Revegetation Monitoring

Landcare, Coastcare and other environmental volunteer groups/networks and individuals that have or are undertaking revegetation activities in 2019 are invited to participate in a project to monitor the survival rate of these revegetation plantings.

This revegetation monitoring work will contribute to the ‘Monitoring Revegetation Activities – Adaptive Learning Project’ that is being undertaken by La Trobe University and the Arthur Rylah Institute, Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning (DELWP). Sacha Jellinek (Greening Australia), who is managing the project, can be contacted via sjellinek@greeningaustralia.org.au if you would like more information or want to be involved.
 
The project aims to:

• assess the outcomes of revegetation, in terms of the survival of planted trees, shrubs and understory plants;
• determine the factors that affect variation in survival among different species, and different regions;
• develop a monitoring protocol that community groups can use to collect information in a standard way to monitor planting outcomes.

 
Monitoring revegetation sites will require the use of a simple monitoring protocol - please see the attached: (click images to open full-size documents)

• ‘Monitoring Revegetation Activities’ data sheet with details about how to do the monitoring,   
• ‘Monitoring the outcomes of revegetation’ fact sheet, including results from revegetation monitoring in 2018.

 
Please note that Sacha is open to providing training to group members in monitoring methods if Landcare or Coastcare Facilitators are able to organise participants for the training.

​- John Robinson, DELWP

Please contact Lisa at lisa.wangman@basscoastlandcare.org.au if you would be interested in participating in a training day to group members on monitoring methods.