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Where and when to revegetate?

Where and when to revegetate?. scheduling revegetation for biodiversity. Jim Thomson, Peter Vesk, Atte Moilanen, Ralph Mac Nally, Andrew Bennett. Where and when to revegetate?. Limited resources space, time and money Multiple objectives Biodiversity

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Where and when to revegetate?

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  1. Where and when to revegetate? scheduling revegetation for biodiversity Jim Thomson, Peter Vesk, Atte Moilanen, Ralph Mac Nally, Andrew Bennett

  2. Where and when to revegetate? • Limited resources • space, time and money • Multiple objectives • Biodiversity • Multiple taxa (e.g. vegetation types, birds, mammals, etc) • Water • Surface & groundwater • Carbon

  3. Pre-European Vegetation 1750 Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC)

  4. Remnant Vegetation Current Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC)

  5. Woodland Birds Mac Nally et al. 2009. Diversity & Distributions

  6. SWIFT PARROT Local habitat (H) soil climate topography

  7. SWIFT PARROT Local habitat (H) soil climate topography

  8. SWIFT PARROT Local habitat (H) soil climate topography

  9. SWIFT PARROT H80 years

  10. SWIFT PARROT H140 years

  11. SWIFT PARROT Local habitat (H) soil climate topography

  12. 62 Woodland bird species Local habitat (H) soil climate topography

  13. Prioritization • Multiple habitat maps for each bird species • 5 x 62 bird maps (20, 40, 60, 80, 140 years) • species-specific landscape context functions (BQP) • 70 EVC maps (1750 extents) • Cost layer (value agricultural output)

  14. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  15. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  16. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  17. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  18. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  19. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  20. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  21. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  22. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  23. 467 000 grid cells 100 cells / iteration

  24. SWIFT PARROT 100 years

  25. SWIFT PARROT 100 years

  26. BIRDS only

  27. EVC + costs

  28. BIRDS + EVC + costs

  29. Birds only Birds + EVC + costs EVC + costs

  30. Free birds? EVC + Birds EVC

  31. increase in EVCs EVC13 EVC11 EVC12 EVC22 EVC21 EVC23 EVC133 EVC32 EVC31 prop veg prop veg prop veg EVC EVC + Birds

  32. “Restoration Zonation” • large-scale (fine-resolution), long-term revegetation planning • Multiple taxa, many species • Local habitat and connectivity requirements • costs / constraints • other objectives…

  33. Extensions • spatially-dependent growth rates • climate change (temporally-dependent H) • additional objectives (taxa, carbon, water) • more realistic costs • reveg methods (spatially-dependent)

  34. thanks.. • Greg Horrocks (Monash) • Jim Radford (Deakin / Bush Heritage Australia) • Department of Primary Industry • Department of Sustainability and Environment • Catchment Management Authorities: • North-east, North-central, Goulburn-Broken, Mallee www.biolsci.monash.edu.au/research/acb/ www.helsinki.fi/bioscience/consplan/

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