Ground cover two years after prescribed fire in stringybark open forest at Bagdad Native Forest Reserve, Robe, South Australia
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2013
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Murphy, B.P.
Taylor, C.M.
Heath, M.
Gibbs, J.
Petit, S.
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The South Australian naturalist, 2013; 87(2):85-89
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To develop optimal fire regimes, land managers need to monitor vegetation responses following prescribed burning. We sampled plants <30 cm in height ("ground cover") to compare a site burnt two years previously with an adjacent unburnt site in stringybark open forest. Species richness and density (stem count) were measured in 12 x 1 m2 quadrats at each site. Twelve plant species were found in the burnt habitat compared with 10 in the unburnt and only four plant species were common to both sites. Shannon diversity indices indicated slightly greater diversity at the burnt site when Centrolepis fascicularis was excluded, although moss species were absent.
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Copyright 2013 Field Naturalists' Society of South Australia