Determining reference conditions for management and restoration of temperate grassy woodlands: relationships among trees, topsoils and understorey flora in little-grazed remnants

By S. Prober, I. Lunt, K. Thiele. 2002

126 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. I. Lunt
2. J. Fischer
3. David B. Lindenmayer
4. S. Prober
5. A. Manning
6. K. Thiele
7. David M. Watson
8. Ross Goldingay

In Forestry

1. S. Prober
2. I. Lunt
3. K. Thiele
4. David B. Lindenmayer
5. J. Fischer
6. David M. Watson

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. I. Lunt
2. David B. Lindenmayer
3. J. Fischer
4. S. Prober
5. K. Thiele
6. A. Manning
7. David M. Watson
8. Ross Goldingay

Citations in the corpus

• Scattered trees are keystone structures – Implications for conservation (2006, background): “Nutrient levels under scattered trees are typically enhanced by litter accumulation, animal dung, the interception of nutrients by trees, and the accumulation of nutrients by tree roots (Wilson, 2002; Dean et al., 1999; Prober et al., 2002).”
• Identifying ecological barriers to restoration in temperate grassy woodlands: soil changes associated with different degradation states (2002, background): “…of other studies and are usually attributed to biological processes associated with trees (e.g. concentration of nutrients through extensive or deep root systems), rather than pre-existing heterogeneity favouring their establishment (Attiwill and Leeper 1987; Hastwell 2001; Prober et al. 2002).”
• A productivity-based explanation for woodland bird declines: poorer soils yield less food (2011, background): “…around productive soils and reliable access to water and progressive conversion of woodlands to pasture and cropland was similarly non-random, preferentially clearing woodland from riparian zones, valley floors and floodplains (Recher and Lim 1990; Robinson and Traill 1996; Prober et al. 2002).”
• Restoration of Themeda australis swards suppresses soil nitrate and enhances ecological resistance to invasion by exotic annuals (2009, background): “…persistence of exotic annuals (Standish et al. 2007), but in our study ecosystem soil nitrate rather than phosphorus is most strongly associated with exotic annual abundances (Prober et al. 2002a, b) and the dominant native grass reduced soil nitrate and exotics but not phosphorus concentrations.”