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This investigation is about the Iramoo Grassland which is a grassland ecosystem. It is situated in St Albans. This map below show where the Iramoo Grassland is: 
 * Food Webs and Chains in Ecosystem around the Maribyrnong **
 * ** Species ** ||  ** Name **  ||  ** Scientific Name **  ||
 * ** Grasses ** || Grassland || // Themeda // ||
 * || Kangaroo Grass || // Themeda triandra // ||
 * || Spear Grass || // Stipa // ||
 * || Wallaby Grasses || // Danthonia // ||
 * || Windmill Grass || // Chloris truncata // ||
 * || Tussock Grasses || // Poa // ||
 * || Plume Grass || // Dichelachne // ||
 * ** Daisies ** || Daisies || // Brachyscom // ||
 * ||  || // Leucochrysum // ||
 * ||  || // Pycnosorus // ||
 * ||  || // Chrysocephalum // ||
 * || Lemon Beautyheads  || // Calocephalus citreus // ||
 * || Showy Podolepis  || // Podolepis jaceoides // ||
 * || Billy Buttons  || // Craspedia // ||
 * || Everlastings  || // Helichrysum // ||
 * ** Lilies ** || Bulbine Lily || // Bulbine bulbosa // ||
 * || Flax Lily || // Dianella // ||
 * || Chocolate Lily || // Arthropodium strictum // ||
 * || Blue Grass Lily || // Caesia calliantha // ||
 * ** Others ** || Blue Devils || // Eryngium ovinum // ||
 * || Bluebells || // Wahlenbergia // ||
 * || Geranium || // Geranium // ||
 * || Pink Bindweed || // Convulvulus erubescens // ||
 * || Feather Heads || // Ptilotus // ||
 * || Rice Flowers || // Pimelea // ||
 * || Native Flax || // Linum marginale // ||
 * || Mat Rush || // Lomandra // ||
 * || Sedges || // Carex // ||

Some significant species of the Natural Temperate Grassland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain: ** Food Chain: ** 1. SSun → Plants → Crickets → Frilled lizard  2. SSun → Plants → Crickets → Magpie  3. SSun → Plants → Termites → Magpie  4. SSun → Plants → Termites → Magpie → Quoll  5. SSun → Plants → Termites → Magpie →Cat  6. SSun → Plants → Termites → Magpie → Fox  7. SSun → Plants → Termites → Frog → Bird  8. SSun → Plants → Rats → Snake  9. SSun → Plants → Golden sun moth → Magpie  10. Sun → Plants → Grasshoper → Toad → Snake **Food Web:**
 * ** Species ** ||  ** Name **  ||  ** Scientific Name **  ||  ** Prey **  ||  ** Predator **  ||
 * Mammals || southern brown bandicoot || Isoodon obesulus obesulus ||  worms, insects, larvae  ||   ||
 * || The Long-haired Rat || Rattus villosissimus ||  ||   ||
 * || eastern barred bandicoot || Perameles gunnii || earthworms, vegetables, crickets, beetles, bulbs and fruit  ||   ||
 * || Dunnart ||  ||   ||   ||
 * || Foxes ||  ||  birds, small mammals, lizards and insects and any animals they find dead  ||   ||
 * || Cat ||  ||^   ||   ||   ||
 * || Quoll || Dasyurus || Bandicoot, Dunnart and plants  ||   ||
 * Birds || plains-wanderer || Pedionomus torquatus ||  wide range of seeds, insects and spiders  ||  Birds of prey and foxes  ||
 * || Blue-faced honeyeater || Entomyzon cyanotis || Nectar and fruit  ||   ||
 * || Kookaburra || Dacelo Novaeguineae || Reptiles, smaller birds and mammals  ||  Birds of prey  ||
 * || Magpie || Pica pica || Insects  ||  various species of monitor lizard and the Barking Owl  ||
 * Reptiles || striped legless lizard || Delma impar ||  Black field crickets, caterpillars, cockroaches and spiders  ||  Snakes, birds of prey, cats and foxes  ||
 * || Pygmy Blue-tongued Lizard || Tiliqua adelaidensis || ants, cockroaches, beetle, cricket and spider  ||   ||
 * || Frill-necked lizard || Chlamydosaurus kingi || Insects and mice  ||   ||
 * || corangamite water skink || Eulamprus tympanum marnieae || the fruit of the Tree Violet  ||   ||
 * || grassland earless dragon || Tympanocryptis pinguicolla || Grass  ||  Foxes and cats  ||
 * Amphibians || southern bell frog, growling grass frog, warty bell frog, green and golden frog || Litoria raniformis ||  beetles, termites, cockroaches, moths, butterflies, insect larvae, lizards, snakes and small fish  ||  snakes, lizards, birds, and various small animals like hedgehogs  ||
 * Insects || golden sun moth || Synemon plana ||  Wallaby Grass  ||  Magpie  ||
 * || Termites || Isoptera || Fallen trees, fry grass and leaves  ||  Birds, ants, spiders, lizards, and dragonflies  ||
 * || Cricket ||  ||  Grasses  ||  Spiders, some wasps, ground beetles, birds, small rodents and lizards  ||
 * || Spider || Araneae || Insects  ||  Other spiders and lizard  ||
 * || Beetle || Coleoptera || Grasses  ||  Southern Brown Bandicoot, Echidna, Eastern Barred Bandicoot, Plains wanderer, Kookaburra, Magpie, Striped legless lizard, Pygmy Blue tongued lizard, Frilled-necked lizard, Frog  ||
 * || Worm ||  ||  Grasses  ||^   ||   ||
 * || Fly ||  ||  Various  ||^   ||   ||

The Past of Iramoo Grassland:

__**The Present of Iramoo Grassland:**__ 1) __ TThe Producers __ : Plants and grasses   2) __ TThe Fist consumers __ : Blue-faced honeyeater, Corangamite water skink, Termites, Golden sun moth, Cricket, Beetle, Worm, Fly 3) __ TThe Second consumers __ : Southern brown bandicoot, Eastern barred bandicoot, Plains-wanderer, Kookaburra, Magpie, Striped legless lizard, Pygmy Blue-tongued lizard, Frill-necked lizard, Grassland earless dragon, Frog, Spider   4) __ TThe Third consumers __ : Snake, Fox, Cat, Quoll 5) __ HHerbivores __ : Blue-faced honeyeater, Corangamite water skink, Termites, Golden sun moth, Cricket, Grassland earless dragon, Beetle, Worm, Fly   6) __ CCarnivores __ : Southern brown bandicoot, Kookaburra, Magpie, Striped legless lizard, Pygmy Blue-tongued lizard, Frill-necked lizard, Fox, Cat, Quoll 7) __ OOmnivores __ : Rat, Plains wanderer, Eastern barred bandicoot, Frog   8) 1 __ 1st Prey __ : Blue-faced honeyeater, Corangamite water skink, Termites, Golden sun moth, Cricket, Beetle, Worm, Fly 9) __ 11st Predator or 2nd Prey __ : Southern brown bandicoot, Eastern barred bandicoot, Plains-wanderer, Kookaburra, Magpie, Striped legless lizard, Pygmy Blue-tongued lizard, Frill-necked lizard, Grassland earless dragon, Frog, Spider  10) __ 2nd Predator __ : Snake, Fox, Cat, Quoll 11) __ Organisms competing for the same food __ :   a) // Compete for Insects // : Southern Brown Bandicoot, Echidna, Eastern Barred Bandicoot, Plains wanderer, Kookaburra, Magpie, Striped legless lizard, Pygmy Blue tongued lizard, Frilled-necked lizard, Frog b) // Compete for Grass // : Blue-faced honeyeater, Corangamite water skink, Termites, Golden sun moth, Cricket, Grassland earless dragon   c) // Compete for Meat // : Snake, Fox, Cat, Quoll 12) IIf the number of first –order consumers:   a) // Increases // : There will not be enough food for them. b) // Decreases // : There will not be enough food for its predator.   13) IIf the second-order consumers became extinct, there will be no food for the third-consumers, lots of first-order consumers and not enough producers. 14) D __ ecomposer __ : Earthworms, Mushrooms, Bacteria, Fungi, Maggots   15) IIf the number of snake: a) // Increase // : There will not be enough food for Fox, Cat and Quoll   b) // Decrease // : There will more food for them 16) __ IIntroduced species __ : An introduced is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.   17) The introduced species in the grassland ecosystem are: Fox, Frog and Cat  18) Biological control: Biological control of pests in  agriculture is a method of controlling pest that relies on predation, parasitism, herbivory, or other natural mechanisms.  Wednesday, 15th September 2010 To whom it may concern, I am writing in concern about the damage caused by introduced species at the Iramoo Grassland in St Albans. The introduced species are affecting the environment, threatening many rare plants and animal species. I believed that it is important to preserve the ecosystem at the Iramoo Grassland because native grasslands are unique and rare. As you can see, Iramoo Grassland is such a beautiful ecosystem. Grasslands are not just composed of grasses. They are a rich community of plants with a wide variety of forms. The grass tussocks usually provide the tallest plants in an open grassland but between them grow many wildflowers and other small plants. Typical grassland families include daisies, peas, lilies, sedges and orchids. Spring and early summer is the time to look for the wildflowers, and the grasses are attractive, both in flower and in seed, from spring to autumn. Grasslands are also full of life, with many animals that rely upon the abundant resources of grasslands to provide them with food, shelter and a place to reproduce. Grasslands have deep soils that are very nutrient rich because of the large amount of plant tissue (biomass) that dies off and is added to the soil through decomposition every year. But the Iramoo Grassland will lose its beauty if some native plants and animal species become extinct. The example is the Striped Legless Lizard. It is assumed that a range of native predators including snakes, other lizards, raptors, magpies and other predatory birds, and possibly dunnarts, will prey on Striped Legless Lizards, but the extent of this predation is unknown. Introduced predators may be more of a concern, as urban development surrounds many Striped Legless Lizard populations. Anecdotal evidence suggests that foxes may prey upon the species, and in urban areas cats may also be a threat to populations. The introduced species at Iramoo grassland are Foxes, Frogs and Cats. By somehow, those animals were brought here by humans. They begin to affect the environments, animals and plants. There are 3 ways the Government can reduce the impact on Iramoo Grassland ecosystem: 1) Non – Lethal · Plant more native plants. · Put bells on cats or dogs so when they come near native animals, they can hear the bell ringing and escape. · Fertility control 2) Lethal: · Trapping the introduced species and taking them to the pound. Those solutions can work and are good for saving our remnant grasslands. There is only 0.01% of native grasslands left in Victoria. Iramoo Grassland is special grasslands. I politely request that you consider my solution. Sincerely, Ngan Nguyen

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