A conceptual model of land use effects on the structure and function of herbaceous vegetation

S McIntyre, S Lavorel - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2007 - Elsevier
We apply an ecological perspective to the understanding of land use change and its
implications for vegetation dynamics in the agro-pastoral zone of eastern temperate …

A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food

DM Watson - Emu-Austral Ornithology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The decline of woodland birds in southern Australia has motivated considerable research,
identifying which species, habitats and regions are most affected, but the mechanisms …

Scattered trees are keystone structures–implications for conservation

AD Manning, J Fischer, DB Lindenmayer - Biological conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
Scattered trees are prominent features in many landscapes worldwide, including natural
landscapes, cultural landscapes, and recently modified landscapes. The ecological …

Restoring ecological function in temperate grassy woodlands: manipulating soil nutrients, exotic annuals and native perennial grasses through carbon supplements …

SM Prober, KR Thiele, ID Lunt… - Journal of Applied …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Ecological invasions are often associated with persistent changes to underlying
ecological processes. Restoration of invaded communities is dependent on manipulation of …

Identifying ecological barriers to restoration in temperate grassy woodlands: soil changes associated with different degradation states

SM Prober, KR Thiele, ID Lunt - Australian Journal of Botany, 2002 - CSIRO Publishing
Temperate grassy woodlands were once the dominant vegetation across many agricultural
regions of south-eastern Australia, but most of these are now highly degraded and …

Revegetation rewilds the soil bacterial microbiome of an old field

NJC Gellie, JG Mills, MF Breed, AJ Lowe - Molecular Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration is a globally important and well‐financed management intervention
used to combat biodiversity declines and land degradation. Most restoration aims to …

The abundance of microbial functional genes in grassy woodlands is influenced more by soil nutrient enrichment than by recent weed invasion or livestock exclusion

EA Lindsay, MJ Colloff, NL Gibb… - Applied and …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT A diverse soil microbial community is involved in nitrogen cycling, and these
microbes can be affected by land management practices and weed invasion. We surveyed …

Bringing forward the benefits of coarse woody debris in ecosystem recovery under different levels of grazing and vegetation density

AD Manning, RB Cunningham, DB Lindenmayer - Biological Conservation, 2013 - Elsevier
Restoration projects often do not effectively restore some key biological resources that take
time, often centuries, to accumulate. Such resources are often characteristic of …

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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Soil phosphorus and tree cover modify the effects of livestock grazing on plant species richness in Australian grassy woodland

J Dorrough, C Moxham, V Turner, G Sutter - Biological Conservation, 2006 - Elsevier
The effects of grazing on the richness of understorey plant communities are predicted to vary
along gradients of resources and tree cover. In temperate Australia livestock management …