Successful rehabilitation of species-rich heathlands after mining for heavy minerals

Eneabba沙原位于世界上25个生物多样性“热点”之一，其中部分地区被开采重矿物。通过比较修复后的石楠荒原的物种组成、空间布局、功能属性和对实验火的响应，对修复后的石楠荒原进行生态评价。这将使我们能够衡量新系统对火灾的恢复能力，并建议必要的纠正措施，以根据需要修改采矿后生态系统的恢复途径。因为我们考虑了空间关系和干扰，所以我们的方法是创新的，并且与恢复生态学有关。

The Eneabba sandplains are located in one of the world's 25 'hotspots' for biodiversity and part of it is mined for heavy minerals. We seek to evaluate the ecology of rehabilitated minesites by comparing their species composition, spatial arrangement, functional attributes and response to experimental fire with that of the surrounding heathlands. This will enable us to gauge the new system's resilience to fire and recommend corrective measures necessary to modify the pathway of restoration of the post-mining ecosystems as required. Because we take spatial relations and disturbance into account our approach is innovative and relevant to restoration ecology generally.