Using prioritisation tools to strategically restore vegetation communities in fragmented agricultural landscapes

Jellinek, Sacha

doi:10.1111/emr.12224

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“…Species-rich Nardus grasslands (6230 Natura 2000 code) are currently among the most threatened habitats in Poland and Europe (EIONET) and has been considered as a priority habitat in Natura 2000 network (European Commission). The preservation of such high natural value communities requires their mowing or grazing, which is not possible without subsidies under agrienvironmental programs (Jellinek, 2016). 2.…”

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The Influence of Past Land-Use and Environmental Factors on Grassland Species Diversity

Zarzycki¹

2017

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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Zarzycki -Bedla: The influence of past land-use and environmental factors on grassland species diversity -267 - Abstract. Mountain grasslands are among the most species-rich plant communities in Europe. This is due to the large variability of abiotic conditions and ways of management. However, a significant change in the rural economy has taken place in recent decades. Some grasslands have become forested, while others have been overgrown as a result of succession. Fodder for domestic animals is produced on grasslands created on former arable land. The aim of this study was to estimate the effect of topographic factors (altitude, slope, exposure) and land use (grassland, arable land) in the mid-nineteenth century and the 1930s on the present biodiversity of mountain grasslands. The study was carried out in the basin of the Łomniczanka and Wierchomlanka Rivers in the Beskid Sądecki (Polish Carpathians). A total of 73 phytosociological relevés in an altitude gradient ranging from 660 to 1,060 m a.s.l were made. Past land use was determined on the basis of archival cadastral and topographic maps. The altitude above sea level was the main factor influencing the botanical composition of vegetation. No difference was observed in species composition depending on past land use. The results show the crucial role of altitude in determining the species composition of mountain meadows.

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The Influence of Past Land-Use and Environmental Factors on Grassland Species Diversity

Zarzycki¹

2017

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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“…Increasingly, systematic conservation planning approaches have been applied in the field of restoration, including the identification of high-priority areas to restore (e.g. Tambosi et al 2014;Yoshioka et al 2014;Jellinek 2017). Instead of locating areas to restore, we used the concept of complementarity to consider alternative objectives that choose from old growth, regrowth, and planted woodland patches in agricultural land to find the best set of patches that maintain threatened woodland bird occurrence over time.…”

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Old growth, regrowth, and planted woodland provide complementary habitat for threatened woodland birds on farms

Ikin

Tulloch

Ansell

et al. 2018

Biological Conservation

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A central challenge for threatened species conservation in agricultural landscapes is to understand the relative contributions of old growth, regrowth, and planted woodland to species persistence. We offer a new perspective into solving this problem by using a systematic conservation planning approach to integrate spatial biodiversity and economic information with patch complementarity. We applied this to an eight-year study of woodland birds vulnerable to extinction across an extensive agricultural region of Australia. We used regression and ordination analyses to show that species were more likely to occur in regrowth and old growth woodland patches compared with plantings. We then set objectives of finding sets of complementary patches for supporting species across the landscape, and explored biodiversity trade-offs resulting from production-or cost-focused objectives. We found that species persistence could be achieved only through sets of patches containing all patch types (old growth, regrowth, plantings). Scenarios that selected sets of patches irrespective of patch type maximized species occurrence over time for the lowest combined area and establishment costs. Patch sets had a higher proportion of plantings for the objective of minimizing area, but a more equal proportion of patch types for the objective of minimizing cost. Our findings demonstrate what the relative composition of old growth, regrowth, and plantings should be when considering vegetation management interventions for threatened species conservation. Government policy and associated funding aimed at improving biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes needs to promote both regrowth woodland and revegetation planting strategies in addition to old growth woodland protection.

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“…Of the 16 plant communities recognised, six were considered priorities for habitat restoration and revegetation (Table 3.3.2). These communities were identified as priorities because they had been heavily cleared since European settlement and were demonstrated to provide important habitat for selected bird species (Jellinek 2017).…”

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Natural History of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth region (Yarluwar-Ruwe). Royal Society of South Australia

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Oliver

Shiel

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The Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Wetland was designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention in 1985. The wetland is also one of Australia's most important and unique wetland systems and supports significant ecological, cultural, recreational, heritage and economic values. It is the only estuary within the Murray-Darling Basin and is a designated icon site under The Living Murray initiative. The site supports a vast array of native flora and fauna, including internationally and nationally significant species and communities.From late 1996 to mid-2010 much of southern Australia, including the Coorong and Lakes region, experienced a prolonged period of dry conditions -the Millennium Drought. This had a devastating impact on the ecology of the Coorong and Lakes and on the wellbeing of our local communities, including the Ngarrindjeri people.While we are still seeing long-lasting ill effects, particularly within the southern lagoon of the Coorong, the drought brought the plight of the River Murray to the national agenda and helped to highlight the importance of end-of-system flows and water for the environment. The adoption of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, and corresponding recovery and delivery of water for the environment, have resulted in improvements to the ecology of the Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert. While many improvements are evident, some aspects of the ecology have experienced sustained change, most notably submergent vegetation communities in the Coorong and some waterbirds, particularly migratory shorebirds, which have not yet recovered to pre-drought levels. Providing the leadership that is required to protect, sustain and revitalise the Coorong is a personal quest which I am determined to advance during my time as South Australia's Minister for Environment and Water.I would like to acknowledge the dedication of South Australia's scientific community, the members of whom are tireless advocates for this wetland. The long-term data that have been collected by these people and groups have been instrumental in our negotiations to secure water for the environment and in delivering on-ground works to protect the Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert. The South Australian Government is committed to using the best scientific, cultural and local knowledge to manage this important wetland.I commend the Royal Society of South Australia for its work to collate decades of monitoring and research data into this important publication on South Australia's most iconic estuary.

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Using prioritisation tools to strategically restore vegetation communities in fragmented agricultural landscapes

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

The Influence of Past Land-Use and Environmental Factors on Grassland Species Diversity

The Influence of Past Land-Use and Environmental Factors on Grassland Species Diversity

Old growth, regrowth, and planted woodland provide complementary habitat for threatened woodland birds on farms

Natural History of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth region (Yarluwar-Ruwe). Royal Society of South Australia

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