Conservation of plant diversity in native pastures on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales

Title
Conservation of plant diversity in native pastures on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Schultz, Nicholas
Reid, Nick
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4377-9734
Email: nrei3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nrei3
Lodge, Gregory Mark
Editor
Editor(s): Cathy Waters and Denys Garden
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Grassland Society of NSW
Place of publication
Orange, Australia
UNE publication id
une:9587
Abstract
Vegetation surveys were used to assess how grazed native pastures conserve ground storey plant diversity compared with remnant Grassy Box Woodlands. Pastures had greater alpha diversity (species richness) than the woodlands, though the woodlands had much greater beta diversity across the study region. Despite higher diversity at the site scale, native pastures were homogenous in composition and did not conserve a large proportion of the regional ground storey species pool. The study highlighted the importance of observing plant diversity at multiple spatial scales.
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Citation
'Adapting mixed farms to future environments': Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW, p. 114-115
ISBN
9781742560311
Start page
114
End page
115

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