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dc.contributor.authorCatterall, Carla P
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-07T01:43:47Z
dc.date.available2019-06-07T01:43:47Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1442-7001
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/emr.12306
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/381716
dc.description.abstractEfforts to restore terrestrial woody ecosystems to former agricultural land are typically based on plant‐focused actions, often neglecting fauna. However, the processes that maintain or restore the health and integrity of these ecosystems involve many animal–plant interactions. Here, I synthesise information about these relationships and the implications for revegetation practice. Fauna have often been viewed as passengers, responding passively to plant‐focused revegetation. This view involves two surrogacy assumptions: first, that vegetation attributes can indicate habitat sufficiency for fauna; second, that animals will be capable of dispersing to the restored habitat and of establishing populations there. Habitat sufficiency depends on how resources such as food and nest sites can be indicated by vegetation attributes and how they interact with an animal's species‐specific requirements. Dispersal and establishment depend on proximity to source populations in habitat elsewhere, the type of intervening habitat and the intrinsic mobility of different species. Evidence about the effects of age, revegetation type and spatial context in relation to animal communities indicates that it can often be invalid to assume vegetation surrogacy. Fauna can also drive the developmental trajectories of floristic diversity and composition during revegetation, because animal–plant interactions frequently mediate life‐history transitions that determine seedling recruitment. Frugivore‐mediated seed dispersal is the best studied, but animals also directly influence early‐stage tree recruitment, especially through their roles in seed predation, seedling herbivory and indirectly through top‐down cascades that include large carnivores. These processes have been insufficiently recognised or studied, although some recent work highlights their significance. Intervening to alter abundances of functionally important animals could be useful in accelerating the redevelopment of woody vegetation. Further research is needed to clarify animals’ roles as both passengers and drivers during revegetation, especially manipulative experiments and innovative restoration trials, in which animals and plants are considered together from the outset.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom54
dc.relation.ispartofpageto62
dc.relation.ispartofissueS1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEcological Management and Restoration
dc.relation.ispartofvolume19
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode419999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3103
dc.titleFauna as passengers and drivers in vegetation restoration: A synthesis of processes and evidence
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, School of Environment and Science
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCatterall, Carla P.


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