The ecology of the Bogong High Plains.  II. Fencing experiments in grassland C

Carr, S. G. M.; Turner, J.

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“…Location of sites mentioned in the text terra australis 32 but the January 2003 fires reversed these gains. The few long-term studies of bog recovery trends in Australia have shown that recovery after fires and grazing takes decades (Carr and Turner 1959;Wahren and Walsh 2000). Sphagnum-shrub bog-with-pool complexes are very slow to recover from disturbance (Ashton and Hargreaves 1993;Good 2000;.…”

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

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2010

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“…A similar, grazed catchment adjoining the exclosure was to act as a control. Although measurements were made in a range of plant communities between 1947 and 1957 (Carr and Turner 1959;Wahren et al 1994), no data were collected in the peatland communities. The observations of Carr (1977 pp.…”

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Grazing and fire in two subalpine peatlands

McDougall¹

2007

Aust. J. Bot.

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The floristic composition and structure of peatland vegetation in adjoining subalpine catchments of the Bogong High Plains (north-eastern Victoria) were monitored between 1979 and 2006. Grazing by cattle had been excluded from one catchment since 1946, when it was fenced. Peatland vegetation in both catchments was partially burnt in a wildfire in 2003. Between 1979 and 1999, in the ungrazed peatland, the cover of Sphagnum cristatum Hampe and Baeckea gunniana Schauer increased and the cover of pools decreased, whereas in the grazed peatland the cover of B. gunniana and Epacris paludosa R.Br. decreased and the cover of Empodisma minus (Hook.f.) L.A.S.Johnson & D.F.Cutler increased. The cover of all recorded species decreased following a fire in 2003. Between 2004 and 2006, a significant increase in cover was detected in two of eight species measured in burnt areas.In burnt areas, the number of native species per quadrat increased in the grazed peatland and the numbers of exotic species per quadrat increased in both peatlands over that period. By 2006, the peatlands had largely recovered floristically from the 2003 fires but it is likely to be decades before the cover of S. cristatum and Richea continentis B.L.Burtt. reaches pre-fire levels. Control of several exotic species that established after the fire (especially Salix cinerea L. and Juncus spp.) may be required.

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“…was completed in less than one year, and three quarters was completed in five years or less (data not presented). Amongst the longest studies is that established on the Bogong High Plains by John Turner and Masie Carr of the School of Botany at the University of Melbourne, for which observations have been collected now for around 50 years (see Carr, 1977;Carr and Turner, 1959b;Wahren et al, 1994). Notwithstanding the foresight and determination of Carr and Turner, the lack of replication diminishes the robustness of conclusions from this study.…”

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“…This was mainly due to the series of research reports on studies in NSW published by Costin and co-workers , that were based on replicated treatments. As is well known, the long-term study plots on the Bogong High Plains in Victoria (Carr and Turner, 1959b) were not replicated. Similarly, only four of the fifteen reported models used replicated data.…”

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“…These contrasting results can sometimes be explained but allow claim and counterclaim by interested parties. Available research suggests (Carr and Turner, 1959b;Williams and Ashton, 1988;Wahren et al, 1999) that grazing without regular burning would promote invasion of grasslands by shrubs and change at least the nature of fuel loads. Recent research using a proxy measure based on consumption of woody twigs, suggested fire intensity differed little among recently moderately-grazed and long ungrazed areas of heathland (Williams et al, 2006).…”

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A critical review of the science underpinning fire management in the high altitude ecosystems of south-eastern Australia

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Taranto³

2013

Forest Ecology and Management

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Grazing and fire in two subalpine peatlands

A critical review of the science underpinning fire management in the high altitude ecosystems of south-eastern Australia

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