Monitoring vegetation change over 30 years: lessons from an urban bushland reserve in Sydney
- For the successful long-term management of biodiversity in conservation reserves, science and management need to work together. In 2008 we resampled two transects in a small urban reserve in northern Sydney under longterm conservation management. The transects were established in 1976 and recorded again in 1987 and 1998 (by other workers). We looked at plant species changes by growthforms, family (Fabaceae) and conservation-significance. Over the 30-year period the structure of the understorey has changed markedly, and despite ongoing weeding programs, the frequency of species identified as significant for conservation has continued to decrease. Despite periodic recommendations for ecological burning since 1987, supported by the monitoring data, this has not been attempted. We discuss the lessons for ecology, monitoring and management evident in this long-term monitoring study.
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| Author: | Doug Benson, Diana Picone |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-293265 |
| ISSN: | 2200-405X |
| ISSN: | 0727-9620 |
| Parent Title (English): | Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia |
| Publisher: | Mount Annan Botanic Garden, The Administration Officer |
| Place of publication: | Mount Annan, NSW |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2013/04/12 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/04/12 |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 8 |
| First Page: | 195 |
| Last Page: | 202 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 336859538 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 58 Pflanzen (Botanik) / 580 Pflanzen (Botanik) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Cunninghamia : A Journal of Plant Ecology for Eastern Australia / Cunninghamia : A Journal of Plant Ecology for Eastern Australia, Volume 11, Issue 2 (2009) |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-296655 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
