Restoration and Management of Grassy Woodland
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 December 2020) | Viewed by 193
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Biodiversity Ecology Climate Change Natural Resource Management Plant Ecology Soil Rivers Biodiversity & Conservation Forest Ecology Botany Vegetation Ecology Trees Seed Germination Seeds Restoration Ecology Macroinvertebrates Seed Dormancy Dormancy
Special Issue Information
Dear colleague,
Cumberland Plain Woodland (CPW) is a critically endangered ecological community located on the coastal plain west of Sydney, Australia. It is a eucalypt grassy woodland or forest found on a comparatively fertile shale-derived soil, and so, it was extensively cleared for agriculture from European settlement onwards. It has suffered the greatest reduction in original extent of all the grassy woodlands in New South Wales and persists now in fragmented remnant patches over its pre-settlement range. The long-term conservation of CPW will require increasing its coverage in the reserve system where possible and evidence-based adaptive management of all remnants whether in public or private tenure. Restoration of the original vegetation onto land with prior agricultural land use will be required where such sites are the only option to improve connectivity across the former distribution. This Special Issue will review the problems faced in conserving fragmented remnant communities and in restoration of Cumberland Plain Woodland. The current state of knowledge on barriers to restoration of CPW, methodologies for restoration, and evidence-based management of remnant and restored communities will be discussed.
Dr. E. Charles Morris
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Grassy woodland
- Remnant vegetation
- Fire
- Nutrient reduction
- Biomass removal
- Grassland restoration
- Fragmentation
- Grassland management
- Scalping
- Native seed addition
- Weed invasion
