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{"title":"Monitoring populations and threats to range-restricted freshwater fishes: A case study of the Stocky Galaxias (Galaxias tantangara)","authors":"Tyrone H. Lavery,&nbsp;David B. Lindenmayer,&nbsp;Hugh Allan,&nbsp;Darren Southwell,&nbsp;John C. Z. Woinarski,&nbsp;Mark Lintermans","doi":"10.1111/emr.12562","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12562","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Monitoring is critical for conservation, to track the status of threatened species, assess the relative impacts of threats, inform management responses and prioritise them according to their efficacy. Globally, freshwater fish are impacted by a range of threats including deterioration in water quality, climate change, habitat loss and degradation, introduced predators and herbivores, and wildfire. Monitoring of freshwater fish can be challenging because aquatic conditions can make detecting and identifying population trends difficult for many species. Galaxiidae is the most speciose family of Gondwanan-distributed freshwater fishes, and over 75% of species assessed by the IUCN Red List have been classified as threatened. Many Australian galaxiids are highly imperilled and monitoring effort and adequacy is low. We prepared a detailed monitoring plan for the Stocky Galaxias (<i>Galaxias tantangara</i>) that is representative of the conservation status and level of threat facing many congeneric and other similar species. Our protocol provides details of species biology, pertinent threats, and management options with sampling methods to gather these data, and options to link with management actions for maximum benefit. Improved monitoring linked with threat management should improve the conservation status of Stocky Galaxias. By providing this example, we have sought to improve monitoring for range-restricted freshwater fishes more generally.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 2","pages":"166-174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12562","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128263437","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":"Biodiversity on private land: Lessons from the Mid-Murray Valley in South-eastern Australia","authors":"Wesley S. Ward,&nbsp;Jennifer Bond,&nbsp;Louise Burge,&nbsp;John Conallin,&nbsp;Colin (Max) Finlayson,&nbsp;Damian Michael,&nbsp;Shelley Scoullar,&nbsp;Michael Vanderzee,&nbsp;Adam Wettenhall","doi":"10.1111/emr.12560","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12560","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we use an autoethnographic approach to explore relationships between landholders and government agencies and natural resource management projects. We use this exploration to argue for a holistic, collaborative approach to decision making around the implementation of biodiversity conservation on private and public land. This approach aligns with principles underpinning reconciliation ecology, which emphasises the inclusion of grass-roots communities for promoting biodiversity conservation in human-dominated landscapes where approaches to the management of natural resources may be contested. We present three projects (Environmental Champions; Fencing Incentive programmes; Plains-wanderer programme) and other research from the Mid-Murray Valley region of southern New South Wales to highlight the positive and negative aspects of relationships between landholders and others in natural resource management. We argue that for a more collaborative approach; we need to build relationships based on understanding, trust, respect, ownership and partnerships between rural communities, landholders, education and research institutions and government agencies as recognised in reconciliation ecology.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 2","pages":"175-183"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12560","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114846199","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":"A bird occupancy estimator for land practitioners in the NSW South Western Slopes bioregion","authors":"Kassel Liam Hingee,&nbsp;David B. Lindenmayer,&nbsp;Daniel Florance,&nbsp;Angelina Siegrist","doi":"10.1111/emr.12556","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12556","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biodiversity loss is a major issue internationally and within Australia, with major restoration efforts to recover native biota focussing on agricultural landscapes. We introduce a free new webtool, BirdCast [https://sustfarm.shinyapps.io/BirdCast/], for estimating the primarily native bird biodiversity in Box Gum Grassy Woodlands within the NSW South Western Slopes bioregion. The tool has potential to demonstrate farm-scale bird biodiversity dividends generated from past and future investments in vegetation management and restoration programmes. BirdCast incorporates 60 of the most commonly encountered bird species and includes visualisations, data export and summary reports for printing. It is underpinned by a large joint-species distribution model fitted to 17 years of empirical data.