Forest Landscape Restoration

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2008:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject covers principles and practices of forest restoration from site to landscape scales. A 3-day

field trip demonstrating innovative solutions to forest restoration problems will be the basis for practical work.

At the end of this subject students will have an advanced understanding of:

• properties of degraded versus functioning ecosystems;

• need for forest restoration (Australia and elsewhere);

• goals for forest restoration;

• forest restoration methods;

• properties of landscape matrices;

• indicators of forest function and restoration success at different scales;

• benefits of forest restoration.

One assignment (3000 words, 40%); one oral presentation (20%); one end of semester exam (40%)

Mansourian, S., Vallauri, D., Dudley, N. (2005) Forest restoration in landscapes: beyond planting trees. Springer, London, 437 pg.

Rietbergen-McCracken, J., Maginnis, S., Sarre,A (2007).The Forest Landscape Restoration Handbook. Earthscan, London, 175pp.

Walker, L.R., Walker, J., Hobbs, R.J. (2007) Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession. Springer, New York, 190pp.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.