- Title
- Vegetation change in Hattah Kulkyne National Park: A state-and-transition model
- Creator
- Murdoch, Fiona
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37038
- Identifier
- vital:641
- Identifier
- ISSN:0035-9211
- Abstract
- Many arid landscapes worldwide are degraded. Restoration ecology offers a variety of tools to enable managers to restore valued processes to landscapes. One such tool is state-and-transition (S-T) modelling which provides a way to summarise knowledge of vegetation dynamics, tools for restoration and the impact of restoration activities. A theoretical S-T framework was developed and used to organise the history of degradation and restoration in the semi-arid woodlands of Hattah Kulkyne National Park, north-west Victoria. This process highlighted four main opportunities to enhance restoration success including: exploring where, when and why natural recruitment of key species was occurring, utilising the artificial stimulation of root suckers as an alternative tool to enhance the regeneration of desirable species, understanding and developing techniques to enable regenerating or partially restored woodlands to move to the desirable state of a self-perpetuating, restored woodland and a need to monitor and manage the threat posed by emerging weeds.; C1
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Victoria
- Relation
- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria Vol. 118, no. 2 (2006), p. 305-312
- Rights
- Copyright Royal Society of Victoria
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 06 Biological Sciences; Restoration; Semi-arid woodlands; State-and-transition
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