Factsheet
Biodiversity at the university
Updated on 25 November 2022
The steps we have taken towards understanding and enriching the biodiversity of our campus.
Allotments
The University of Dundee has community allotments at the botanic gardens and on campus where students and staff (or anyone who's interested) can get together to grow vegetables! It's a great opportunity to chat, exercise, and spend some healthy time outdoors. We meet every few weeks, and would love to have you whether you're a seasoned gardener, or have never set foot in a garden before!
The harvested food is then shared between the volunteers, and donated to a number of local charities, including the Discovery Food Project.
Contact Trudy Cunningham if you would like to know more about the allotments on campus, or Kevin Frediani for the allotments at the Botanic Gardens.
To help increase campus biodiversity we sowed a woodland shade mix of British native plants under the trees of Smalls Wynd. The sowing was done in 2009 and the area is gradually improving with age.
Species sown
- Wild Garlic
- Giant Bellflower
- Enchanters
- Nightshade
- Foxglove
- Herb Bennet
- Bluebell
- Common St Johns Wort
- Slender St Johns Wort
- Ragged Robin
- Woodrush
- Primrose
- Red Champion
- Hedge Woundwort
- Upright Hedge Parsley
- Bush Vetch
A further area was sown behind 1 Airlie place where we sowed a hedgerow meadow mix of British native plants.
Species sown
- Common Knapweed
- Foxglove
- St Johns Wort Field
- Scabious
- Ox-eye Daisy
- Ragged Robin
- Primrose
- Red Champion
- Hedge Woundwort
- Upright Hedge Parsley
- Bush Vetch
Biodiversity refers to the number of different types of plants and animals found in a given area.
Financial assistance for this project was given by Tayside Biodiversity Action Fund and the work carried out by gardeners from the Botanic Gardens and Grounds.
You can download the reports created from conducting our biodiversity studies, first, in 2001 with the aim of recording the biodiversity of the campus grounds to gauge the significance of wildlife; and next in 2010 and 2013 with the intent to document any changes that have taken place in the time since.
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