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Topic Grassland ecosystems
Question What are the main characteristics of grassland ecosystems?
Expert Neville Walsh
Neville Walsh is Senior Conservation Botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. His work involves both plant identification and classification, and, conservation. Neville's roles include naming and describing new plant species and investigating how rare species can be conserved.
It’s too easy to say there’s lots of grass there – there is of course, but it’s not that simple. There are no trees, and generally, no large shrubs. A well-managed grassland will have lots of gaps between the grass tussocks and in these gaps live a large range of non-grass plants – it’s often these non-grass plants that give the character to grasslands and when they flower in spring, they can make our grasslands some of the most beautiful wildflower displays in the state.
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