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Project summary:
The two parts to this study examining the response of woody and herbaceous species to cable and ground-based logging are: A chronosequence analysis of the response of woody and herbaceous species to cable and ground-based logging in wet forest in southern and central Tasmania. A long term monitoring study using permanent quadrats examining the impacts of cable logging on woody and herbaceous species in wet forests in the upper Florentine Valley of central Tasmania; and the impacts of cable and ground-based logging on woody and herbaceous species in dry forest at Wielangta in eastern Tasmania.The experimental design incorporates a regression analysis approach of the vegetation variables of interest (such as floristic composition and richness) against stand age. In the Florentine Valley, stand age was categorised as: 5-10, 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41+ years and mature forest, with approximately three stands in each category. The surveyed stands encompassed a range of ages within the category (eg. 5, 7 and 10). This was achieved for all categories, except in the 41+ year old category where only two stands per forest type could be surveyed, because of the relative scarcity of silvicultural regrowth of this age. In the Arve Valley chronosequence only the 5-10, 11-20, 21-30 years and mature forest categories were surveyed due to the absence of environmentally similar regrowth aged 30+ years.
Methodology: Not available.
Datasets: None available.
Publications: Peacock, R. (2009). A private native forestry metric to assess forest structural change. RIRDC Report 09/019: 35 pp. Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra.
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