Restoration of temperate eucalypt woodland: getting it right

澳大利亚南部的桉树林地已经被大量砍伐用于农业：为了保护生物多样性和恢复它们提供的生态系统服务，大量的努力和费用正在用于这些林地的植被恢复。目前的修复方法纯粹是经验性的，很少有人了解它们为什么有效。该项目将实验性地调查植被恢复实践，以揭示它们利用的生态过程，以及其他可能利用但目前尚未利用的生态过程。将比较不同做法的成本效益。该项目的结果将是桉树林地的植被恢复实践，这是基于证据和成本效益的，而不是经验法则。

Eucalypt woodlands of southern Australia have been heavily cleared for agriculture: much effort and expense is going towards revegetation of these woodlands to conserve biodiversity, and restore ecosystem services they provide. Current restoration methods are purely empirical, with little understanding of why they work. This project will experimentally investigate revegetation practices to uncover ecological processes they utilise, and other ecological processes that potentially can be utilised but are currently not. The cost-effectiveness of different practices will be compared. The outcome of the project will be revegetation practices for eucalypt woodlands that are evidence-based and cost-effective, rather than rule of thumb.