Is fencing enough? The short‐term effects of stock exclusion in remnant grassy woodlands in southern NSW

By P. Spooner, I. Lunt, W. Robinson. 2002

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. J. Fischer
2. I. Lunt
3. S. Prober
4. David B. Lindenmayer
5. K. Thiele
6. A. Manning
7. E. Allen
8. I. Fazey

In Forestry

1. S. Prober
2. I. Lunt
3. K. Thiele
4. David B. Lindenmayer
5. J. Fischer
6. P. Spooner

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. David B. Lindenmayer
2. I. Lunt
3. S. Prober
4. J. Fischer
5. K. Thiele
6. I. Fazey
7. P. Spooner
8. A. Manning

Citations in the corpus

• Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation: a synthesis (2007, background): “Factors related to habitat degradation vary widely between species, and may include pressure from grazing (Spooner et al. , 2002), logging (Recher & Serventy, 1991), or changed thermal regimes (Jäggi & Baur, 1999).”
• Using historical ecology to understand patterns of biodiversity in fragmented agricultural landscapes (2005, background): “In many remnant ecosystems, certain ecological thresholds have been passed which may be irreversible without further human intervention (Yates et al., 2000; Pettit & Froend, 2001; Allcock, 2002; Spooner et al., 2002).”
• Restoring ecological function in temperate grassy woodlands: manipulating soil nutrients, exotic annuals and native perennial grasses through carbon supplements and spring burns (2005, background): “However, in Australian grassy woodlands exotic annuals often persist in the longer term, even after exogenous disturbances such as livestock grazing have ceased (Prober, Thiele & Lunt 2002; Spooner, Lunt & Robinson 2002 ).”
• Identifying ecological barriers to restoration in temperate grassy woodlands: soil changes associated with different degradation states (2002, background): “While tree planting can potentially re-establish the dominant trees across the landscape, restoration of the understorey is proving difficult to achieve, often with only limited improvements occurring after removal of livestock grazing (Windsor 1998; Allcock et al. 1999; Spooner et al. 2002).”
• Scattered trees are keystone structures – Implications for conservation (2006, background): “Natural regeneration is a substantially cheaper and ecologically preferable form of restoration than tree planting (McIntyre, 2002; Spooner et al., 2002).”
• Stability of exotic annual grasses following restoration efforts in southern California coastal sage scrub (2008, background): “However, the invasive species generally persist (Stylinski & Allen 1999; Spooner, Lunt & Robinson 2002 ) and few long-term studies have been conducted to determine whether restoration treatments will create a new stable state or whether control of exotic species must become part of the continuous m”
• Making the matrix matter: challenges in Australian grazing landscapes (2005, result): “A similar finding was made by Spooner et al. (2002) in a more extensive investigation of tree regeneration in the south-west slopes of south-eastern Australia.”
• Determining reference conditions for management and restoration of temperate grassy woodlands: relationships among trees, topsoils and understorey flora in little-grazed remnants (2002, background): “Complete restoration of grassy woodlands is rarely achieved by simply fencing remnants to exclude livestock or by hand-planting trees and shrubs (Yates and Hobbs 1997; Spooner et al. 2002), but more sophisticated techniques of restoration are not yet well established.”