This theme is focused on achieving effective and well-targeted restoration and management of living organisms and biogeochemical cycles within human-occupied landscapes, through:
- providing an improved scientific basis; and
- improving its integration with human practices.
Better management and restoration are essential to environmental sustainability at local to global scales, and are increasingly a concern for policy makers. Examples of projects include:
- biological and biogeochemical outcomes and techniques of revegetation and reforestation,
- the use of restoration to mitigate impacts of linear infrastructure on fauna and flora,
- monitoring restoration success,
- cost-benefit relationships,
- community attitudes and involvement in restoration and management,
- managing human-wildlife interactions,
- integrating ecosystem management with human health,
- managing fire in native vegetation,
- the identification of key factors for population management across a spectrum from threatened species to invasive and pest species, and
- planning for ecological outcomes.