Webinar: 25 September 2024, 1pm AEST
South Coast Natural Resource Management, Media Release, 30 August 2024
How does planting native tree species impact on farm-level biodiversity? With funding from MLA, AWI and several other partners, the “Sustainable Pathways to CN30” project team are examining this question via co-development of farm systems interventions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions while improving productivity, profitability and biodiversity. The research spans production systems and agroecological regions across Australia.
One intervention being examined is planting an area of each farm to native vegetation. Spatially-explicit and temporal dynamic models have been employed to model changes in biodiversity indicators for 14 sheep and cattle farms around Australia.
In this webinar we will explore how such tree planting impacted on short and long-term biodiversity indicators, such as threatened species habitat, benefit for species persistence and ecosystem condition.
The webinar will also include discussion of how other climatic, environmental and agricultural information could be usefully monitored in farm natural capital accounts via a digital dashboard.
Register at: https://utas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HhzHiv3YRPmpPk1Zw1INhA#/registration.
Speakers:
- Matthew Harrison, University of Tasmania
- Karel Mokany, CSIRO
- Tony O’Grady, CSIRO
- Hosted by Suzannah Macbeth, South Coast NRM