–2022, microbat presence was recorded in a 25-year-old restored wildlife corridor 1.2 km in length. We deployed Anabat detectors in the restored corridor, in adjacent open paddocks and in mature rainforest at either end of the corridor. Species in reference forest and corridor vegetation were consistently ‘clutter-adapted’ bats, with low aspect ratio wings; there was little overlap with high aspect ratio species of the open pasture. Low aspect ratio microbats appear to respond to the similarity in structure between restored and adjacent natural vegetation. Re-establishing structural and functional connectivity may improve the local persistence of ‘clutter-adapted’ microbats.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"24 1","pages":"7-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50127163","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}
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