Veg Futures 08 proceedings
Veg Futures 08, Australia's national vegetation conference convened by Greening Australia and Land & Water Australia, took place in Toowoomba in October 2008. The conference structured a four day program around five 'big' questions confronting the management of native vegetation in this country. Papers from Veg Futures 08 are listed below, with more to be added as they are received.
Download the Veg Futures 08 Abstracts and Speaker Biographies booklet for an overview of papers presented at the conference.
*Please note that all papers are in pdf format (up to 2MB each).
Keynotes
The Joint Venture Agroforesrty Program (JVAP) contribution: redefining the boundaries - Alex Campbel
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More than an Aluminium producer - Tony Hiscock, Manager Alcoa Farmlands
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Workshops
Sustainable Investments through Capacity Building. Community Skills, Knowledge and Engagement -
building capacity to achieve Caring for our Country outcomes - Peter Wilcock, Australian Government Caring for our Country Facilitator
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Revegetation in a peri-urban landscape: a landholder's perspective - Joan Dillon
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Restoring landscapes with confidence: evaluating the science, the methods and their on-ground application - Jann Williams, NRM Insights
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How salinity alters the response of wetland plants to water regime - Jacqueline Salter, School of Biological Sciences and Australian Centre for Biodiversity, Monash University
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Can the carbon market help regional biodiversty? - Norrie Sanders, Natural Solutions
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Climate change and weed spread - John Scott, CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and CSIRO Entomology
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Capacity building investments: accounting for the diverse views of stakeholders - Lisa Robbins, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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The Otway Agroforestry Network and the Australian Master TreeGrower Program: Writing our own history on our landscape - with trees - Andrew Stewart and Rowan Reid
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Causes of dieback syndrome of Eucalyptus and other Australian native species - "Mundalla yellows" - B Czerniakowski, R Crnov, I Smith and J Luck
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Retaining trees in a grazing landscape: impacts on ground cover in sheep-grazing agro-ecosystems in southern Queensland - Andy Le Brocque, Kellie Goodhew and Geoff Cockfield
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Vegetation Futures for Tasmania - Dr Karyl Michaels, Dr Michael Lacey, Professor Tony Norton and Professor Jann Williams
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Forums
Ecosystem Dynamics Simulator (EDS): a tool that helps you trial your vegetation management options before you do it - Michael Ngugi, Nature Refuges Branch Environmental Protection Agency Queensland
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Closing
Conference overview - Ted Lefroy, University of Tasmania
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