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AABR National Forum March 2024 – The Rs of Restoration
Yes it’s all about resilience assessment – but accurate prediction requires ongoing trial and error.
Presenter – Tein McDonald, AABR
The National Standards describe how four restoration approaches fit along a continuum of resilience – with spontaneous natural regeneration at the highest resilience end and full reconstruction at the lowest. But the tricky questions arise in the middle zones of the continuum where it is harder to predict where a facilitated regeneration approach may be sufficient alone and where some level of reintroduction may also be needed. Tein draws on recent case studies that tested her assumptions about both regeneration potential and the value of reintroductions.
Dr Tein McDonald led the team that produced the National Standards, a document that brings together lessons from restoration from around the globe. Straddling the two worlds of science and practice, Tein particularly draws on the ecological literature about resilience and disturbance as well as her ongoing experience in on-ground restoration of sclerophyll, rainforest and grassland sites in eastern Australia.
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The National standards for the practice of ecological restoration in Australia