Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0560871
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Successful rehabilitation of species-rich heathlands after mining for heavy minerals. The Eneabba sandplains are located in one of the world's 25 'hotspots' for biodiversity and part of it is mined for heavy minerals. We seek to evaluate the ecology of rehabilitated minesites by comparing their species composition, spatial arrangement, functional attributes and response to experimental fire with that of the surrounding heathlands. This will enable us to gauge the new system's resilience to fire and recommend corrective measures necessary to modify the pathway of restoration of the post-mining ecosystems as required. Because we take spatial relations and disturbance into account our approach is innovative and relevant to restoration ecology generally.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2005
End Date: 12-2008
Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
Funding Amount: $135,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Terrestrial Ecology | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Integrated (ecosystem) assessment and management | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Rehabilitation of degraded mining lands |
