NERP TE Project 12.2 - Harnessing natural regeneration for cost-effective rainforest restoration, 2011-2014 (GU, UQ)

The project will assist decision-makers to more efficiently restore biodiversity to degraded rainforest landscapes by providing new knowledge about the outcomes of lower-cost natural regeneration (including potential for minimum intervention management) relative to higher-cost active reforestation (replanting) on post-agricultural land. The outcomes of this project will enable planners to assess the costs, risks and benefits of different approaches to reforestation and choose the most appropriate method for any particular ecological and economic context.


This project will:

1. Quantify the rate and pattern of development of vegetation during rainforest regrowth following cessation of agricultural use, and how this compares with the outcomes of publicly-funded restoration by tree-planting.

2. Investigate, trial and promote emerging technologies for the acceleration and redirection of rainforest regrowth, to overcome ecological barriers or thresholds that inhibit rainforest redevelopment.

3. Identify locations and situations where passive restoration (unassisted regrowth) is a preferable alternative to high-cost active restoration (replanting).


This will help government agencies and landholders to better forecast outcomes resulting from passive regeneration over defined time frames. This knowledge will also be useful to private enterprises interested in capitalising on emerging carbon markets.


This work will be done on the Atherton Tablelands in the Wet Tropics.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2011-07-22T00:00:00Z
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Principal investigator Griffith University Carla Catterall c.catterall@griffith.edu.au
Credit
This project was funded by the Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment through the National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub with co-investment from project partners and collaborators.
Status
complete
Point of contact
Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Griffith University Carla Catterall c.catterall@griffith.edu.au
Topic category
  • Environment

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Project extent


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Time period
2011-07-01 2014-12-31T00:00:00Z
Keywords (dataSource)
  • National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub
Keywords (Theme)
  • marine

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Principal investigator
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Publisher Australian Institute of Marine Science eAtlas Data Manager Voice PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
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NERP TE Hub

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DAWE National Environmental Research Program website

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English
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Role Organisation Name Telephone Delivery point City Administrative area Postal code Country Electronic mail address
Point of contact Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) eAtlas Data Manager Voice PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE Townsville Queensland 4810 Australia e-atlas@aims.gov.au
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Name
NERP TE Project 12.2
Metadata linkage
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Date info (Creation)
2015-01-21T16:33:27
Date info (Revision)
2025-02-06T04:18:01.87Z

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ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Passive restoration (natural regrowth).

Spatial extent

Keywords

marine

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