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- Title
Flora and vegetation of greenstone formations of the Yilgarn Craton: south-west Ravensthorpe Greenstone Belt.
- Authors
THOMPSON, WENDY A.; ALLEN, JESSICA; JASPER, ROSEMARY
- Abstract
A quadrat-based survey of the flora of the south-west region of the Ravensthorpe Greenstone Belt identified 321 taxa, including six taxa of conservation significance and three weed species. All of the conservation-listed taxa were known to the area. Range extensions were recorded for three taxa and additional collections of two Austrostipa species currently under taxonomic description were made. Six community types were derived from statistical classification of the 50 quadrats. These community types were similar to those described from other parts of the Ravensthorpe Greenstone Belt. As with the other greenstone belts of the Yilgarn Craton, soil chemical parameters and site physical characteristics were influential in delineating community types. Only a small portion of the study area is in the conservation estate; mining and exploration pressures remain the primary threat to this species-rich area.
- Subjects
BOTANY; GREENSTONE belts; IGNEOUS rocks; WEED ecology; CONSERVATION biology; ULTRABASIC rocks; PLANT diversity
- Publication
Conservation Science Western Australia, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 3, p313
- ISSN
1447-3682
- Publication type
Article