Category Archives: Restoration

Super Seeds

Posted on 02/03/2012 by

If you could choose a Super Power what would you choose? Incredible speed, rubber arms, hulking strength or maybe X-ray vision? If I had the chance, I’d want to produce seeds. And not just any seeds. I’d want seeds that … Continue reading →

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Restoring Woodland Understories #4

Posted on 08/11/2011 by

For the past four years, Ian Cole, Suzanne Prober and I have been busy running an experiment to work out how to restore native plants and control weeds in degraded woodlands. I’ve posted a number of blogs on this project … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecology, Fire, Grassland, Research, Restoration, Restoring woodland understoreys project, Sugar, Themeda, Woodland | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Woodlands on TV!

Posted on 08/07/2011 by

It was both an education and a blast to spend two days filming a 5 minute segment on our research for the ABC’s TV science show Catalyst late last year. The show was aired this week. If you’re interested, you … Continue reading →

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Self-sustaining native grasslands?

Posted on 19/06/2011 by

Here’s a link to a great blog site by Chris Helzer on managing prairies for biodiversity in the US. The blog has many parallels to managing endangered temperate native grasslands in Australia. The Myth of Self-Sustaining Prairies Here’s a question I … Continue reading →

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Grassland vantage-points # 1: looking back

Posted on 10/06/2011 by

If you never change your mind, why have one? ~ Edward de Bono Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof ~ John … Continue reading →

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Bush encroachment: a global view

Posted on 28/05/2011 by

Encroachment, thickening, desertification, densification, woody weed invasion. There’s no shortage of names for the process. But until lately there’s been a shortage of views on how dense regeneration by woody plants affects the world’s ecosystems. The dominant view can be … Continue reading →

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Growing biolinks for climate change

Posted on 09/04/2011 by

Climate change presents huge challenges for nature conservation. One important way to save species as climate change worsens is to maximize linkages or ‘connectivity’ between natural ecosystems. Initiatives such as Gondwana Link, the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative (or Alps to … Continue reading →

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Precious regeneration or woody weeds?

Posted on 11/03/2011 by

Native trees and shrubs have regenerated across a number of traditional farming areas near where we live. Is this ‘good’ or ‘bad’? Can passive regeneration deliver useful outcomes for biodiversity?

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