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The dynamics of the boundary between lowland buttongrass moorland and wet-eucalypt forest in southwest Tasmania
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Marsden-Smedley, JB and Brown, MJ and Reid, JB, The dynamics of the boundary between lowland buttongrass moorland and wet-eucalypt forest in southwest Tasmania, Proceedings of the 2007 Buttongrass Moorland Management Workshop, 4 - 6 July 2007, Tasmania, pp. 52-64. ISSN 1441-0680 (2007) [Refereed Conference Paper]
Abstract
The vegetation transition between buttongrass moorland, wet-scrub and wet-eucalypt forest in
southwestern Tasmanian at different times since fire was examined. Sites had been burnt two, nine,
19 and 40 years prior to the study. The wet-scrub ecotone between buttongrass moorland and weteucalypt
low forest was found to be structurally and floristically distinct and formed two zones: an
outer-boundary which was closely related to the buttongrass moorland, and an inner-boundary which
was closely related to the wet-eucalypt forest. With increasing time since fire, buttongrass moorlands
are likely to be transformed structurally into a community which is floristically and structurally similar
to the outer-boundary scrub zone and this transformation will be fastest adjacent to wet-scrub
margins. While current theories of ecological drift are supported by this work, the time periods
required for succession to occur are slower than those proposed in Jackson’s 1968 ecological drift
theory.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Ecology |
Research Field: | Terrestrial ecology |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Fresh, ground and surface water systems and management |
Objective Field: | Assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems |
UTAS Author: | Marsden-Smedley, JB (Dr Jonathan Marsden-Smedley) |
UTAS Author: | Brown, MJ (Dr Michael Brown) |
UTAS Author: | Reid, JB (Professor Jim Reid) |
ID Code: | 75871 |
Year Published: | 2007 |
Deposited By: | Plant Science |
Deposited On: | 2012-02-20 |
Last Modified: | 2012-02-20 |
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