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Natural grasslands are threatened globally. In south-eastern Australia, remnants of critically endangered natural grasslands are increasingly being isolated in urban areas. Urbanisation has led to reduced fire frequency and woody plant encroachment in some patches. Grasslands are currently being managed under the assumption that desirable managemen...
Research on values for natural areas has largely focussed on theoretical concerns such as distinguishing different kinds of values held by people. However practice, policymaking, planning and management is typically focused on more tangible valued attributes of the landscape such as biodiversity and recreation infrastructure that can be manipulated...
There has been much debate about the effectiveness of different sized reserves for nature conservation. However, in human-dominated landscapes such as cities, conservation reserve systems are, by necessity, often determined without using conservation planning principles. This can result in reserve systems that are small, fragmented and disconnected...
Since the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne (RBGC) opened the Australian Garden to the public in May 2006, public programs have aimed to influence gardeners to use Australian native plants (Russell et al. 2012). While there is some anecdotal evidence that the RBGC is having an influence on private garden design, we know relatively little about who i...
