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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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This webinar will require you to enter your first and last name, and email address to allow you to join the webinar. This simply allows us to ensure only ticket holding emails can attend due to limited spaces. We recommend allowing yourself five minutes prior to the webinar to register (through the usual webinar link) so you don’t miss out on the start. Thanks for your understanding!

One ticket = One webinar link (needed for one device). The number of tickets you require is based on the number of devices that will be used to join the webinar, not the number of people attending.

I.e. If multiple people will be attending the webinar on the same device (laptop, T.V. screen, computer, phone, etc.) then only one ticket must be reserved.

This webinar will require you to enter your first and last name, and email address to allow you to join the webinar. This simply allows us to ensure only ticket holding emails can attend due to limited spaces. We recommend allowing yourself five minutes prior to the webinar to register (through the usual webinar link) so you don’t miss out on the start. Thanks for your understanding!

Communicating How Home Gardeners can green W.A.

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!

Reserve your tickets to join us from the comfort of your own home, or relaxing on holiday with our Zoom link! Your personalised zoom link will come with your ticket confirmation, and we ask that it is not shared with anyone as each ticket is only available for one device – and we have limited tickets!

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Webinar: Prescribed Burning: the War on the Wild

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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A Jewel in the Crown of a Global Biodiversity Hotspot: Yule Brook and the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands

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.

Dirt-poor soils, pesky parasites and friendly fungi shape plant diversity in south-western Australia

Please join us for our first webinar series!

Presented by Hans Lambers, School of Biological Sciences, UWA

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Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot, with the greatest plant diversity on severely phosphorus-impoverished soils. Non-mycorrhizal plant families (e.g., Proteaceae) feature prominently on the poorest soils, and are uncommon on richer soils.

The ecological success of Proteaceae on severely impoverished soils can be explained by two traits. Almost all Proteaceae produce cluster roots, which mobilise the scarcely-available but essential element, phosphorus. Australian Proteaceae also use phosphorus very efficiently in photosynthesis, and show a tremendous capacity to remobilise it from senescing leaves.

But the Proteaceae are only one component of the extraordinary plant diversity. Why do species with a less effective phosphorus-acquisition strategy coexist with ones that are far superior in extracting phosphorus from our extremely poor soils? Facilitation by neighbours definitely plays a role, and nutrients mobilised by Proteaceae are also used by neighbours without this strategy. It is only part of the story, however, and we are unlocking the next chapter of how native parasites (oomycetes or water-moulds) also contribute to the megadiversity in the southwest.