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Ecological factors:
Soil: |
Black To dark red brown fibrous shallow peat over grey graditional
sandy clay on upper slope near road, to deep black fibrous peat over black
muck on lower slope. |
Aspect: |
South-west, 220 degrees. |
Slope: |
1-5 degrees. |
Rainfall: |
1500mm. |
Vegetation type: |
Buttongrass sedgeland grading to Melaleuca
squamea shrubland and Eucalyptus
nitida open-scrub. |
Geology: |
Precambrian / cambrian siltstone / sandstone. |
Vegetation Structure
- Shrubland/heath vegetation to 1.5m with Leptospermum glaucescens,
Melaleuca squamea, Acacia mucronata, Banksia marginata.
- Groundcover of sedges and rushes predominantly Restio sp. and Gymnoschoenus
sp..
Vegetation Processes
- Vegetation boundaries
- Role of fire regimes, soil fertility and waterlogging
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