Testing the potential of integrated vegetation bands to increase water retention, buffer climate extremes, sequester carbon and enhance production

该项目将把一系列复杂的功能整合到一个景观恢复设计中，这将有利于生产和保护目标。这些功能包括：利用本地植被改善地表径流的利用，以减缓流速和增加入渗；通过减少侵蚀来改善土壤和集水条件；降低使景观干燥并侵蚀宝贵表土的风速；为生物多样性提供走廊系统；以及将碳封存在木本植物生物量中。IVB的配置捕捉到了植物有益的结构和功能属性，同时最大限度地减少了竞争相互作用。这将提高澳大利亚农业景观在不断变化的气候中的弹性和生产力。

The project will integrate a complex set of functions into one landscape restoration design which will benefit production and conservation objectives. These functions are improved use of surface runoff using native vegetation to reduce velocities and increase infiltration, improved soil and catchment condition through decreased erosion, lowering wind speeds which desiccate landscape and erode valuable topsoil, providing a system of corridors for biodiversity, and sequestering carbon in woody biomass. IVB’s configuration captures the beneficial structural and functional attributes of vegetation while minimising competitive interactions. This will increase the resilience and productivity of Australian farming landscapes in a changing climate.