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JournalISSN: 0004-9158

Australian Forestry 

Taylor & Francis
About: Australian Forestry is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Pinus radiata & Forest management. It has an ISSN identifier of 0004-9158. Over the lifetime, 1980 publications have been published receiving 24729 citations.


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TL;DR: Fire is a natural environmental variable over most of Australia that tends to be self propagating and occurs for extremely limited periods in any one locality; may have devastating effects; occurs over a wide range of environments and plant communities.
Abstract: SUMMARY Fire is a natural environmental variable over most of Australia. It is a unique environmental variable in that it: tends to be self propagating; occurs for extremely limited periods in any one locality; may have devastating effects; occurs over a wide range of environments and plant communities. In many ecosystems fire is a normal environmental variable. Its immediate effects on vegetation depend on fire intensity but longer-term effects depend also on fire frequency and season of occurrence. Using these three variables, various fire regimes may be defined. Species may be adapted to these fire regimes but not to fire per se. Interaction between fire and an adaptive trait may facilitate survival or reproduction of a species but this effect alone does not guarantee that the species is adapted to a certain fire regime—this depends on many characteristics of the life cycle. Much of the relevant Australian literature is concerned with adaptive traits while relatively little considers adaptations of spe...

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TL;DR: Evidence is presented that second rotation planted stands of Pinus radiata D. Don in South Australia have a lower productivity than first rotation crops on the same sites.
Abstract: SUMMARY Evidence is presented that second rotation planted stands of Pinus radiata D. Don in South Australia have a lower productivity than first rotation crops on the same sites. After clear felling of unthinned first rotation stands a significant loss of productivity in replanted stands is shown by the remeasurement of a number of permanent sample plots, and also by comparisons of site quality (S.Q.) assessments of first and second rotation crops. The picture with naturally regenerated stands is not clear. One case indicates that there has been no loss of productivity, while two plots suggest that a real loss has occurred. A considerable amount of fundamental and empirical research work has been initiated in South Australia to investigate the causes of this important problem.

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TL;DR: The establishment of provenance seedling seed orchards of three spotted gums and cadaga (all species of Corymbia ex Eucalyptus) is described, revealing many hybrid families have significant advantages in growth and tolerance to disease, insects and frost, and can be vegetatively propagated.
Abstract: This paper describes the establishment of provenance seedling seed orchards of three spotted gums and cadaga (all species of Corymbia ex Eucalyptus). It also discusses the limitations of growing the spotted gums as pure species including: lack of mass flowering, susceptibility to a fungal shoot blight and low amenability to vegetative propagation. These limitations, together with observation of putative natural hybrids of the spotted gums with cadaga, and the early promise of manipulated hybrids, led to an intensive breeding and testing program. Many hybrid families have significant advantages in growth and tolerance to disease, insects and frost, and can be vegetatively propagated. They also exhibit broad environmental plasticity, allowing the best varieties to be planted across a wider range of sites than the spotted gums, resulting in more land being suitable for plantation development.

102 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
20238
202224
202124
202027
201937
201823