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 2","pages":"184-193"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12556","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126908999","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":"Managing macropods without poisoning ecosystems","authors":"Jordan O. Hampton,&nbsp;James M. Pay,&nbsp;Todd E. Katzner,&nbsp;Jon M. Arnemo,&nbsp;Mark A. Pokras,&nbsp;Eric Buenz,&nbsp;Niels Kanstrup,&nbsp;Vernon G. Thomas,&nbsp;Marcela Uhart,&nbsp;Sergio A. Lambertucci,&nbsp;Oliver Krone,&nbsp;Navinder J. Singh,&nbsp;Vinny Naidoo,&nbsp;Mayumi Ishizuka,&nbsp;Keisuke Saito,&nbsp;Björn Helander,&nbsp;Rhys E. Green","doi":"10.1111/emr.12555","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12555","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A recent review of the management of hyperabundant macropods in Australia proposed that expanded professional shooting is likely to lead to better biodiversity and animal welfare outcomes. While the tenets of this general argument are sound, it overlooks one important issue for biodiversity and animal health and welfare: reliance on toxic lead-based ammunition. Lead poisoning poses a major threat to Australia's wildlife scavengers. Current proposals to expand professional macropod shooting would see tonnes of an extremely toxic and persistent heavy metal continue to be introduced into Australian environments. This contrasts with trends in many other countries, where lead ammunition is, through legislation or voluntary programs, being phased out. Fortunately, there are alternatives to lead ammunition that could be investigated and adopted for improved macropod management. A transition to lead-free ammunition would allow the broad environmental and animal welfare goals desired from macropod management to be pursued without secondarily and unintentionally poisoning scavengers. Through this article, we hope to increase awareness of this issue and encourage discussion of this potential change.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 2","pages":"153-157"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12555","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134012571","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":"Identifying and assessing assisted colonisation sites for a frog species threatened by chytrid fungus","authors":"Ben C. Scheele,&nbsp;Renee L. Brawata,&nbsp;Emily P. Hoffmann,&nbsp;Rachael Loneragan,&nbsp;Sarah May,&nbsp;Jennifer Pierson,&nbsp;Jarrod D. Sopniewski,&nbsp;Brenton von Takach","doi":"10.1111/emr.12554","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12554","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The intentional movement of species outside their indigenous range – assisted colonisation – is an emerging tool in conservation. Here, we outline the process developed to identify and assess candidate sites for assisted colonisation of the critically endangered Northern Corroboree Frog (<i>Pseudophryne pengilleyi</i>), a range-restricted species highly threatened by chytrid fungus. We first investigated the mechanisms associated with the persistence of Northern Corroboree Frog populations with chytrid fungus and then used a combination of desktop and field surveys to identify and assess sites based on habitat suitability, capacity to allow coexistence with chytrid fungus and hydrological properties. Candidate sites were further assessed by comparing environmental and climatic conditions to historical and persisting sites. Together, these methods allowed us to identify a site that appears to be highly suitable for the species. The process outlined here provides a template for assessing assisted colonisation sites for species where ongoing threats rule out recipient sites within their indigenous range.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 2","pages":"194-198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126463684","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":"Looking to the future, building on the past","authors":"Andrew T. Knight,&nbsp;Tein McDonald","doi":"10.1111/emr.12552","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12552","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The social-ecological systems in which we live and work are highly dynamic, with change intrinsic and pervasive. It is this source of uncertainty that makes the use, conservation and restoration of nature so challenging, but it is also a source of much of the richness and inspiration that we find in nature. Change takes many forms: both in terms of the evolution of species, shifting ecological patterns and processes, and in terms of the ways societies evolve, changing the ways we interact with our physical environment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Landholders, volunteers, students, policy-makers, researchers and practitioners paradoxically seek to ensure the persistence of nature through working with change; through directing pattern and process along desirable trajectories. Some elements may be relatively amenable to change while others consistently prove highly challenging. Further, sometimes our interventions produce unanticipated perverse outcomes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ecological Management &amp; Restoration&lt;/i&gt; has been reporting on activities aimed at understanding and driving changes within social-ecological systems since 2000. During this time, much as with social-ecological systems, the Journal has undergone and navigated several major and important changes as it has evolved.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One change that the Journal has recently navigated is a transition in leadership – and this editorial is jointly penned by the incoming Editor-in Chief Andrew Knight and outgoing Editor Tein McDonald. As the journal’s long-time Editor, Tein has overseen the Journal since its inception in 2000. During her tenure, the journal has sought to effect positive change in the journal publishing world in terms of encouraging practitioner and manager contributions and readership in Australasia. The purpose of this is to lessen the gap between researchers and managers and thus improve the management of biodiversity in our region. Achieving progress with this aspiration has not always been easy. While affiliate relationships with practitioner organisations started early and are increasing, our application for listing the journal on the &lt;i&gt;Web of Science&lt;/i&gt; to gain an Impact Factor resulted in suggestions from the assessors that the journal become less management