Ecological Restoration: Moving Forward Using Lessons Learned

Professor Singarayer Florentine is a restoration and invasive species ecologist, with more than 25 years of experience in research and higher education teaching. He has been specialising in work on ecologically diverse habitats, and has had experience in three different countries. Florentine earned his PhD from Curtin University in Western Australia, and then moved to Queensland where he worked as Weed Scientist with the Tropical Weeds Research Centre. While he was School for Field Studies at the Centre for Rainforest Studies, Queensland, he was involved in several tropical rainforest restoration projects and began to conduct research into weed invasion in fragmented landscapes.
Dr Linda Broadhurst recently retired as Director of the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, a joint venture between CSIRO National Research Collections Australia and the Director of National Parks. During Linda's research career her has researchinterests included conservation and restoration genetics and improving seed collection practices for better restoration outcomes. She also spent many years translating scientific findings to help improve on ground seed collection and use practices to ensure that plantings has a broad genetic base.
Dr Paul Gibson-Roy is a restoration ecologist specialising in grassland and grassy woodland communities. Paul has worked with various groups including universities, NGOs, governments and private businesses to increase the focus on the need to protect and restore these communities. His work has included detailed research and field scale implementation of practice. In addition, he has also been keenly involved in better understanding the dynamics and capacity of the broader seed and restoration sectors, in particular around seed production and seed supply chains, to provide effective restoration services. He has spent many years communicating findings fromresearch and practice and advocating for better restoration policy, programs, and outcomes.
Professor Kingsley Dixon is a restoration ecologist and conservation biologist, with 40 years of global experience focused on landscape-scale restoration and conservation through community-led practices. He holds positions on international and national boards and commissions including President of the international Society for Ecological Restoration and member of the Task Force on Best Practices for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Kingsley was awarded the Linnean Medal in 2013 for his significant contribution to the science of natural history

辛加瑞·佛羅倫丁教授是一位專注於生態修復和入侵物種的生態學家，擁有超過25年的研究和高等教育教學經驗。他專注於生態多樣性棲息地的研究，並在三個不同國家積累了經驗。佛羅倫丁在西澳大利亞的科廷大學獲得博士學位，隨後移居昆士蘭，擔任熱帶雜草研究中心的雜草科學家。在昆士蘭的熱帶雨林研究中心的實地研究學校工作期間，他參與了幾個熱帶雨林修復項目，並開始研究破碎化景觀中的雜草入侵。

琳達·布羅德赫斯特博士最近退休，曾擔任澳大利亞國家生物多樣性研究中心的主任，該中心是CSIRO國家研究收藏澳大利亞與國家公園局的合資企業。在琳達的研究生涯中，她的研究興趣包括保育和修復遺傳學，以及改善種子收集實踐以獲得更好的修復結果。她還花了多年時間將科學發現轉化為實踐，以改善現場的種子收集和使用，確保植栽具有廣泛的遺傳基礎。

保羅·吉布森-羅伊博士是一位專注於草原和草地林地社區的修復生態學家。保羅與各種團體合作，包括大學、非政府組織、政府和私營企業，以提高對保護和修復這些社區需求的重視。他的工作包括詳細的研究和實地規模的實施。此外，他還積極參與更好地理解更廣泛的種子和修復部門的動態和能力，特別是在種子生產和種子供應鏈方面，以提供有效的修復服務。他花了多年時間傳達研究和實踐的發現，並倡導更好的修復政策、計劃和結果。

金斯利·迪克森教授是一位修復生態學家和保育生物學家，擁有40年的全球經驗，專注於通過社區主導的實踐進行景觀規模的修復和保育。他在國際和國家委員會及董事會中擔任職務，包括國際生態修復學會的會長和聯合國生態系統修復十年最佳實踐工作組的成員。金斯利於2013年獲得林奈獎，以表彰他對自然歷史科學的重大貢獻。