Landscape Management Workshop 2005
Profile No.6: "Mound Spring"
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Management objectives:
- High level of succession
- High biodiversity
- Minimum management inputs
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Site description / history / treatment:
- Vegetation: "Rainforest" with melaleuca, pandanus, grevillea, banksia; trees except melaleuca are covered with vines
- Ground Cover: Dense cover of vines, one species dominating, leaf litter is completely covered
- Soil Surface: Humus with litter, not compacted, moist
- Last Rainfall: Rainfall on Kachana 2004/2005
- Fire: Active fire exclusion 1996 and 2005
- Biological: Medium density stocking for 5 days 4 months prior to sampling
- Mechanical: None
- Chemical: None
- Whit in 5m distance from profile 5
Profile description:
- 0-2cm: Partly decomposed litter, high insect activity, dense vine roots
- 2-28cm: Thick wet humus layer, lots of roots, ongoing decomposition; color: black
- 28-60cm: Peat layer with permanent ground water influence, anoxic conditions, no living roots,
decomposition slowed down, undecomposed dead organic components; color: brown to black
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Soil surface
Profile 6
Laid out profile
Close-up peat layer
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