focused. This pressure was resisted by the journal's Board, a commitment that was ultimately rewarded with a relatively high Impact Factor for an applied science journal, showing that navigating change sometimes requires not only flexibility but persistence. However, further rapid change in the world of publishing is now presenting new challenges. The more recent (highly desirable) push for Open Access for all journals, for example, has the potential to limit the inclusion of practitioner-led contributions in &lt;i&gt;Ecological Management &amp; Restoration&lt;/i&gt; and other journals unless solutions can be found. The Ecological Society of Australia, who takes seriously its commitment to engaging with landholders, volunteers, students, policy-makers and p","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12552","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90872673","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":"Australian grassy community restoration: Recognizing what is achievable and charting a way forward","authors":"Paul Gibson-Roy","doi":"10.1111/emr.12546","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12546","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given the urgent need for revegetation to address the climate and biodiversity crises, Paul Gibson-Roy describes here how grassy ecosystem restoration technologies are ripe for scaling up. Buoyed by local and other examples of success he calls for action by regulators and the agricultural, land management and restoration sectors to refine legislation and tailor their environmental programs to, with gusto, support complex grassy ecosystem restoration at scale to deliver both biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"10-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77954542","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":"Safer Gardens: Plant Flammability and Planning for Fire Lesley Corbett. Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, Victoria, 2021. Paperback Price: AUD$55.00 or e-book: AUD$15.08 (ISBN: 978-1-922454-60-7 (Paperback). ISBN: 978-1-922454-61-4 (e-book)","authors":"Lisa Yallamas","doi":"10.1111/emr.12548","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76753532","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":"The Mulloon Rehydration Initiative: The project’s establishment and monitoring framework","authors":"Luke Peel,&nbsp;Peter Hazell,&nbsp;Tony Bernardi,&nbsp;Stephen Dovers,&nbsp;David Freudenberger,&nbsp;Carolyn Hall,&nbsp;Donna Hazell,&nbsp;Walter Jehne,&nbsp;Leah Moore,&nbsp;Gary Nairn","doi":"10.1111/emr.12549","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12549","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Mulloon Rehydration Initiative is a case study highlighting the challenges of integrating research into a catchment scale land-repair project involving multiple landowners and partners. Starting with an innovative project in 2006 to install ‘leaky weirs’ on a single property, the project has now expanded to include stream rehabilitation works on 16 properties and aims to cover an area of 23,000 ha of the Mulloon Creek, NSW and its main tributaries. Here, we describe the establishment phase of the project and the design of its monitoring framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 1","pages":"25-42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12549","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73705471","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":"Empowering young Aboriginal women to care for Country: Case study of the Ngukurr Yangbala rangers, remote northern Australia","authors":"Cherry Wulumirr Daniels,&nbsp;Ngukurr Yangbala rangers,&nbsp;Shaina Russell,&nbsp;Emilie J. Ens","doi":"10.1111/emr.12538","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emr.12538","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globally, the role of women in conservation is gaining attention with increasing initiatives to support gender equity in environmental management and decision-making. In Australia, the role of Aboriginal women in natural and cultural resource management employed as rangers is also gaining recognition; however, female employment in this field remains underrepresented. This paper reflects on a cross-cultural partnership aimed at empowering young Aboriginal women in natural and cultural resource management, locally known as caring for Country, in Arnhem Land, a remote Aboriginal owned region of northern Australia. The project was led by local Ngukurr community <i>Ngandi</i> Elder and lead author, Mrs Daniels, and Macquarie University researchers who co-designed and co-delivered activities according to five project aims: (i) Community involvement; (ii) Biocultural research / learning on Country; (iii) Leadership and confidence building; (iv) Knowledge maintenance; and (v) Capacity building. Over three years of the project, over 60 youth participated in a range of on-Country and cultural learning, leadership and capacity building activities including cross-cultural biodiversity surveys, wetland monitoring, traditional language and knowledge recording and culture camps. Participant feedback and a biocultural learning assessment task noted growth in confidence, biocultural knowledge and desire for continuation of youth empowerment programs in conservation. To facilitate gender equity in Aboriginal natural and cultural resource management, structural and sustained support of women’s empowerment and leadership, driven by local women with support of local communities, is required.</p>","PeriodicalId":54325,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Management & Restoration","volume":"23 S1","pages":"53-63"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emr.12538","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85053636","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}