An approach to defining and achieving restoration targets for a threatened plant community.

Autor: Elliott CP; Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Western Australia, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia., Commander LE; Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Western Australia, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia., Merino-Martín L; Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Western Australia, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia., Golos PJ; Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Western Australia, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia., Stevens J; Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Western Australia, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia., Miller BP; Kings Park Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Kings Park, Western Australia, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America [Ecol Appl] 2022 Sep; Vol. 32 (6), pp. e2613. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 11.
DOI: 10.1002/eap.2613
Abstrakt: Connecting scientific research and government policy is essential for achieving objectives in sustaining biodiversity in an economic context. Our approach to connecting theoretical ecology, applied ecology, and policy was devised using principles of restoration ecology and the requisite methodology to restore biodiverse ecosystems. Using a threatened ecological community (TEC) with >120 plant species, we posit our approach as a guide for interpreting and achieving regulatory compliance (i.e., government conditions) enacted to manage or offset environmental impacts of development. We inform the scientific approach necessary to delivering outcomes appropriate to policy intent and biodiverse restoration through theoretical and applied research into the ecological restoration of the highly endemic flora of banded ironstone formations of the Mid West of Western Australia. Our approach (1) defines scale-appropriate restoration targets that meet regulatory compliance (e.g., Government of Western Australia Ministerial Conditions); (2) determines the optimal method to return individual plant species to the restoration landscape; (3) develops a conceptual model for our system, based on existing restoration frameworks, to optimize and facilitate the pathway to the restoration of a vegetation community (e.g., TEC) using diverse research approaches; and (4) develops an assessment protocol to compare restoration achievements against the expected regulatory outcomes using our experimental restoration trials as a test example. Our approach systematically addressed the complex challenges in setting and achieving restoration targets for an entire vegetation community, a first for a semiarid environment. We interpret our approach as an industry application relevant to policy- or regulator-mediated mine restoration programs that seek to return biodiverse species assemblages at landscape scales.
(© 2022 The Authors. Ecological Applications published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of The Ecological Society of America.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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