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  • Impact of wildfire on interdune ecology and sediments: An example from the Simpson Desert, Australia

    Author(s)
    Strong, CL
    Bullard, JE
    Dubois, C
    McTainsh, GH
    Baddock, MC
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McTainsh, Grant H.
    Strong, Craig
    Baddock, Matthew
    Dubois, Chloe
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    The stability of many sand dunes and their interdunes is dependent on vegetation and surface crust cover. When this cover is removed, the sand can be activated and fine sediments deflated making the dunefields into sources of dust. This paper reports the impact of devegetation by wildfire on an interdune in the Simpson Desert, Australia. The fire occurred in 2001 and six years after the event pronounced differences between a pair of burnt and unburnt sites was clearly discernible. The variables examined included vegetation assemblage, cyanobacteria abundance and sediment aggregation, particle-size distribution and colour; ...
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    The stability of many sand dunes and their interdunes is dependent on vegetation and surface crust cover. When this cover is removed, the sand can be activated and fine sediments deflated making the dunefields into sources of dust. This paper reports the impact of devegetation by wildfire on an interdune in the Simpson Desert, Australia. The fire occurred in 2001 and six years after the event pronounced differences between a pair of burnt and unburnt sites was clearly discernible. The variables examined included vegetation assemblage, cyanobacteria abundance and sediment aggregation, particle-size distribution and colour; but whether they apply to all such situations is uncertain. Rate of recovery has been slow and the differences are likely to have been sustained by a combination of negative feedback processes and climate.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Arid Environments
    Volume
    74
    Issue
    11
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.05.032
    Subject
    Earth sciences
    Environmental sciences
    Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified
    Biological sciences
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/37829
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