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Understanding and valuing landscape processes

Understanding and valuing landscape processes

Understanding and valuing landscape processes, including the role and function of biodiversity in the delivery of ecosystem services:

  •   How do landscapes work and how do they generate value?
  •   How can we manage landscapes to maintain and/or improve their capacity to deliver ecosystem services?

Landscape design for maintaining ecosystem services in tropical agricultural landscapes

This project aims to improve understanding of relationships between vegetation pattern and quality of ecosystem services in Australia’s monsoonal tropics.

Mastering vegetation management for both conservation and profit

This project will build on the success of the Australian Master TreeGrower Program by facilitating greater integrated vegetation management.

Biodiversity values and functional ecology of regrowth vegetation in modified landscapes

This project aims to increase ecological knowledge of Queensland’s semi-arid woodlands through quantitative assessments and provide scientific advice for more effective policy, planning and management of these ecosystems and restoration of degraded and fragmented habitat.

Enhancing and utilising landscape heterogeneity to meet multiple ecosystem objectives

This project aims to help pastoralists in northern Australia better manage and utilise the spatially patchy nature of forage and vegetation resources at large scales as a means of enhancing native vegetation condition and improving economic outcomes.

Capturing the pest control services of native vegetation

This project aims to help answer three of the most frequently asked questions by agricultural landholders: "Why should I maintain / create areas of native vegetation, how can it benefit me, and how do I know it will not add to pest problems? The project will build on current knowledge and demonstrate to growers the quantifiable benefit of pest control in cotton / grain systems as it relates to native vegetation remnants.

Fire management in Northern Australia: integrating ecological, economic and social outcomes

This project will undertake a program of applied fire management research which augments substantial existing activity, for the purposes of furthering community (Indigenous and pastoral) involvement with, and deriving social and economic benefits from, developing fire management and associated NRM opportunities in northern Australia.