Floristic description and environmental relationships of Sphagnum communities in NSW and the ACT and their conservation management

  • Investigations were conducted at 49 sites in New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) to map the location and extent of Sphagnum peatland communities, some of which no longer contained Sphagnum moss. Nine floristic groups were identified for the Sphagnum peatlands based on data from 39 of the surveyed sites. The data were ordinated by hybrid multi-dimensional scaling. The strongest floristic gradients corresponded to changes in altitude, climate and geology and were strongly related to the geographic distribution of sites. While some groups are on land reserved for conservation, others occur on forestry and private land tenures. Reservation has not protected some sites from threatening processes, with most Sphagnum peatland communities surveyed being moss remnants or peatlands in poor condition with invading weed species. The main factors that have led to this degradation are fire, grazing, clearing, feral animals (pigs and brumbies), forestry operations and peat mining.

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Author:Jennie Whinam, N. Chilcott
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-368348
ISSN:0727-9620
Parent Title (English):Cunninghamia : a journal of plant ecology for eastern Australia
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2015/01/30
Year of first Publication:2002
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2015/01/30
Volume:7
Issue:3
Page Number:38
First Page:463
Last Page:500
HeBIS-PPN:367933802
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 7, Issue 3 (2002)
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-365264
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht