Enhancing biodiversity persistence in intensively used agricultural landscapes: a synthesis of 30 years of research in the Western Australian wheatbelt

SM Prober, FP Smith - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2009 - Elsevier
Meeting the global challenge to conserve biodiversity in intensively used agricultural
landscapes is dependent on understanding and overcoming the limits to persistence of …

A framework to predict the effects of livestock grazing and grazing exclusion on conservation values in natural ecosystems in Australia

ID Lunt, DJ Eldridge, JW Morgan… - Australian Journal of …, 2007 - CSIRO Publishing
Grazing by domestic livestock has greatly degraded many Australian ecosystems and its
legacy will be long-lasting in many areas. Although livestock are usually removed from …

Effects of time-since-fire on the tussock dynamics of a dominant grass (Themeda triandra) in a temperate Australian grassland

JW Morgan, ID Lunt - Biological conservation, 1999 - Elsevier
Changes in tussock attributes and sward structure with time-since-fire were documented for
the dominant tussock grass, Themeda triandra, at the Derrimut Grassland Reserve in …

Using historical ecology to understand patterns of biodiversity in fragmented agricultural landscapes

ID Lunt, PG Spooner - Journal of Biogeography, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To enhance current attempts to understand biodiversity patterns by using an historical
ecology approach to highlight the over‐riding influence of land‐use history in creating past …

Restoring Kangaroo Grass (Themeda triandra) to grassland and woodland understoreys: a review of establishment requirements and restoration exercises in south …

BI Cole, ID Lunt - Ecological Management & Restoration, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Temperate grassy ecosystems are amongst Australia's most endangered ecosystems. Most
remnants are small, fragmented and highly degraded. Practical methods for restoring native …

Seed bank and seed rain in a seasonal semi-deciduous forest in south-eastern Brazil

MT Grombone-Guaratini, RR Rodrigues - Journal of tropical ecology, 2002 - cambridge.org
To examine the influence of seasonality on the abundance and composition of species in
the community, we studied the seed rain and the seed bank in a seasonal, semi-deciduous …

Is fencing enough? The short‐term effects of stock exclusion in remnant grassy woodlands in southern NSW

P Spooner, I Lunt, W Robinson - Ecological Management & …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Fencing remnant native vegetation has become a widespread activity for arresting declines
in biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. However, few data are available on the …

Restoring Australia's temperate grasslands and grassy woodlands: integrating function and diversity

SM Prober, KR Thiele - Ecological Management & Restoration, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
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Plant functional types can predict decade‐scale changes in fire‐prone vegetation

DA Keith, L Holman, S Rodoreda, J Lemmon… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Plant functional types (PFTs) are groups of species sharing traits that govern
their mechanisms of response to environmental perturbations such as recurring fires …

Importance of canopy gaps for recruitment of some forbs in Themeda triandra-dominated grasslands in south-eastern Australia

JW Morgan - Australian Journal of Botany, 1998 - CSIRO Publishing
The effect of grassland gap size on the establishment of five non-clonal perennial forbs,
comprising a range of seed masses, was investigated in two Themeda triandra Forsskal …