Ecological Archives E087-180-A1

Nicholas S. G. Williams, John W. Morgan, Michael A. McCarthy, and Mark J. McDonnell. 2006. Local extinction of grassland plants: the landscape matrix is more important than patch attributes. Ecology 87:3000–3006.

Appendix A. Attributes of 30 native grasslands in western Victoria sampled in the 1980s and 2001–2002 to determine the local extinction of native plant species.

Site No.

Site name

Area (ha)

Distance to nearest
grassland patch (km)

Length of road (km)
within 5 km

Maximum
fire interval (yrs)

1

Dunkeld Flora Reserve

2.0

3.7

52.1

9

2

North Gums Rd Penshurst

2.0

7.7

66.5

1

3

Chatsworth-Hexham Rd Chatsworth

4.5

6.0

58.3

2

4

Woorndoo-Streatham Rd Neerin-Neerin

1.5

7.3

46.9

2

5

Yalla y Poora Recreation Reserve

1.6

9.6

62.1

5

6

Dobies Bridge Rail Easement

0.6

9.6

91.2

5

7

Middle Creek Rail Easement

1.5

6.7

86.8

5

8

Chatsworth Rd Derrinallum

10.0

8.8

28.9

2

9

Vite Vite Railway Station Reserve

1.5

8.9

48.3

2

10

Cressy Trotting Track

2.0

7.1

85.0

1

11

Rokewood Cemetery

2.5

6.9

109.0

7

12

Mt Mercer Rd

0.8

3.4

34.8

2

13

Bannockburn Rail Easement

15.0

7.5

140.8

4

14

Lara Rail Easement

3.7

8.2

249.6

12

15

Little River Rail Easement

2.4

8.0

142.0

13

16

Narraburra Rd Rail Easement

4.3

8.0

147.7

10

17

Manor Rail Easement

6.8

6.4

190.2

9

18

Rockbank Rail Easement

0.6

6.0

217.5

16

19

Truganina Cemetery

0.9

6.5

175.3

7

20

Laverton Rail Easement

3.3

6.9

436.2

9

21

Union Carbide

16.0

6.9

384.4

16

22

Braybrook Rail Easement

2.2

6.6

755.6

10

23

O’Brien Park

2.7

5.5

721.6

8

24

Sunshine Rail Easement

0.3

5.5

705.9

5

25

St Albans Grassland

0.8

5.5

723.0

10

26

Denton Ave Grassland

4.9

5.5

719.7

16

27

St Albans Rail Easement

1.1

6.9

704.6

6

28

Calder Rail Easement

0.7

7.1

255.2

14

29

Diggers Rest-Sunbury Rail Easement

5.0

7.3

302.9

9

30

Evans Street Grassland

3.7

7.3

300.5

6



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