Figure 19.1 The Great Australian Sprawl
Reproduced with permission from Downton P. F (2002) Ecopolis - Towards an Integrated Theory for the Design, Development and Maintenance of Ecological Cities Ph D Dissertation Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies Department of Geographical and Environmental Studies Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Adelaide

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The boat shaped diatom is not Navicula, but is the motile filamentous cyanobacteria Oscillatoria.

Suggestions for changes to “Adelaide nature of a City The ecology of a Dynamic City from 1836 to 2036”
Most of my suggestions are just simple name changes. I also noted that the newest name should be used and the old name listed as a synonym or left in brackets, the appendix lists in this text have the reverse which make it difficult to find plants using current names.

The following are suggested changes that I felt need attention in the next edition:

1.    The maps included in the current text on p.19 & 41are excellent however I feel you need to explicitly state the geographical limits of this study as in Dashorst & Jessop,1998.  From a user’s point of view I need to know if the text refers to maps which extend to Sellicks Beach, Mylor & Gawler as in p.19 or is the study confined to the central Adelaide Plains as in p.41. As an example, if I had located a species of plant which is on an extinct list, is it significant if found in Belair or outside the scope of this study?

2.    p.40 Eucalyptus leucoxylon probably should include the subspecies as there are a few in S.A.= Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp. leucoxylon.

3.    p.42 & 576 Pittosporum phylliraeoides is now Pittosporum angustifolium in S.A. ( Barker et al.2005) (the former is retained in W.A. where it is now regarded as a separate species).

4.    p.50 Danthonia = Austrodanthonia ( Barker et al.2005).

5.    p.88 “coastal environments contained many species, but in particular oaks (Quercus sp.)” when discussing the original native vegetation of the Adelaide coastal region. Quercus spp.(x3) also appear in your introduced plant species list as I would have expected.

6.    p.88 Present is misspelled in chapter 1 of “Changes to the Native vegetation”.

7.    p.94 No introduced orchids, A common and very invasive species of orchid, Disa bracteata (syn. Monadenia bracteata) northern & southern Lofty region ( Barker et al.2005), also see p. 587 where it is listed as an introduced orchid species.

8.    p.107-8 Reference list does not include the most recent fourth edition of the Flora of South Australia (1986) and does not refer to the most recent Census of South Australian Vascular Plants (Edition 5.00), these are surely a must for your research.

9.    p.112 Callitris preisii has a spelling error ( C. pressii ) and note that this species is now C. gracilis in S.A. ( Barker et al.2005).

10.    p.237 & p. 570 Eucalyptus rubida is now E. dalrympleana ssp. dalrympleana ( Barker et al.2005).

11.    p.296 & p.562 Acacia longifolia- it should probably be made clear that it was A. longifolia ssp. sophorae that was part of our original vegetation and not the now weedy east coast subspecies A. longifolia ssp. longifolia ( Barker et al.2005). A. longifolia ssp. longifolia could be added to the introduced species list as Barker et al.2005 list it in the northern and southern Lofty region.

12.    p.563 Adriana klotzschii=  A. quadripartita ( Barker et al.2005).

13.    p.563 Allocasuarina pauper= Casuarina pauper.

14.    p.566 Calocephalus brownii should be in brackets not Leucophyta brownii.

15.    p.566 Cheilanthes tenuifolia appears in the appendix however it is now accepted that this is now C. austrotenuifolia (which also appears in the list). C. tenuifolia occurs in northern Australia and Asia (Duncan & Isaac 1986,p.143),  Flora of Australia V.48 Ferns, Gymnosperms & Allied Groups  1998,p.278.

16 p.567 Craspedia glauca= C. variabilis.

17 p.568 Danthonia = Austrodanthonia  (Barker et al.2005).

18 p.569 Eriostemon = Philotheca (Barker et al.2005).

19 p.571-2 some of the Helichrysums have changed such as H.apiculatum  
    =Chrysocephalum apiculatum, H. retusum= Ozothamnus retusus (Barker et 
    al.2005).

20    p.574 Marsilea brownii= M. mutica (Flora of Australia V.48 Ferns, Gymnosperms & Allied Groups  1998,p.167).

21    p.582 Brunonia australis & Epilobium pallidiflorum are present in Belair N.P. ( Is this
     area in the region of this study?).

22    p.583 Marsilea hirsute= M. hirsuta.

23    p. 586 Chloris truncata introduced? See Jessop, Dashorst & James 2006, p.346.