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dc.contributor.authorShoo, Luke P
dc.contributor.authorCatterall, Carla P
dc.contributor.authorBeyer, Hawthorne L
dc.contributor.authorCockbain, Paul
dc.contributor.authorDuncan, Michael
dc.contributor.authorRobson, Tim
dc.contributor.authorRoche, Darren
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Howard
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Zoe
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Kerrie
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-06T01:30:47Z
dc.date.available2021-10-06T01:30:47Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn1051-0761
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/eap.2448
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/408606
dc.description.abstractA challenge for natural area managers is to ensure that public expenditure on land restoration is cost-effective, efficient and transparent but this is difficult to achieve in practice, especially when there are many possible projects across multiple years. Here we develop a 'roadmap' for investment in land restoration. It explicitly considers space, time and their interaction, in relation to ecological outcomes and restoration costs (and their variation in time and space). Using integer linear programming optimization in a benefit-cost accounting framework, the roadmap incorporates: transitions between different stages of ecological recovery in a spatial mosaic of multiple ecosystem types; cost schedules associated with managing those transitions over time; time-lags between beginning management and achieving outcomes; variations to constraints and goals associated with various factors including site accessibility, specific conservation priorities (such as threatened species or ecosystems); and background environmental trends. This approach enables land managers to: (1) forecast landscape-scale outcomes of management strategies over long timeframes; (2) address the question of how long it will take and how much it will cost to achieve specific outcomes; and (3) explore potential trade-offs in outcomes among alternative management strategies. We illustrate its application using a case study of forest restoration in Australia by a local government authority across a public conservation estate comprising 765 land units of varying size, totaling about 13,000 hectares, across five different floristic vegetation types, with an annual budget of about AU$5M, projected over a 50-year timeframe. These simulations revealed a trade-off between management strategies that seek to increase either the total cover of native forest or the amount of high quality forest: quality-based strategies were favored in scenarios where shorter term (20-30 years) timeframes were chosen at the outset, but cover-based strategies were favored if longer time horizons were initially targeted. Projected outcomes were also strongly influenced by assumed background rates of vegetation decline or recovery. Many of the issues in this restoration roadmap are generalizable (even though specific outcomes and trade-offs are likely to vary among case studies), and the approach is both scalable and transferable to other regions and ecosystems.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrome02448
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEcological Applications
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAgricultural, veterinary and food sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3103
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode30
dc.subject.keywordsassisted regeneration
dc.subject.keywordsdecision-making
dc.subject.keywordsecological restoration
dc.subject.keywordskoala
dc.subject.keywordspreferences
dc.titleSmart allocation of restoration funds over space and time
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationShoo, LP; Catterall, CP; Beyer, HL; Cockbain, P; Duncan, M; Robson, T; Roche, D; Taylor, H; White, Z; Wilson, K, Smart allocation of restoration funds over space and time, Ecological Applications, 2021, pp. e02448
dc.date.updated2021-10-06T01:20:26Z
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gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advanced online version.
gro.rights.copyright© 2021 by the Ecological Society of America. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Smart allocation of restoration funds over space and time, Ecological Applications, 2021, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2448. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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