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An experiment designed to determine the single and interactive effects of fire and sheep
grazing was established at four sites with distinct vegetation types. There were significant
interactive effects of fire and sheep grazing on vegetation attributes at all sites. An analysis
of published and new data indicated that there were several vascular plant species that
appeared dependent on sheep grazing for their persistence in the present landscape, while
there were others that were intolerant of this disturbance but required other types of disturbance,
such as mowing. However, most native species appeared to survive in a wide variety
of disturbance regimes short of ploughing and fertilization. The implications of these results
are that a variety of disturbance regimes is necessary to maintain biological diversity in this
environment, and that the naturalness of the regime is not necessarily relevant to its use for
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interactive effects of fire and sheep grazing on vegetation attributes at all sites. An analysis
of published and new data indicated that there were several vascular plant species that
appeared dependent on sheep grazing for their persistence in the present landscape, while
there were others that were intolerant of this disturbance but required other types of disturbance,
such as mowing. However, most native species appeared to survive in a wide variety
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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">The positive and negative conservation impacts of sheep grazing and other disturbances on the vascular plant species and vegetation of lowland subhumid Tasmania</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Kirkpatrick, J.B.</span> and <span class="person_name">Gilfedder, L.</span> and <span class="person_name">Bridle, K.</span> and <span class="person_name">Zacharek, A.</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>The positive and negative conservation impacts of sheep grazing and other disturbances on the vascular plant species and vegetation of lowland subhumid Tasmania.</xhtml:em> Ecological Management and Restoration, 6 . pp. 51-60. ISSN 1442-7001</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2269/1/Thepositiveandnegative.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2269/1/Thepositiveandnegative.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />245Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input accept-charset="utf-8" value="2892" name="docid" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-8903.2005.00219.x">http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-8903.2005.00219.x</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">An important conservation question for grazed areas of lowland subhumid
Tasmania is ‘what effects do different, practical disturbance regimes have on native vegetation?’
An experiment designed to determine the single and interactive effects of fire and sheep
grazing was established at four sites with distinct vegetation types. There were significant
interactive effects of fire and sheep grazing on vegetation attributes at all sites. An analysis
of published and new data indicated that there were several vascular plant species that
appeared dependent on sheep grazing for their persistence in the present landscape, while
there were others that were intolerant of this disturbance but required other types of disturbance,
such as mowing. However, most native species appeared to survive in a wide variety
of disturbance regimes short of ploughing and fertilization. The implications of these results
are that a variety of disturbance regimes is necessary to maintain biological diversity in this
environment, and that the naturalness of the regime is not necessarily relevant to its use for
conservation.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">fertilization, fire, grazing regimes, mowing, native vegetation, sheep grazing, Tasmania,
threatened species.</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/270799.html">270000 Biological Sciences > 270700 Ecology and Evolution > 270799 Ecology and Evolution not elsewhere classified</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/270708.html">270000 Biological Sciences > 270700 Ecology and Evolution > 270708 Conservation and Biodiversity</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2269</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Professor J.B. Kirkpatrick</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">22 Oct 2007 09:09</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2269;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2269">item control page</a></p>
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