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The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan includes endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland, a regionally-important haven for native wildlife. Managing the native woodlands, grasslands and open space areas is essential to maintain habitat and support healthy fauna populations.
 

The science of ecology is about understanding the interactions of living organisms with each other and with their environment.

These are the stages in the life cycle of the plant:

Now consider the processes of pollination, seed dispersal and predation in the context of the life cycle, as well as ongoing processes such as seasonality and aging.

Impacting events are naturally recurring episodic events that have a severe, often immediate, impact on the woodland plants, but which they are generally able to cope with and recover, though sometimes with marked changes in population abundance.

The woodland contains many different organisms but plants are the biggest and most obvious. A few species are trees but most are groundlayer plants, which make up about 90% of the flora.

Seeing animals is always an exciting part of the woodland visit but most are small, shy or nocturnal, and difficult to see. Invertebrates are creatures that you will see, if you look carefully!

In the same way that banks secure our money for future use, seed banking is a safe method of storing seeds for later use in conservation, restoration, horticultural development or research.

Our Collections Management team cares for, curates, shares, and preserves the botanical collections housed at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney.