ARCUE is an initiative of the School of Botany, and a division of the Melbourne Botanical Garden. It aims to contribute to understanding of urban ecology through:development of models and quantitative assessment tools for managing biodiversity in urban and suburban environments investigating remnant grassland, heathland and Red Gum remnants, and altered landscape patterns and processesinvestigating animal distribution and food resource availability in Melbourne providing insights into aspects of conservation such as the role of roadsides as habitat, revegetation, spread of non-indigenous plants.