Recent ecological observations on growth rates and seed production in "Isopogon prostratus" (Proteaceae), a little-known prostrate shrub from south-eastern NSW and Victoria
- Observations on the longevity and ecology of Isopogon prostratus McGill. (Proteaceae) based on 1985 and 2009 field measures on Newnes Plateau, near Lithgow, and a seed germination trial are provided. Its survival strategy appears to be that of a stress-tolerator with long-term persistence at (relatively few) suitable sites, and it remains a relatively rare plant. It is conjectured that it is likely to have been a species of greater abundance in the drier, colder and generally treeless conditions of the Newnes Plateau 15–20 000 years ago, but, as conditions became warmer and wetter it has become reduced to isolated populations as taller shrubs outcompeted it for light.
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| Author: | Doug Benson, Lotte von Richter |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-293211 |
| 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): | 2013/04/12 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/04/12 |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| First Page: | 283 |
| Last Page: | 286 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 336801734 |
| 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 11, Issue 3 (2010) |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-296646 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
