The response to environmental flows of a culturally significant flood-dependent species: Centipeda cunninghamii (Asteraceae)
| Autor: | William Higgisson, Tanya M. Doody, Cherie J. Campbell, Fiona Dyer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
geography geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology biology Floodplain Flood myth 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Flooding (psychology) Wetland Aquatic Science Structural basin Oceanography biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Weed Water content Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Centipeda cunninghamii |
| Zdroj: | Marine and Freshwater Research. |
| ISSN: | 1323-1650 |
| Popis: | Centipeda cunninghamii (old man weed) is a culturally significant plant that is widely distributed across the floodplain wetlands of the Murray–Darling Basin. This short communication combines aboriginal and non-aboriginal knowledge of C. cunninghamii to highlight its importance in river–floodplain systems and to add to the flow-ecology knowledge base for this species. Percentage cover data for C. cunninghamii, collected from the floodplains and wetlands of the lower Lachlan River system from 2014 to 2019 were used and compared with data on time-since-flooding and soil moisture to describe this species’ response to flooding and drying. The results of this study show how the occurrence and distribution of C. cunninghamii in the landscape is related to the occurrence and distribution of inundation and that environmental flows can be used to maintain this culturally important plant. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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