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Open AccessInsect community reassembly in a spatiotemporally heterogenous restoration landscape
Anthropogenic habitat degradation resulting from agricultural, mining, and urban development is a leading cause of global insect declines, but the recovery of insect communities and functional guilds is rarely...
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Open AccessBetter to risk limb than life: some insects use autotomy to escape passive predation by carnivorous plants
Limb autotomy, the voluntary shedding of body parts as a strategy to escape predation or entrapment, is particularly common in insects and other arthropods that are frequently captured by the carnivorous plant...
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Nutrient-acquisition strategy influences seed nutrient concentration and seed-to-seedling transition in ecological restoration in a regional dryland flora
Seed-to-seedling transition is a primary bottleneck in dryland and post-mining ecological restoration. The role of internal seed nutrent characteristics in this critical transition remains poorly understood, d...
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Open AccessRevealing microhabitat requirements of an endangered specialist lizard with LiDAR
A central principle of threatened species management is the requirement for detailed understanding of species habitat requirements. Difficult terrain or cryptic behaviour can, however, make the study of habita...
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Open AccessA novel approach for reliable qualitative and quantitative prey spectra identification of carnivorous plants combining DNA metabarcoding and macro photography
Prey spectra (the number and composition of captured arthropods) represent a crucial aspect of carnivorous plant ecology, yet remain poorly studied. Traditional morphology-based approaches for prey identificat...
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Ecosystem Restoration: A Public Health Intervention
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Nitrogen limitation and calcifuge plant strategies constrain the establishment of native vegetation on magnetite mine tailings
Mine tailings are challenging substrates for ecological restoration, as the establishment of diverse native plant communities can be constrained by a range of edaphic factors. Thus, the ability to restore nati...
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Compromised root development constrains the establishment potential of native plants in unamended alkaline post-mining substrates
Mined materials often require rehabilitation or ecological restoration through revegetation as part of mine closure and relinquishment practices, yet there is a widening gap between the expectations of recover...
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Avoiding tailings dam collapses requires governance, partnership and responsibility
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Appropriate aspirations for effective post-mining restoration and rehabilitation: a response to Kaźmierczak et al.
Confusion surrounding the definition and application of terminology in post-mining ecological repair has resulted in uncertainty for industry, the scientific community and regulators. This lack of clarity may ...
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One giant leap for mankind: can ecopoiesis avert mine tailings disasters?
Mine tailings are among the most ecologically hostile byproducts of mining operations, with production generating alien substrates with significant cascading environmental and human welfare legacies. The rate ...
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Open AccessMicrobial Functional Capacity Is Preserved Within Engineered Soil Formulations Used In Mine Site Restoration
Mining of mineral resources produces substantial volumes of crushed rock based wastes that are characterised by poor physical structure and hydrology, unstable geochemistry and potentially toxic chemical condi...
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Ant biodiversity and its environmental predictors in the North Kimberley region of Australia’s seasonal tropics
Northern Australia supports the world’s largest estate of undeveloped tropical savannas, but previous studies of ant diversity in the region have covered only a fraction of its land area and habitat diversity....
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Biodiversity responses to vegetation structure in a fragmented landscape: ant communities in a peri-urban coastal dune system
Habitat fragmentation often results in significant degradation of the structure and composition of remnant natural vegetation, leading to substantial biodiversity decline. Ants are an ecologically dominant fau...
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Biogenic ethylene promotes seedling emergence from the sediment seed bank in an ephemeral tropical rock pool habitat
Ethylene has been increasingly implicated as a regulatory mechanism in plant germination, growth, and development, and is produced from the sediments of freshwater habitats. In this paper, we analyse the produ...
