- Title:
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Changes in Understorey Vegetation in Sherbrooke Forest Following Burning or Slashing
- Date:
- January 1981
- Organisations
- DSE
- Authors:
- R. Rawson & B. Rees
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Location:
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Victoria,
VIC, Australia
Overview
In 1968 a study was established, within the tall-open forest of Sherbrooke Forest, to examine the separate effects of low intensity burning and slashing of understorey vegetation on the cover of Tetrarrhena juncea (forest wiregrass). The results from measurements in five years, up to and including 1980, show that low intensity burning has had a significant long-term effect and reduced the cover of T. juncea. Slashing proved to be ineffective. Burning has created a more diverse understorey vegetation. The major reason for the increased diversity appears to be a more even distribution of the total amount of vegetation between species.
