Catchment restoration: generating prescriptions for evidence-based best practice in the future, from experience of the past [ 2009-07-01 - 2012-06-30 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Prof Martin Westbrooke (Chief Investigator) ,  Prof Peter Gell (Chief Investigator) ,  Singarayer Florentine (Chief Investigator)

Brief description Catchment restoration: generating prescriptions for evidence-based best practice in the future, from experience of the past. Catchment management programs, supported by substantial government finances, have been leading landscape rehabilitation measures across Australia for more than a decade. Few, if any, projects assessed the outcomes of the measures in terms of action success, plant survivability, landscape stabilisation and water resource benefit. This project will audit the proposed and actual rehabilitation measures undertaken in five catchments and assess the modern condition of plantations, catchments and waterways. Lessons from this audit will generate prescriptions that will be integrated into a web decision support system optimising the outcomes from future catchment management in terms of biodiversity, landscape stability and stream condition.

Funding Amount $116,212

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