Just add water: exceptional plant recruitment in arid zone mine rehabilitation

Rachel J. Standish; Todd E. Erickson; Jonathan Fisher; Tim K. Morald

doi:10.1071/PC25024

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Just add water: exceptional plant recruitment in arid zone mine rehabilitation

Rachel J. Standish

^A ^* , Todd E. Erickson ^B , Jonathan Fisher ^C and Tim K. Morald ^A

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^A School of Environmental and Conservation Sciences and the Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.

^B Biologic Seed Pty Ltd, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia.

^C BHP Yandi, WAIO, Newman, WA 6753, Australia.

^* Correspondence to: R.Standish@murdoch.edu.au

Handling Editor: Mike Calver

Pacific Conservation Biology 31, PC25024 https://doi.org/10.1071/PC25024

Submitted: 31 March 2025 Accepted: 28 April 2025 Published: 20 May 2025

© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)

Keywords: ecological restoration, iron ore mining, low rainfall, persistent soil seed bank, Pilbara, revegetation, seed dormancy, seedling establishment.

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