Baselining the Avon

摘要

Straddling Australia's only globally recognised biodiversity hotspot is the Avon Natural Resource Management Region-an area of extraordinary species diversity. Who would think that this largely cleared and primarily agricultural region contains more than 25 per cent of Australia's and more than 1.5 per cent of the world's flowering plant taxa? This is only one of the reasons for the development of a project aimed of determining the natural values of the regin.