PRESENTATION SLIDES

We are pleased to share selected presentation slides from the 2026 Cumberland Plain Research Symposium.

Please note: not all presentations are available. Where indicated, please contact us and we can connect you directly with the speaker.

Engaging People

Joshua Staines – Defining Cultural Fire across the Cumberland Plain Woodland (Email us)

Steph Hernandez – The Socio-economic Challenges in Developing Restoration Policy. Lessons from the New South Wales Biodiversity Offsets Scheme (Email us)

Emmanuel Ugwu – Differential social and ecological outcomes of private land conservation agreements in New South Wales, Western Sydney, and the CPCP Strategic Conservation Area (Email us)

On-ground Restoration

David Keith – Insights into conservation of native vegetation in fragmented landscapes from long term studies

Vera O’Donovan – Fire as a Restoration Tool: Early Outcomes from the Cumberland Plain Restoration Program

Xuela Sledge - Cumberland Plain Restoration Program: off Park sites (Email us)

Rajendra Shilpakar - Spatially Explicit Revegetation to Enhance Biodiversity Benefits in Cumberland Plain Woodland (Email us)

Paul Gibson-Roy - Characterisation of 9 CPW Restorations 10-years Post Seeding (Email us)

Translating Evidence

Hannah Carle – A first look at how climate sensitivity is distributed across plant diversity in the Cumberland Plains (Email us)

Alison Hewitt – Reserve rating tool guides restoration and biodiversity connectivity targets across one of NSWs largest Council

Scott Mooney & Helen McCarthy – Using palaeoecological techniques to consider the pre-European structure and composition of Cumberland Plain Woodland

Chaminda Alahakoon - From lab to field: Can species germination niches predict seedling recruitment across climate regions and microhabitat conditions in the Cumberland Plain?

Zahra Emlaei - Interactive Effects of Climate Change and Habitat Fragmentation on Plant Performance and Flammability

Caitlin Dagg - Understanding biodiversity change in Cumberland Plain remnants: what LiDAR, birds, and plants are telling us (Email us)

Paola Pisetta Raupp - Restoring woodland understories under changing rainfall: the roles of seeding diversity and soil layer (Email us)

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Welcome & Introduction

Paul Rymer - Welcome & Introduction

Government & CPCP Updates

Maria Plytarias - Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan & Research Update

Mat Misdale - Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan: Reconstructing Cumberland Plain Woodland from paddocks