Disturbance features Qualitative visual Whinam et al. (ACT) Ginini pig impacts & fire impacts assessment of Good (NSW) fire impacts presence/absence Tolsma (Vic) horses & deer, fire impacts Grover (Vic) fire impacts Shannon (Vic) horses Quantitative Robertson (NSW) Modified Landscape Function Analysis assessment Shannon (Vic) Modified Landscape Function Analysis Wild (Vic) 2m belt transect x 5 in each bog quantifying impacts/presence/absence of scats Thiele and Prober, Wild (Vic) Transects and exclosure plots (horses) Hydrology Flow and nutrient Silvester (2009) buffering Whinam, Hope et al. (various) substrate moisture in cores Stream flow, substrate Wild et al. (2010) substrate moisture in cores along gradients relative moisture status to disturbance Substrate characteristics Peat composition Hope et al. (numerous) stratigraphy and coring Significant Fauna Presence/absence of Osborne (various) Corrobee frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) threatened Malone (1985) Baw Baw Frog (Philoria frosti) species/populations Appendix Three: Bog studies included in the meta-analysis of the ‘state’ of bogs across the mainland Australian Alps Alexiou P.N. (1983) Effects of feral pigs (Sus scrofa) on subalpine vegetation at Smokers Gap, A.C.T. Proceedings Ecological Society of Australia 12, 135–142. Ashton, D.H. and Hargreaves, G.R. (1983). Dynamics of subalpine vegetation at Echo Flat, Lake Mountain, Victoria. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 12, 35-60. Carey, A., Evans, M., Hann, P., Lintermans, M., Macdonald, T., Ormay, P., Sharp, S., Shorthouse, D. and Webb, N. (2003) Technical Report 17 Wildfires in the ACT 2003: Report on initial impacts on natural ecosystems. Environment ACT, Canberra.
Disturbance features Qualitative visual assessment of presence/absence Whinam et al. (ACT) Ginini pig impacts & fire impacts Good (NSW) fire impacts Tolsma (Vic) horses & deer, fire impacts Grover (Vic) fire impacts Shannon (Vic) horses Quantitative assessment Robertson (NSW) Modified Landscape Function Analysis Shannon (Vic) Modified Landscape Function Analysis Wild (Vic) 2m belt transect x 5 in each bog quantifying impacts/presence/absence of scats Thiele and Prober, Wild (Vic) Transects and exclosure plots (horses) Hydrology Flow and nutrient buffering Silvester (2009) Stream flow, substrate moisture status Whinam, Hope et al. (various) substrate moisture in cores Wild et al. (2010) substrate moisture in cores along gradients relative to disturbance Substrate characteristics Peat composition Hope et al. (numerous) stratigraphy and coring Significant Fauna Presence/absence of threatened species/populations Osborne (various) Corrobee frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) Malone (1985) Baw Baw Frog (Philoria frosti) Appendix Three: Bog studies included in the meta-analysis of the ‘state’ of bogs across the mainland Australian Alps Alexiou P.N. (1983) Effects of feral pigs (Sus scrofa) on subalpine vegetation at Smokers Gap, A.C.T. Proceedings Ecological Society of Australia 12, 135–142. Ashton, D.H. and Hargreaves, G.R. (1983). Dynamics of subalpine vegetation at Echo Flat, Lake Mountain, Victoria. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 12, 35-60. Carey, A., Evans, M., Hann, P., Lintermans, M., Macdonald, T., Ormay, P., Sharp, S., Shorthouse, D. and Webb, N. (2003) Technical Report 17 Wildfires in the ACT 2003: Report on initial impacts on natural ecosystems. Environment ACT, Canberra.
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