This project will focus on the role of environmental filters underpinning the patterns of species pools, dark diversity, and community completeness. Our Linkage Project is focusing on the fields of dark-diversity and community ecology, using data on vegetation characterised by contrasting community assembly processes, involving kwongan shrublands and Jarrah forests of Western Australia, Nullarbor scrub vegetation of South Australian semi-deserts, and species-poor, salt-marsh vegetation of South Africa. In the broader perspective the project will help to develop AI-driven tools to more effectively monitor the vegetation against restoration targets and deepen our understanding of how a community reassembles after disturbance by mining. Such tools will benefit both industry and regulators by enhancing the on-ground decisions and practices applied in ecosystem rehabilitation.