Landscape Management Workshop 2005
Profile No.2: "Behind Tents"
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Management objectives
- Shade
- Grazing
- Buffer zone for forest
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Site description / history / treatment:
- Vegetation: Light melaleuca forest with grasses up to 1m high
- Ground Cover: Covered with approx. 3-5cm partly decomposed leaf litter
- Soil Surface: Sandy soil, not compacted, moist
- Last Rainfall: Rainfall on Kachana 2004/2005
- Fire: Active fire exclusion 1996 and 2005
- Biological: Grazed with livestock 4 months prior to sampling
- Mechanical: None
- Chemical: None
Profile description:
- 0-8cm: Almost decomposed litter mixed with black humus, moist, with grass roots; color: dark brown
- 8-18cm: Dark humus layer with grass and tree roots, no undecomposed litter, moist; color: almost black
- 18-28cm: Dark sand, slightly crumbled, moist, lots of tree roots; color: dark brown to black
- 28-50cm:Moist sand, forms chunks, with small roots; color: brown
- 50-60cm:Wet sand, almost no roots; color: light brown
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Soil surface
Profile 2
Laid out profile
Top soil, humus layer
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