In this webinar, learn from three speakers working with natural regeneration projects. One speaker from Australia discussing conversion of nonnative pine plantations back to native eucalypt forest, one speaker from South America talking about monitoring and evaluating natural regeneration in tropical rain forest, and a speaker from North America talking about regenerating freshwater wetland sites.

1.  Todd Dudley (from Tasmania, Australia) is President of Tasmania’s North East Bioregional Network and has 40 years experience in on ground ecological restoration, particularly bush regeneration. His talk ‘‘Assessing Ecological Resilience to activate natural regeneration in North East Tasmania’ show how their organization has undertaken a number of successful restoration projects with nil or minimal planting across a range of sites and land uses including roadsides, dunes, forestry and mining areas.

2. Dr André Giles from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil who has worked across the Amazon and Cerrado, combining long-term field monitoring with ecological synthesis to develop simple indicators and reference benchmarks for evaluating the success of natural regeneration and restoration. André’s talk is titled ‘How to Measure Natural Regeneration Success: Indicators and Reference Values for Amazonian Forests’ and it highlights ecological integrity as an operational concept for restoration monitoring, and presents a reference (benchmark) framework for natural regeneration.

3. Sara Sweet, a Stewardship Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy in California, has been managing habitat and researching plant communities at the Cosumnes River Preserve for over 1 been managing habitat and researching plant communities at the Cosumnes River Preserve for over 17 years. Her talk is titled ‘Natural hydrology facilitates natural regeneration on a Mediterranean lowland floodplain’ and shows how natural regeneration has been harnessed at the Cosumnes River Preserve in California (USA) for a couple decades, drawing out many ecological and practical lessons from these experiences.

IMPORTANT NOTE: After each talk, there was a Q&A, with questions typed into Zoom. Most questions were answered during this process so you can hear the questions and answers in the recordings above. But there was not sufficient time to answer all the questions during the recorded presentations or Q&A – so the presenters have provided answers in written form in the following table, which can be read here or downloaded.