Over the past few months the LiFT team has been working to explore the meaning of landscape function. We have rolled out a survey to land managers to find out what landscapes they are working in, property visions, what they are currently monitoring, how to measure their success, preferences for recording and visualizing data, and what would be useful to them as a LiFT tool.
We have been working hard in developing our draft monitoring matrix through identifying relevant landscape function indicators, and exploring methodologies to track and monitor landscapes as they move between dysfunction and functional states.
We have also been assessing the many apps and tools available to monitor the components of a landscape and are heading into the field to test a few.
A number of meetings with our Consortium partners have also begun, to explore their ideas and involvement.
The Landscape Function Toolkit (LiFT) project, equipping Australia with a systems-approach to landscape climate resilience is supported by the Australian Government through funding from the Climate-Smart Agriculture Program under the Natural Heritage Trust.
