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Soils and vegetation of central Australian sandridges II. Sandridge vegetation in the Uluru National Park Area, Northern Territory, Australia
Author(s) -
BUCKLEY R.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1442-9993
pISSN - 0307-692X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1981.tb01494.x
Subject(s) - transect , disjunct , vegetation (pathology) , belt transect , geography , national park , swale , ecology , floristics , assemblage (archaeology) , physical geography , archaeology , species richness , population , biology , medicine , demography , pathology , stormwater , sociology , surface runoff
Belt transects taken over the main sandridges in Uluru National Park, Northern Territory, show a consistent fioristic zonation from swale to dunecrest. On the larger ridges five or six zones are distinguishable and the crest assemblage is largely disjunct; on the lower dunes the pattern is truncated. The Uluru dunefields are representative of the Northern Territory and central Western Australia, though the floristic assemblage differs regionally.