| Autor: |
Morgan, John W., Shackleton, Michael, Walker, Zac C., Gooden, Ben |
| Zdroj: |
Australian Journal of Botany; 2024, Vol. 72 Issue 2, p1-7, 7p |
| Abstrakt: |
The nature of Australia's high mountains is changing. Recent, repeated landscape-scale fires have burnt much of the subalpine forests dominated by snow gum (Eucalyptus pauciflora). Long- unburnt snow gum forests are important for ecosystem services, have socio-cultural benefits, and conservation values, but they are now exceedingly rare, comprising <1% of snow gum forests in the Victorian Alps.We identify where long-unburnt snow gum stands persist in the Victorian Alps and outline why management intervention is necessary to protect unburnt refuges and, more broadly, to allow mature/adult stands (such as occur on the Baw Baw Plateau) to develop into future old forests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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