Demographic effects of habitat restoration for the grey-crowned babbler pomatostomus temporalis, in Victoria, Australia

Abstract

Background: Considerable resources are spent on habitat restoration across the globe to counter the impacts of habitat loss and degradation on wildlife populations. But, because of time and resourcing constraints onmany conservation programs, the effectiveness of these habitat restoration programs in achieving their long-termgoals of improving the population viability of particular wildlife species is rarely assessed andmany restoration programs cannot demonstrate their effectiveness.Without such demonstration, and in particular demonstrating the causal relationships between habitat restoration actions and demographic responses of the target species, investments in restoration to achieve pop..