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Short Note On the apparent anomaly between observed and predicted percentages of vegetation types in south‐west Tasmania
Author(s) -
BROWN M. J.,
PODGER F.
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.tb01594.x
Subject(s) - anomaly (physics) , vegetation (pathology) , rainforest , frequency distribution , physical geography , geography , climatology , geology , environmental science , mathematics , statistics , ecology , biology , physics , medicine , pathology , condensed matter physics
There is an anomaly apparent between the estimated percentage of area of rainforest in south‐west Tasmania and the amount predicted by a Markovian model based on fire frequency. The anomaly results from a misinterpretation of the original reference. The predicted percentages of vegetation types are in broad accord with present day distributions, and variations can be explained by relatively minor shifts of fire frequency estimates.