The Resilient Landscapes Hub is delivering the science to improve the management of Australia’s terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
Our science helps to make these ecosystems more resilient to extreme events – including bushfires, droughts and floods – and pervasive pressures, such as invasive species.
The Resilient Landscapes Hub’s research supports the resilience of our natural landscapes and biodiversity. Resilience refers to the rate at which landscapes recover from environmental stressors and disturbances. Resilient landscapes support Australia’s rich biodiversity and agricultural and tourism economies, and shape the Australian identity. Indigenous peoples’ cultural practices have sustainably managed these landscapes for millennia. However, our landscapes face increasingly complex environmental challenges that threaten to undermine their condition and capacity to recover from extreme events.
Maintaining resilience will not be enough to meet new challenges or adapt to a changing climate. To protect Australia’s landscapes and biodiversity – and the services they provide – we must find new ways to restore and enhance resilience. The Hub is working collaboratively with the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and a range of other research users to co-design and undertake research that provides practical solutions to critical problems.
December 2024 | Open Access
Fishy Business—Assessing the Efficacy of Active and Passive eDNA to Describe the Fish Assemblage of a River in Southwestern Western Australia to Support Effective Monitoring
December 2024 | Open Access
Defining depth requirements to conserve fish assemblages from water take in an intermittent river
November 2024 | Open Access
Grazing impacts on experimentally restored aquatic macrophytes as critical habitat for the threatened Australian lungfish
November 2024
Wildlife in mining landscapes: a case study of the endangered northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)
November 2024 | Open Access
Conservation in agricultural landscapes: Impact of privately managed interventions on habitat condition and woody cover
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