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A transect study of the Eucalyptus forests and woodlands of a dissected sandstone and laterite plateau near Darwin, Northern Territory
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posted on 2023-05-17, 05:55 authored by James KirkpatrickJames Kirkpatrick, David BowmanDavid Bowman, Wilson, BA, Dickinson, KJMTabletop Mountain in the Northern Territory is a sandstone plateau topped in part by a residual laterite soil. The vegetation of the plateau was mapped and transects placed to cover the mapping units in which eucalypts were dominant or shared dominance. A polythetic divisive classification of the transect floristic data was largely congruent with the mapping units, which also differentiated the dominants. Topography and soils have an apparently strong influence on the nature of the vegetation through their influence on the periodicity and intensity of drought and Waterlogging. However, differences in soil fertility and understorey flammability are postulated to be important in discriminating several of the mapped vegetation types. The flora of Tabletop more closely resembles that of the Alligator Rivers region than that of the Mitchell Plateau or Weipa. Some of the communities differentiated at Tabletop are related floristically to some of the communities differentiated in the Alligator Rivers region and at Gove.
History
Publication title
Australian Journal of EcologyVolume
12Issue
4Pagination
339-359ISSN
0307-692XDepartment/School
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial SciencesPublisher
Wiley-BlackwellPlace of publication
United KingdomRepository Status
- Restricted