BIOL3007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Koala, Depauperate Ecosystem, Seed Dispersal
29 Nov 2018
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Tools whether to determine if a restoration has worked: Need reference (an area that is similar to the desired state for the area to be restored) and control sites (an area similar to the damaged area that is not being restored). Look at potential changes without tracking changes over time. Functional measures: ecological processes pollination, decomposition, primary production. A lot of ecologists suggest that if you build the environment, other things will come. If they don"t then it"s a failure of restoration. Design: need to have appropriate reference and control sites, make sure they are spatial independent, understand temporal dynamics (biology which unpins how long it needs to be monitored), look at responses of particular groups. Look at responses from eucalypts and koalas: need to have realistic benchmarks for the changing world. Have so little of it left, threatened everything that calls it a home group of plants and animals are limited to this area.
