Long-term revegetation success of severely degraded chenopod shrublands

The restoration of severely degraded vegetation communities is often said to require mechanical intervention. However, the degree of intervention required, and its capacity to successfully restore areas of bare (scalded) soil and high weed cover into functioning chenopod shrubland, is unknown. Ten years on from mechanical intervention and direct seeding using a Contour Seeder and Camel Pitter, the abundance and cover of species was compared across disturbed and undisturbed microtopographic zones using one-way repeated-measures ANOVA and pairwise t-tests. Along Contour Seeder rip lines, recruitment of perennial species was greatest in the furrow (e.g. direct seeded: F2,78 = 27.15, P