Threatened Plant Plan Living Collection

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>This
dataset contains a list of 200 plant species and their priority as appropriate
threatened species for planting in City of Melbourne green spaces. This is
based on a Threatened Species Assessment Tool developed by Royal Botanic
Gardens Victoria that was used to provide a framework to assess and prioritise
the inclusion of threatened species into landscape plantings. The tool includes
information and scoring for cultivation requirements, conservation benefits and
horticultural potential which are the foundation of the assessment. Additional
benefits specific to the City of Melbourne and potential weed threat were also
considered as part of the assessment process. Higher priority was given to
species which are the most threatened and are indigenous to the City of
Melbourne.</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 84, 106); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>From
this assessment process, a priority list of 56 species has been short-listed as
appropriate threatened species for planting.  </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 84, 106); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>For
inclusion in the Threatened Species Assessment Tool, all species were required
to be listed as threatened in Victoria.</span><span style="color: rgb(68, 84, 106); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Scores
were calculated based on the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
 <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#44546A;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Cultivation
     Requirements Subtotal = Cultivation Protocols + Propagation Protocols<o:p></o:p></span></li>
 <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#44546A;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Conservation
     Subtotal = Germplasm Source + Conservation Status + Germplasm Origin +
     Provenance + Additional Conservation Benefit<o:p></o:p></span></li>
 <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#44546A;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Total
     Score = Cultivation Requirements Subtotal + Conservation Subtotal +
     Additional Local Benefits Subtotal<o:p></o:p></span></li>
 <li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:#44546A;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Total
     Score including Horticultural Potential = Cultivation Requirements
     Subtotal + Conservation Subtotal + Additional Local Benefits Subtotal +
     Horticultural Potential</span> </li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'>Thresholds
were set in certain categories which resulted in the removal of species from
priority selection. Species with cells marked with an asterisk (*) were removed
from the final priority plant list. In addition, an overall Total Score
threshold of 20 was chosen for final species selection. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#44546A'> </span><span style="color: rgb(68, 84, 106); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">This
dataset is based on the “City of Melbourne Threatened Plant Living Collection
Plan” produced by R. Larke, M. Hirst and J. Arnott of the Royal Botanic Gardens
Victoria, and N.S.G. Williams of the University of Melbourne. For documented
methods please refer to the report (attached).</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

Tags: aboriginal, environment, nature, plants
Organization: City of Melbourne