Setting Geographic Priorities for Integrated Landscape Restoration in a Fragmented Agricultural Region

本研究旨在发展整合式景观恢复的理论与应用于一个破碎化的农业区域--南澳的高山山脉。将在自然环境、经济和社会范围内，为自然生物多样性的利益，确定待恢复生境的类型和地点的明确优先次序。将在地理信息系统内建立启发式和优化模型，并评估其在综合景观恢复中确定优先事项的能力。这些技术将有助于维持许多其他过度清除地区的生态，物理和人类系统。

This research project aims to develop the theory and application of integrated landscape restoration in a fragmented agricultural region - the Mt. Lofty Ranges of South Australia. Spatially explicit priorities will be set for the type and location of habitat to be restored for the benefit of the natural biodiversity within a physical environmental, economic and social context. Heuristic and optimisation models will be created within a Geographic Information System (GIS) and assessed for their ability to set such priorities in integrated landscape restoration. The techniques will help sustain ecological, physical and human systems in many other over-cleared regions.