Establishment and Growth of Planted Seedlings After Restoration Treatments
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Descripción
Eucalyptus saligna plantations with the understorey largely invaded by the introduced pasture Paspalum wettsteinii were included in the expansion of Bongil Bongil National Park (BBNP), NSW. In the 1950s, most of this area was cleared for cattle or dairy pasture, and in 1971 the remainder was cleared for eucalypt plantations. Until its dedication in 1999, this area was used for dairy farming and forestry. Natural regeneration of native pioneer, secondary or mature forest species is scarce in most of the plantations which appear to be in an arrested state of plant succession. The Park's Plan of Management states that these plantations will be restored using managed disturbance and that experiment was implemented to determine appropriate techniques for initiating succession towards endemic communities, such as the establishment of pioneer and secondary planted seedlings after restoration treatments. This paper reports the design, implementation, outcomes and recommendations after canopy reduction, burning, chisel plough, herbicide and fencing treatments. Benjamín Villa-Castillo. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), CIRPAC, C.E. Uruapan. México. Nick Reid and Jason Cummings. Ecosystem Management, University of New England (UNE), Armidale. Australia.