- Title
- Fire and hollow formation in box-ironbark eucalypts of the Warby Range State Park
- Creator
- Adkins, Matthew; Westbrooke, Martin; Florentine, Singarayer; McDonald, Simon
- Date
- 2005
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69244
- Identifier
- vital:2202
- Identifier
- ISSN:0042-5184
- Abstract
- Hollows are an important, but rare, resource for several native vertebrate species in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria. A study assessed the external features of trees from burnt and unburnt areas of forest to determine the influence of fire on hollow formation in these forests. Significantly greater proportions of trees in burnt areas has scars than trees in unburnt areas. Fire had less influence on the number of small, medium, large and very large dead branches/branch stubs than tree diameter. Similarly, tree size rather than fire was a major determinant in the occurrence of hollows. The greater number of scars in burnt trees might eventually lead to a difference in hollow numbers between burnt and unburnt trees (A).
- Relation
- Victorian Naturalist Vol. 122, no. 1 (2005), p. 47-56
- Rights
- Copyright Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Eucalyptus; Native forests; Native species; Forest trees; Forest fires; Fire effects; Diameter; Tree holes; Hollows; Temperate zones
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