Vegetation-soil relations in a highly sodic landscape, Yelarbon, southern Queensland
- Soil and vegetation data were collected from a sodic-scald near Yelarbon in southern Queensland. The surface of the landscape includes relatively light textured pedestals of the A-horizon with slightly alkaline pH and slopes leading down to scalded basement representing the surface of the strongly alkaline B-horizon. The strongest gradient within the floristic patterns was associated with wetland vegetation in drainage lines, but a secondary and orthogonal gradient was related to soil pH, which was probably a function of lower alkalinity on the more stable and weathered A-horizons. There were few significant differences between soil or vegetation characteristics from plot data comparing parts of the landscape with differing historical grazing regimes. Sites included stock routes heavily grazed between the 1920s and 1970s, and subsequently almost ungrazed; and grazed paddocks that have had moderate use throughout this period. There is clear evidence that the area is naturally active in terms of erosion and deposition during flooding regardless of grazing.
Author: | R. J. Fensham, J. Silcock, A. Biggs |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-293628 |
ISSN: | 2200-405X |
ISSN: | 0727-9620 |
Parent Title (English): | Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia |
Publisher: | Mount Annan Botanic Garden, The Administration Officer |
Place of publication: | Mount Annan, NSW |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2013/06/24 |
Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2013/06/24 |
Volume: | 10 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 12 |
First Page: | 273 |
Last Page: | 284 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 34713596X |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 58 Pflanzen (Botanik) / 580 Pflanzen (Botanik) |
Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Cunninghamia : A Journal of Plant Ecology for Eastern Australia / Cunninghamia : A Journal of Plant Ecology for Eastern Australia, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2007) |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-296694 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |