Revegetation Monitoring Toolkit
John Kanowski1, Carla P. Catterall1, Kylie
Freebody1,2, Amanda N. D. Freeman1 and
Debra A. Harrison1,3
1 School of Environment, Griffith University
2 Tablelands Community Revegetation Unit
3 Terrain NRM Ltd
ISBN 978-1-921359-51-4
Published July 2010
Associated with MTSRF Project 4.9.5 -
Restoring tropical forest landscapes
Purpose of the Toolkit
This toolkit has been written to assist community groups and
restoration practitioners record details of their revegetation
projects, assess their condition and monitor their outcomes for
biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Additionally, the methods
presented here can also be applied to other situations where there
is a need to monitor and evaluate change in forest ecosystems,
including assessment of the extent of degradation or recovery
within remnant forest.
Structure of the Toolkit (Version 3)
Version 3 (this document) of the monitoring toolkit was written
as a series of modules, each dealing with a specific aspect of
monitoring, as follows:
- The design of monitoring programs;
- Recording project details;
- Assessing the condition of projects;
- Monitoring forest structure;
- Monitoring plant species composition;
- Estimating carbon sequestration;
- Monitoring bird species composition; and
- Managing, analysing and evaluating data.
Supporting Materials
Several Microsoft Excel spreadsheets have been developed to
accompany this version of the monitoring toolkit to help store,
analyse and summarise the data collected from monitoring of
revegetated sites and to provide scientific input. Each
includes a page of explanatory notes (the first spreadsheet within
each file). Additionally with this version we have provided
supporting materials such as data proformas as separate files for
download.
The following supporting materials are available for download
for use in conjunction with the Toolkit Version 3:
Data analysis Excel workbooks
- Monitoring toolkit forest structure V3.xls
- Monitoring toolkit floristic composition V3.xls
- Monitoring toolkit plant attributes V3.xls
- Monitoring toolkit wood density V3.xls
- Monitoring toolkit bird species composition V3.xls
- Monitoring toolkit bird species composition (demo) V3.xls
Data collection proformas and related
materials
- Project Proforma
- Site Proforma
- Description of On-ground Works
- Project Journal
- Proforma for Assessing Site Condition
- Proforma for Monitoring Forest Structure
- Proforma for Monitoring Floristic Composition
- Proforma for Monitoring Bird Species Composition
- Appendix 1: Reference photographs of canopy cover
- Appendix 4: Recording cyclone damage to trees
For further information about the Toolkit, contact either
John Kanowski, j.kanowski@griffith.edu.au,
or
Carla Catterall, c.catterall@griffith.edu.au
