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Friday 10th. July 2009

  Speaker:

Dr Ross Peacock

  Topic:

Patterns of long-term recovery in vegetation following logging

  Background:

Ross Peacock is a plant ecologist employed by the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change, based at Macquarie University in the Department of Biological Sciences. Ross and his team of researchers have projects which include a study of the impacts of climate change on North Coast plant communities, the development of predictive models of the distribution of vegetation in north western NSW for the catchment authorities and the development of biodiversity monitoring systems for production forests in Tasmania.

Ross has worked for a wide range of forest management and nature conservation agencies in Tasmania, Victoria and NSW. For his PhD, Ross examined how vegetation in Tasmania responded to the application of different logging systems used on steep slopes, for example how cable logging differed from conventional ground based systems. He will describe the results of work he commenced in Victoria in the late 1980’s and Tasmania in the early 1990’s which examines how vegetation communities respond to logging disturbance, work which has continued using the original study sites. Ross will also overview work in progress describing how cool temperate rainforests logged in the 1940’s and 1950’s in northern NSW (and since incorporated into the reserve network) are recovering and potentially responding to the effects of global warming.

 

 

Valette Williams Scholarship in Botany

The Valette Williams Scholarship in Botany is offered by the North Shore Group, for Honours, Masters or PhD students in botany.

The recipient of the Valette Williams Scholarship is Liza Xian, a BSc Honours student at the University of Western Sydney.

Walks and Talks 21st Anniversary

The group celebrated their 21st anniverary with a cake.

Plant Identification Course 2009

Four Saturdays 15/22 Aug and 5/12 Sept 2009, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Presented by Dr Joan Webb.
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Who are we?

We are a group of people with various interests
in Australian Native Plants.

Our interests include:

  • Plant identification including courses
  • Plant propagation
  • Growing plants
  • Plant ecology
  • Rare and threatened species
  • Bushwalking
  • Photography
  • Conservation of Australian plants
  • Bush regeneration
  • Garden design

The APS North Shore Group is based in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney, NSW Australia. Our members come from wide area, from Galston in the north west to St Ives in the east and as far south as Concord. However you do not have to live in the area to join.

 

 

 


Members at a plant sale

Our activities include:

  • Monthly meetings with a Guest speaker held on second Friday of the month at the"Willow Park Community Centre" Edgeworth David Ave. Hornsby. Visitors are always welcome
  • Walks and Talks Programme
  • Monthly bushwalks
  • Propagation Group
  • Plant Identification Courses
  • A regular news letter "Blandfordia"
  • Ku-ring-gai Wild Flower Festival

 

 

Last up-dated 29th. June 09

We are affiliated with the NSW Region of Australian Plants Society which is part of the national body the Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants