Indicators of ecosystem health in Western Australian recovery catchments

西澳大利亚恢复集水区生态系统健康指标。在澳大利亚，旱地盐度和农村社区减少是重要的和相互关联的问题。应审查为解决盐度问题而提出的任何生态系统恢复行动是否有可能帮助农村社区，而不是加剧他们的问题。生态系统健康和参与性研究的框架理论包含了这些问题。一名博士生将被安置在两个恢复集水区中的每一个，使用适合这些方法的方法来制定指标，以检测生态系统和社区福祉的恢复或恶化趋势。这将允许对恢复行动进行适应性改变，并分析因果关系。

Indicators of ecosystem health in Western Australian recovery catchments. Dryland salinity and rural community decline in Australia are important and inter-related issues. Any ecosystem recovery actions proposed to address salinity should be examined for their potential to assist rural communities, rather than exacerbate their problems. The framework theories of ecosystem health and participatory research embrace these issues. A PhD student placed in each of two recovery catchments will use methodologies adapted for these approaches to develop indicators for the detection of trends in recovery or deterioration of ecosystem and community well-being. This will allow for adaptive changes to recovery actions, and for an analysis of causal relationships.