Integrating local knowledge and research to refine the management of an invasive non-native grass in critically endangered grassy woodlands

1. Globally the prevalence and impact of invasive non-native plant species is increasing rapidly. Experimentally-based research aimed at supporting management is limited in its ability to keep up with this pace, partly because of the importance of understanding historical abiotic and biotic conditions. Contrastingly, landholders are in unique positions to witness species turnover in grasslands, adapt management practices in response, and learn from successes and failures. 2. This local knowledge could be crucial for identifying feasible solutions to land degradation, and ecological restoration, but local knowledge is rarely explicitly embedded in ecological research. 3. In this study, we use a sequential exploratory strategy where we first interview (semi-directive approach) 15 landholders within the Bega region of New South Wales, Australia concerning the changing ecological characteristics of both extensively and intensively managed grassy woodlands and perceived impacts following a...1. 全球范围内，外来入侵植物物种的扩散规模与危害程度正快速加剧。旨在为入侵植物管理提供支撑的实验类研究，却难以跟上这一发展节奏，究其原因，部分在于厘清历史非生物与生物环境条件的重要性不言而喻。与之形成鲜明反差的是，土地所有者拥有独特的观测视角，能够亲身见证草地的物种更替，并据此调整管理实践，从实践的成败中汲取经验。2. 这类本土知识对于识别土地退化与生态修复的可行解决方案或至关重要，但此类本土知识却极少被明确融入生态科学研究范畴。3. 本研究采用序列探索性研究策略：首先以半定向访谈法（semi-directive approach），对澳大利亚新南威尔士州比加地区的15位土地所有者开展访谈，访谈内容涵盖粗放经营与集约管理两种模式下的草本林地生态特征变化，以及受访者感知到的相关影响，后续研究将……