THEME 1: Moving house – lessons from the past – who’s done what where and what do we now know? Exploring plant introductions across Australia over the past 30 years.
- PLENARY – Australian plant translocations: a 60,000 year history. Jen Silcock
- Moving plants – revealing the past and informing the future. Margaret Byrne
- Survival outcomes of Cycas megacarpa across two translocation programs. Alicia Wain
- Measuring and managing genetic erosion in plant translocations: lessons from Grevillea scapigera. Siegy Krauss
THEME 2: Moving house – what’s new?
- PLENARY – Plant conservation actions and comparative ecology: But we don’t know enough! Peter Vesk
- Physiological patterns among trees can aid land-management decisions under a changing climate. John Patykowski
- Restore & Renew: Large scale evolutionary, environmental and ecological information in support of restoration practices Maurizio Rossetto
- Is restoration working? An ecological genetic assessment. Melissa Millar
- Maximising adaptive potential in translocated populations of clonal saltmarsh plants. Karen Sommerville
- Plant mating systems and assessing translocation success. David Coates
- Translocation of the threatened rainforest herb, Astelia australiana. Linda Parker
- Breeding system and polyploidy in the conservation management – the case of the woolly wrinklewort Rutidosis lanata. Alexander Schmidt-Lebuhn
- Interrogate then translocate: identifying potentially recipient sites by modelling the environmental niche of the endangered Persoonia hindii. Nathan Emery
- Pollination of the threatened Canberra spider orchid, with a view to translocations. Tobias Hayashi
- Securing Silver Daisy – collaborative action to building resilience in a threatened daisy. Amelia Hurren
- Threatened plant translocations at Sydney’s urban interface – where do we put them? Peter Cuneo
- Population biology with Plantago lanceolata as a model system – a focus on genetics and seed ecology. Stephanie Chen. Student prize recipient
- Myrtle Rust poses unprecedented challenges for plant conservation and recovery. Bob Makinson
- Faster than nature does on its own: a story of saltmarsh restoration. Paul Adam
- What determines species distribution limits along an altitudinal gradient in Acacias? Paul Rymer
THEME 3: Crossing over – what can we learn from moving organisms other than plants?
- PLENARY – Mammals – looking backward, moving forward. Sarah Legge
- Bettongs as ecosystem engineers – the Mulligans Flat Woodland Experiment. Catherine Ross
THEME 4: Effective partnerships – who, why and how? What works and what doesn’t?
- PLENARY – From a burnt-out basement to a new home in the sun: the role of ecological consultants in plant translocation. Belinda Pellow
- The status of the Australian native seed sector. Results from the ANPC native seed survey. Nola Hancock
- On the receiving end: long term site management in the zone of the North Rothbury Persoonia. Monica Oppen
- Responding to the dreaded Myrtle Rust: a New Zealand botanic gardens perspective. Emma Bodley
- Restoring a Threatened Ecological Community following mining. Lucy Commander
THEME 6: Do you need a safe deposit box? The importance of ex-situ conservation in translocation.
- PLENARY – Ex situ seed banks are a good investment as small deposits drive big returns. Damian Wrigley
- Leek orchids vs. extinction: A new hope. Marc Freestone. Student prize recipient
- Western Australia’s safe deposit box. Anne Cochrane
- Playing to our strengths: applying horticulture and advocacy to threatened plant conservation at Auckland Botanic Gardens. Rebecca Stanley
- Ex situ seed conservation to furnish translocation and restoration: securing currency in the bank, and how to grow it. Caroline Chong
- Seed resources for restoration. Paul Gibson-Roy
- Cassinia tegulata survival linked to fire. Bryan Haywood
- Responses of nitre goosefoot (Chenopodium nitrariaceum) to simulated rainfall, and depth and duration of experimental flooding. Will Higgison
Plant Translocation Workshop
Based on the new Third Edition of the ANPC’s Guidelines for the Translocation of Threatened Species in Australia.
- Workshop introduction. Lucy Commander
- Plant translocation in Australia. Jen Silcock
- Deciding whether to translocate, and pre-translocation assessment of biology and ecology. Lucy Commander
- When do you need a geneticist, and site selection. Dave Coates
- Translocation policies and requirements for approvals. Simon Nally
- Pre-translocation preparation – using a model incorporating a genotype collection method. David Taylor
- The translocation and ongoing management. Leonie Monks
- Experimental design, monitoring and evaluation. Heidi Zimmer
- Case study: Whole plant transplantation. Steve Mueck
- Case study: Pomaderris delicata. Keith McDougall
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