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

Nicholas Schultz; Nick Reid; Gregory Mark Lodge

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

Nicholas Schultz
, Nick Reid
, Gregory Mark Lodge

School of Environmental & Rural Science

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	'Adapting mixed farms to future environments': Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW
Editors	Cathy Waters, Denys Garden
Place of Publication	Orange, Australia
Publisher	Grassland Society of NSW
Pages	114-115
ISBN (Print)	9781742560311
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	GrasslandNSW 2010: 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW - Dubbo, Australia Duration: 28 Jul 2010 → 29 Jul 2010

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Conference	GrasslandNSW 2010: 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW
City	Dubbo, Australia
Period	28/07/10 → 29/07/10

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Conservation and Biodiversity

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Schultz, N., Reid, N., & Lodge, G. M. (2010). Conservation of plant diversity in native pastures on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales. In C. Waters, & D. Garden (Eds.), 'Adapting mixed farms to future environments': Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW (pp. 114-115). Grassland Society of NSW. https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9396

Schultz, Nicholas ; Reid, Nick ; Lodge, Gregory Mark. / Conservation of plant diversity in native pastures on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales. 'Adapting mixed farms to future environments': Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW. editor / Cathy Waters ; Denys Garden. Orange, Australia : Grassland Society of NSW, 2010. pp. 114-115

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Schultz, N, Reid, N & Lodge, GM 2010, Conservation of plant diversity in native pastures on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales. in C Waters & D Garden (eds), 'Adapting mixed farms to future environments': Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW. Grassland Society of NSW, Orange, Australia, pp. 114-115, GrasslandNSW 2010: 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW, Dubbo, Australia, 28/07/10. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9396>

Conservation of plant diversity in native pastures on the North-West Slopes of New South Wales. / Schultz, Nicholas; Reid, Nick; Lodge, Gregory Mark.
'Adapting mixed farms to future environments': Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of The Grassland Society of NSW. ed. / Cathy Waters; Denys Garden. Orange, Australia: Grassland Society of NSW, 2010. p. 114-115.

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