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Transplants along the vegetation gradient on central Australian sandridges
Author(s) -
BUCKLEY R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1442-9993
pISSN - 0307-692X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1982.tb01318.x
Subject(s) - vegetation (pathology) , floristics , range (aeronautics) , plant species , geology , ecology , geography , physical geography , biology , paleontology , species richness , medicine , materials science , pathology , composite material
Abstract To assess the importance of static catenary factors in controlling the floristic gradient on central Australian sandridges, plant species characteristic of particular topographic zones were transplanted to zones outside their normal topographic range. Both upper‐slope species transplanted downslope, and lower‐slope species transplanted upslope suffered higher mortality than control plants transplanted within the same topographic zone.