Reviving revenant remnants: guiding revegetation using metapopulation modelling for improving connectivity in a fragmented landscape

Abstract

Reinstating connectivity is seen as one way to ameliorate biodiversity loss resulting from agricultural activities. Natural resource management agencies require scientific knowledge to better inform revegetation programs for increasing connectivity. Concepts of metapopulation theory and landscape ecology have been combined to produce spatially explicit outputs based on fragmentation-sensitive and poor-dispersing woodland species and which are designed to improve the occurrence and persistence of biodiversity. Selected outputs have been incorporated into the operations of a NRM revegetation program. The results from the research provide alternative management options relevant to variegated and fragmented landscapes. Spatial data, spreadsheets, R scripts.