What is Palusplain?
What is Palusplain?
The Palusplain is a seasonally waterlogged, flat wetland typical of the duplex and sandy soils found on the Pinjarra Plain to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain (Semeniuk, cited in Hill et al. 1996).
What is a Sumpland?
The hydrological regime of a wetland is the pattern of change in water availability on an annual basis. For example, the water regime of a sumpland (or swamp) involves seasonal inundation of the wetland during winter and seasonal drying of the wetland over summer.
What is the culture of Perth?
A lot of Perth’s cultural offerings revolve around the rich Aboriginal culture of the area. But there’s also a lot of contemporary art knocking about. There are many small galleries and studios that you can wonder on into to admire the work and even to have a chat with the artist themselves.
How is WA Museum Boola Bardip significant to WA?
Direct from the British Museum the exhibition includes 180 remarkable objects ranging in age from the sixth to first centuries BCE. The WA Museum Boola Bardip wins a number of major awards for architecture, building, content fit out, exhibition design, research and engagement.
What is a wetland Australia?
The term ‘wetlands’ encompasses a vast range of water based areas including swamps, marshes, billabongs, lakes, salt marshes, mudflats, mangroves, coral reefs, fens and peatlands. Wetlands are an important part of the Australian landscape.
What are the main cultures represented in Perth?
Main religious groups in Western Australia, 2001–2011
| Main religious group | Number 2001 | Per cent (of WA population) 2001 |
|---|---|---|
| Christianity | 1156272 | 63.2 |
| Buddhism | 29963 | 1.6 |
| Islam | 19460 | 1.1 |
| Hinduism | 3640 | 0.2 |
Where are people in Perth from?
The influx of residents into the growing city means that only 59.6% of people living in Perth were born in Australia, compared to a national average of 69.8%. Almost one in ten (9.5% to be exact) of Perth residents were born in England, all the way across the world, compared with an Australian average of just 4.2%.
What is considered as wetland?
Specifically, wetlands are characterized as having a water table that stands at or near the land surface for a long enough period each year to support aquatic plants. A more concise definition is a community composed of hydric soil and hydrophytes.