TY  - JOUR
A1  - Coleby, David
T1  - Further observations on ecology of Blandfordia cunninghamii : flowering responses to rainfall and fire, and juvenile growth rates
T2  - Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia
N2  - A population of 700 Blandfordia cunninghamii Lindl. (family Blandfordiaceae) plants in the Blue Mountains, 100 km west of Sydney, New South Wales was monitored over a period of seven years, during which a part of the population area was burnt in a Hazard Reduction Burn (HRB). The survey measured flowering of Blandfordia cunninghamii in both the burnt and unburnt areas. In part of the unburnt area flowering (in December) was strongly correlated with previous September rainfall, but in another unburnt area there was no flowering at all over the seven years. An enhanced flowering response after fire was found in the burnt area and the diminution of this enhanced response in subsequent years was found to be logarithmic (taking into account potential rainfall effects). No recruitment of juvenile plants after fire was observed. 87% of seeds of Blandfordia cunninghamii were found to be germinable. Slow juvenile growth of Blandfordia cunninghamii in the field was measured over seven years. Seed was collected for two major seedbanks, the NSW Plantbank at the Australian Botanic Garden, Mt Annan and the Millennium Seedbank at Kew in the United Kingdom.
KW  - Blandfordia cunninghamii
KW  - Blue Mountains
KW  - Hazard Reduction Burn
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/34221
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-342215
SN  - 2200-405X
VL  - 14
SP  - 55
EP  - 61
ER  -