The presentations at the plenary and sessions were recorded by University of Queensland, and the video file made available to SERA. Sessions below are in chronological order.

Presentations by speakers that who did not provide permission to record their session are unavailable.

Please note, some presentations are cut short, as they exceeded the 1:30 hours recoding time allocated for each session. Audio may be compromised in some recordings due to lack of microphone access for some speakers and the audience.

27 SEPTEMBER 2018

OPENING PLENARY

Session 1 – https://youtu.be/YPf6HMMxjrU

  • Associate Professor Daniel Laughlin: Are historical reference conditions an ecological fairy tale, or are they more relevant than ever?
  • Linda Bell: Transferring theory into practice – how hard can it be? Lessons from Saving our Species Program.
  • Professor Kerrie Wilson: Better decision making in ecological restoration

Session 2 – https://youtu.be/e6EWr3FtNvM

  • Dr Linda Broadhurst: How genetics can influence long-term restoration outcomes
  • Dr Paul Gibson-Roy: Native seed production ‘farming for restoration supply’: Lessons from local and US sectors

THREATENED SPECIES CONSERVATION – https://youtu.be/2c6xKhS1ocg

  • Germination, cultivation and ex situ conservation of an extremely rare palm endemic to New Caledonia. Pierre Loslier
  • Balancing acts: Staged restoration of endangered species habitat in the Brickpit, Sydney Olympic Park 2006-2018. Jenny O’Meara
  • Maximising ecological restoration outcomes through threatened species management programs. Jen Ford
  • Bungawalbin Catchment endangered emu conservation through habitat enhancement, vertebrate pest control and community engagement. Paul O’Connor
  • How did we go? A genetic analysis of the Gossia gonoclada Recovery Program. Laura Simmons

RESTORATION IN A CHANGING CLIMATE – https://youtu.be/sN88lyL0OYQ

  • Achieving multiple benefits in ecological restoration for biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration. Valerie Hagger
  • Local provenancing in subtropical rainforest restoration: For better or worse? A review of practitioners’ perspectives. Sally L Cooper
  • Integrating climate change and local adaptation to inform species and provenance choice for woodland restoration. Peter Harrison
  • Model for integrated peatland restoration in Indonesia: A study from Utar Serapat. Grahame Applegate
  • Addressing Indonesia’s haze crisis through a multi-sector, interdisciplinary program based on accurate primary data field-research. Laura Graham

SEAGRASS RESTORATION NETWORK – https://youtu.be/UMZyrbdB4JM

  • Introduction: Seagrass Restoration Network: A new SER community building confidence in seagrass restoration. John Statton
  • Understanding the tropical seagrass seed story for improved seagrass restoration. Emma Jackson
  • Recruitment facilitation to rehabilitate lost Amphibolis Antarctica in South Australia. Jason Tanner
  • Tackling a global problem – developing seagrass restoration methods for boat mooring scars. Elizabeth Sinclair
  • Spreading the seeds of change: Optimising community engagement efforts to improve seagrass restoration. Lana Kajlich
  • Developing the steps required for the effective use of seed in seagrass restoration. John Statton

NATIVE SEED FOR RESTORATION, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES – https://youtu.be/8LzuhjsBU7M

  • Introduction: The International Network for Seed Based Restoration. Kingsley Dixon
  • Status of the Australian native seed sector: Results of a nationwide survey. Paul Gibson-Roy
  • Optimisation of seed coating technology to native grasses. Simone Pedrini
  • A Protocol Development Tool for native seed coating. Khiraj Bhalsing
  • Resolving dormancy in difficult-to-germinate Australian Ericaceae. Michael Just

RETURNING ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION – https://youtu.be/sRrWlavgqA4

  • Urban forest restoration has opposing indirect effects on litter decomposition and no effect on denitrification. Kiri Joy Wallace
  • How rapidly do litter decomposition and decomposer invertebrates return during rainforest restoration on disused pastures? Marisa Stone
  • The recovery of functional diversity with restoration. Sophie Hale
  • Direct seeding to restore drooping Sheoak Grassy Woodlands on Dakalanta Wildlife Sanctuary, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. James Walsh
  • Coordinated recovery planning for threatened woodlands. Hannah Fraser

TRAIT-BASED ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING – https://youtu.be/6VnZSNgaV_k

  • Introduction: Theoretical understanding of global patterns plant traits. Angela Moles
  • Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent functional indicators of short-term environmental change in grasslands. Jennifer Firn
  • Plant ecological strategies and restoration: How functional traits shape community assembly, structure and diversity. Robert Kooyman
  • Do leaf traits reflect ecosystem processes useful for tropical reforestation? Jarrah Wills
  • Seed size: Crucial in the dynamics and practice of tropical forest restoration? Carla Catterall
  • Trait-based species assemblages for ecological restoration in a changing world. Daniel Laughlin

SCALING UP RESTORATION – https://youtu.be/LKNuUbcgFeE

  • Scaling up – Is it possible or an ongoing aspiration? Jen Ford
  • Large-scale restoration at small scale costs in Southwest Western Australia. Glen Steven
  • Scaling up reforestation: Lessons learnt from three different reforestation approaches in Myanmar. Thaung Naing Oo
  • Leverage trust-based partnerships to implement stream restoration at scale: A CAREX case study. Catherine Febria
  • Upscaling best practice: A 300 ha dry shrubland restoration within an irrigated farm landscape matrix. Nicholas Dickinson
  • Applying the SERA Standards to large-scale restoration in Gondwana Link (South-Western Australia) – challenges and approaches. Barry Heydenrych

MARINE RESTORATION – https://youtu.be/yuOuR6B_nd8

  • Operation crayweed: Restoration of underwater forests. Alexandra Campbell
  • From little things, big things can grow back again: Pumicestone Shellfish Habitat Restoration Project. Susie Chapman
  • The feasibility and first steps of restoring Australia’s disappearing Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) forests. Cayne Layton
  • Bleaching mitigation and restoration of Micronesian Staghorn Acropora. Laurie Raymundo
  • Habitat restoration or creation – A feasibility assessment for reuse of dredged marine sediment. Kevin Kane
  • A diagnosis of institutional readiness to implement mangrove forest landscape restoration in Indonesia. Benjamin Brown

MINE SITE RESTORATION – https://youtu.be/bkQHku7yV6w

  • Tailings dam rehabilitation – A new perspective. Carmen Castor Establishing self-sustaining ecological mine rehabilitation that achieves recognised ecological communities. Travis Peake
  • Thirty years of ecological restoration of mining-degraded areas in New Caledonia: Synthesis and production of success indicator. Hamid Amir
  • From Remediation to Ecological Engineering: The Paradigm Shift in Concepts and Technology of Tailings Rehabilitation. Longbin Huang
  • Thirty years of ecological restoration of mining-degraded areas in New Caledonia: Comparative analysis and recommendations. Bruno Fogliani
  • Long-term research supports a reduced fertilizer application rate for mine site forest restoration in South West Australia. Andrew Grigg

OFFICIAL CONFERENCE CLOSING – https://youtu.be/u4ZhADCnuAo

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