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Ecological factors:
Soil: |
Shallow fibrous peat over shallow olive brown, stony clay loam. |
Aspect: |
North-north-east, 20 degrees. |
Slope: |
< 5 degrees. |
Rainfall: |
2600mm. |
Vegetation type: |
Alpine herbfield / microshrubbery. |
Geology: |
Dolerite. |
Vegetation Structure
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less than 0.1m high, a mat of
continuous cover except for rock outcrops.
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main species Gymnosperms, but
generally a very diverse assemblage of species with >15 spp in a 0.5m x
0.5m quadrat, many epacrids.
Vegetation Processes
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