Wikipedia:Peer review/Flora of Australia/archive1

Flora of Australia[edit]

I've been working on this article to complement Fauna of Australia. Since it's the first article of this type on Wikipedia I was hoping for some feedback on scope and things people would expect or like to read about in an article about the flora of a country.--Peta 23:15, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

One thing that jumps out at me is that in the second paragraph of the article is the statement, "The settlement of Australia by Indigenous Australians more than 40,000 years ago, and by Europeans from 1788, has had a significant impact on the flora" -- yet there is little or no explanation what this impact was. How did the earliest Australians alter the landscape of the continent? Obviously, European settlement has had a greater effect, & not all of it good. Even if this is a topic better treated in another article, I'd expect at least a paragraph addressing each of these, with a link to the relevant articles. Once this is dealt with, the other problems -- & strengths -- of this article can be addressed. -- llywrch 05:45, 15 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- It's coverd in the final section of the article - I just haven't finished writing the lead.--Peta 05:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes, it's definitely improved now that I look at it. However, a lot could be said about this matter. For example, there's the matter of introducing rabbits to Australia. I remember the description of a rabbit migration into a rabbit-proof fence in one of Arthur Upfield's mystery novels about Bony; one can't have that many introduced plant-eating animals in an environment without resulting with some measurable degredation. (I hope I'm not beating a dead horse -- or lupine -- by mentioning this.) -- llywrch 01:49, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]