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We are very excited to be joined by Professor Stephen D. Hopper AC as our guest speaker for the November webinar!
Professor Hopper will summarise close to 60 years of visiting the Leeuwin Naturaliste Ridge, and focuses on rare plant surveys conducted in the 1980s when substantial components of the flora were undescribed. For example, of the 50 species of Caladenia (Orchidaceae) now known in the Augusta Margaret River Shire, about half were named by Prof Hopper and colleagues, notably Andrew Brown. Local endemics are a feature of the Ridge. Rare communities include those of inland granite outcrops, each with their own mix of rock outcrop and gnamma (rock pool) species. Also some rare hybrids are known. The fire ephemeral Eremosyne pectinata is from an ancient lineage allied to rainforest shrubs and trees of eastern Australia and South America. Discoveries of new weeds is still occurring. Lastly, a completely fresh perspective on the flora emerges from walking together with Wadandi people, the Webb family in particular.
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Welcome to our fourth webinar where we are luck enough to be joined by Nancy Scade; where they will be presenting on how we can communicate to home gardeners can green WA! A topic of native plant survival many of us are interested in from past failed attempts! But not only will Nancy be helping us in our gardens, but discussing the impacts of our garden choices and how choosing local flora does much more for our environment than just look fantastic!
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Please join us for our webinar with guest speaker Dr. Philip Zylstra, Adjunct Associate Professor from the School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University.
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Continue reading “Webinar: Prescribed Burning: the War on the Wild” →
Joint us for our second webinar of the series with guest speaker; Emeritus Professor Hans Lambers from the school of biological sciences of UWA.
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Webinar Summary:
South-western Australia is a global biodiversity hotspot, where the greatest plant species diversity is found on the most severely nutrient-impoverished soils. Three National Parks and Greater Perth harbour the greatest plant species diversity in south-western Australia. Within Greater Perth, the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands are notorious for their enormous plant species richness, and home to numerous plant species that have special conservation value as well as several threatened ecological communities. If we do not mitigate climate change and continue to develop Perth based on out-of-date principles that ignore the sensitive hydrology of our region, many threatened species and ecological communities will be pushed towards extinction. We have a choice, and can prevent at least some of this, but we have to act, and act now.
Barbara Rye is a taxonomic botanist who has worked for a long time at the Herbarium, most recently revising the classification of Myrtaceae. New names! New genera even! She will describe the whys and wherefores and show us a way around the changes that have occurred. Essential listening if you want to keep up to date! She is also a long-term contributor to ‘Flora of Australia’ and will also fill us in with what activities are happening in that area.
Mound Springs are a distinctive wetland type in the Kimberley and adjacent regions in Western Australia and are listed as threatened or priority ecological communities. Until recent survey work by DBCA most have been poorly described and their biodiversity values not well understood. The presentation will focus the flora and vegetation of these unique wetlands in an otherwise seasonally
arid landscape.
Leonie Monks works on the management and conservation of Threatened Flora, including the value of fire and of intact insect populations in plant life cycles. She will tell us how the Spiral-fruited Wattle was brought back from extinction, and give details of the huge amount of planning that goes into Flora Management Plans.
This talk should open our eyes to the complexity of complexity of the natural world that links plant to place.
Herbariums contain centuries of botanical specimens gathered from around the globe. Changes in research and technology make the information contained in these specimens even more important in documenting the impacts of global change.
In this presentation, Shelley will describe how the Western Australian Herbarium fits within the global network of herbarium collections, why continued advocacy for high research quality botanical collecting and preservation of collections is needed, and how current efforts to efficiently digitize and provide online access of our herbarium collections is increasingly important and valuable for the documentation and discovery of the flora of Western Australia and to global biodiversity research.
Dr Shelley James is the Collections Manager of the Western Australian Herbarium, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions. She has been a botanical research scientist for more than two decades.
Come and share some interesting plant moments with other members! Show and tell – the wonderful everlastings at Paynes Find – an orchid on Mt Kinabalu – a new species found in your bush block – something you would like identified – or whatever! Put your pics onto a memory stick in Powerpoint if possible please, maximum 10 slides. Talk for around 5 minutes. We look forward to sharing some fascinating plant stories!
Don’t forget specimens for the nature table!
SERCUL’s Education and Promotion Manager, Natasha Bowden will be presenting at the February meeting, talking about Bush Tucker and the Noongar Six Seasons, discussing the plants and animals that were, and in many cases still are, used by the Whadjuk Noongars for food, medicine and survival purposes.
