Yule Brook Botany Reserve, also known as Yule Brook Reserve and Cannington Swamps, is a 34.6-hectare (85-acre) parcel of land in the Perth, Western Australia suburb of Kenwick. It is owned by the University of Western Australia, and used by them for botanical research and teaching.
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It was purchased by the university in 1949, and carefully surveyed the following year by botanist N. H. Speck. In 1979 it was gazetted as a reserve, ensuring that it cannot be developed without the approval of both the local council and the state government's metropolitan planning authority.[1]
The site is especially valuable for botanical research, as it is located where two sand ridges cross a seasonally wet lowland. Hence there is a very great variety of habitats and vegetation within a small area. Numerous studies have been published based on experiments and observations in the reserve, and some species have been published based on type specimens collected within the reserve.[2][3]
Notes
edit- ^ Yule Brook Reserve : interim guidelines for necessary operations, Dept. of Conservation & Land Management, 1987, retrieved 22 February 2019
- ^ Stephens, Lindsay; University of Western Australia. Department of Botany (1985), Phenological responses of selected species from the Yule Brook Reserve, Kenwick, retrieved 22 February 2019
- ^ J Lewis; DT Bell (1981), "Reproductive isolation of co-occurring Banksia species at the Yule Brook Botany Reserve, Western Australia", Australian Journal of Botany, 29 (6), CSIRO PUBLISHING: 665–674, doi:10.1071/bt9810665, ISSN 1444-9862
References
edit- Speck, N. H. and A. M. Baird (1984). "Vegetation of Yule Brook Reserve near Perth, Western Australia". Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia. 66 (4): 147–162.