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Table 3. Native vegetation formations invaded by N. neesiana outside Australia. Vegetation class Locations Country Major associated spp. Reference Bidenti pilosae-Ageratinetum adenophorae community Teneriffe, Canary Islands Spain Bidens pilosa Ageratina adenophora Myrica faya, Salix canariensis Martín Osorio et al. 2000 (Erica platycodon): Ilici Teneriffe, Canary Islands Spain Martín Osorio et al. 2000 canariensis-Ericeto playcodonis Aeonietum cuneati Teneriffe, Canary Islands Spain Martín Osorio et al. 2000 Periploco-Phoenico canariensis Teneriffe, Canary Islands Spain Phoenix canariensis Martín Osorio et al. 2000 Within Australia, occurrence in disturbed anthropogenic habitats is usual: e.g. North Central Region of Victoria: roadsides, waterways, small neglected semi-urban allotments (Frederick 2002), Sydney region “roadsides, pastures, grassy areas, along creeks and rivers” (Benson and McDougall 2005). In the ACT it occurs under a wide range of conditions “from heavily mown or grazed sites, from damp gullies and depressions out to drier slopes, to sites with low to medium levels of disturbance and in shaded and unshaded locations” (Bruce 2001). Areas in which it is most likely to occur include roadsides, tracks and paths (vehicle, walking, animal), mown areas, waterways and drainage lines (Bruce 2001). It is generally more abundant in grasslands that are small in size (
In Australia the altitudinal range is from near sea level (e.g. in the Altona area near Melbourne) to c. 1200-1400 m at Guyra on the Northern Tablelands of NSW (Gardener et al. 2005). In the Sydney region it is found from 0-600 m (Benson and McDougall 2005). Climate Stipeae are generally classic xeromorphs or mesic, Austrostipa aristiglumis (F.Muell.) S.W.L. Jacobs and J. Everett and Trikeraia being exceptions (Arriaga and Jacobs 2006). In south-eastern South America members of the tribe increase with increasing latitude, being absent in the megathermic zones, a major vegetation component in mesothermic zones and dominant in Patagonia (Perelman et al. 2001). Indeed, increases of c. 15 to 23% in the average relative cover of Stipeae compared to other grass tribes has been measured across the narrow latitudinal range (c. 35-38°) of the Flooding Pampa, in Argentina (Perelman et al. 2001). The distribution of particular Stipeae, including several Nassella species, in this region shows strong latitudinal correlations, with a group including N. hyalina and N. charruana found only in the north, and others found only in the south (Perelman et al. 2001). N. neesiana is unusual in that it has a very wide climatic tolerance. It has invaded areas outside the climatic range it occupies in South America (Gardener 1998). The stronghold of N. neesiana, the pampas region, has warm, often humid summers, mild, usually drier winters with temperatures uncommonly below freezing, annual rainfall of 600-1000 mm, and little drought (Mack 1989). In the pampas, “grass is driven out only where water is very abundant in the soil, as ... along the banks of rivers ... the climate is a perfect grassland-climate, with ... rainfall not more than moderate but well distributed ... humid, moderately warm vegetative season [and] strong winds ... with moderate atmospheric humidity ... hostile indeed to woodland” (Schimper 1903 p. 459). Summer rainfall is prevalent in eastern South America south of 30° including Rio Grande do Sul, eastern Uruguay and Argentina (Schimper 1903). Restricted occurences in southern Brazil, where the grasslands are considered to be relicts of drier, cooler conditions, may be determined by the more subtropical, humid climate (Overbeck and Pfadenhauer 2007). N. neesiana is one of the dominant grasses in La Plata district of Buenos Aires where the climate is warm temperate and humid, with a mean annual temperature of 16.5 ºC and mean annual rainfall of 992 mm (Cabrera 1949). It occurs across the Flooding Pampa of north-eastern Argentina which has annual rainfalls of 850-900 mm, average annual temperatures of 13.8-15.9°C and average minimum temperatures in July of 1.8-6°C (Perelman et al. 2001). It is a major grass in the Tandilia Range of south-east Buenos Aires province where the annual rainfall is about 800 mm and the mean monthly temperatures for the coldest and warmest months are 13 and 23°C (Honaine et al. 2009), and in parts of south-west Buenos Aires Province, where the climate is humid temperate with a mean annual temperature of 14.5ºC and annual average rainfall of 850 mm (Amiotti et al. 2007). It occurs in the littoral areas and lower parts of the La Plata basin where the climate lacks a marked dry season (Schimper 1903). Large tracts of northern Argentina, the base of the Andes and the Provinces of Entre Rios and Corrientes have annual rainfall of 1000-1200 mm (Schimper 2003) and in those areas N. neesiana loses its dominance in grassland to species better adapted to a wetter, more subtropical climate (Soriano et al. 1992). In Uruguay N. neesiana is supposedly “resistant to adverse climates” (Gardener et al. 1996b p. 3, citing Rosengurtt et al. 1970). In the Pampean province of southern Brazil the annual rainfall is in the range of c. 1200-1600 mm and mean annual temperatures are 13-17°C (Overbeck et al. 2007). On the Juan Fernández Islands of Chile it grows in dry or humid areas (Baeza et al. 2007). In continental South America as a whole N. neesiana is found in the 500-1500 mm annual rainfall zones, with some extreme outliers, and its northern distribution is “limited by lack of low winter temperatures necessary for vernalization” (Gardener et al. 1996b), so is restricted to higher altitudes in the tropics. It occurs in southern Chile near Valdiva where the average annual rainfall exceeds 2600 mm and maximum/minimum temperatures are 22.8/11.1 in January and 11.1/5.0ºC in July (Gardener et al. 1996b). Similar seasonal temperatures occur in montane-alpine areas of south-eastern Australia, although few such areas have rainfall exceeding 1600 mm. It occurs in areas of far north-east Argentina near Posadas, where the rainfall was over 1900 mm per annum, with January and July maximum/minimum temperatures of 33.2/21.8ºC and 21.9/11.4ºC (Gardener et al. 1996b). The closest approximations to such a climate in Australia occur in the wet tropics. In western Argentina it occurs at Medoza, where the climate is very dry (223 mm) with January/July maximum/minimum temperatures of 32.0/19.4ºC and 14.7/2.4ºC (Gardener et al. 1996b), similar to some arid areas of inland southern Australia. In arid regions of South America it may only occur where the microclimate is more mesic, e.g. along rivers (Gardener et al. 1996b). In South Africa N. neesiana has been recorded in temperate summer rainfall areas (Wells et al. 1986). The climate parameters of one of its stronghold areas in New Zealand are an annual average rainfall of 650-900 mm, warm summers with frequent droughts and moderate winters, conditions said to be very similar to the climate in its Argentinian range (Bourdôt and Hurrell 1989a). The 900 mm isohyet has been quoted as a limiting factor in north-facing hill slopes in the Hawkes Bay area of New Zealand (Slay 2002) where its potential range was considered to be “northerly facing hill country in low to medium rainfall (700-900 mm)” (Slay 2001 p. 5). In south eastern Australia N. neesiana occurs primarily in areas with 500-800 mm average annual rainfall (Muyt 2001) in a range of climates including the warm wet summer/cold dry winter of the Northern Tablelands of NSW, and hot dry summer/cold wet winter of southern Victoria (Gardener et al. 1999). In the Sydney region it is found in areas with 700-1000 mm mean annual rainfall (Benson and McDougall 2005). N. neesiana appears to be well adapted to seasonal dryness (Bourdôt and Hurrell 1987b) and is drought tolerant (Muyt 2001, McLaren et al. 2002b, Slay 2002c, Storrie and Lowien 2003). Tsvelev (1977 p. 2) thought that the small chromosomes and small pollen grains (general stipoid characters), lemma and palea structure protecting the flowers, a dense clumping habit and the presence of intravaginal shoots (as in N. neesiana) all indicated specialisation for xerophytic climates. Slay (2002a p. 10) thought that the bare ground resulting from drought was “the catalyst for seedling establishment”. Fire Fire is a feature of the campos and pampas grasslands of South America, but as in other areas of the world, the ancient and pre- European fire regimes are poorly understood. Darwin (1845 p. 114) reported that the plains from Bahía Blanca to Buenos Aires were commonly deliberately burnt, “chiefly for improving the pasture”: “it seems necessary to remove the superfluous 49
Page 1 and 2: Literature review: Impact of Chilea
Page 3 and 4: Fire 49 Other disturbances 50 Shade
Page 5 and 6: Conventions and standards Botanical
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Page 15 and 16: As yet there appears to be no evide
Page 17 and 18: experimental manipulation of specie
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Page 21 and 22: Taxonomy and nomenclature Stipeae N
Page 23 and 24: Vernacular names ‘Needlegrass’
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Page 29 and 30: Figure 2. Anatomy of the seed of N.
Page 31 and 32: are the seeds larger/smaller, longe
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Page 35 and 36: Table 2. Modified Feekes Scale for
Page 37 and 38: Argentina, in the provinces of Chac
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Page 41 and 42: 1994). Only 3 of 186 exotic grasses
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Page 45 and 46: populations have been found in the
Page 47: (Honaine et al. 2006). The flechill
Page 51 and 52: Proximity to urban development appe
Page 53 and 54: In the southern Brazilian campos of
Page 55 and 56: arundinacea (Gardener et al. 2005).
Page 57 and 58: al. 2008). Cues for masting may be
Page 59 and 60: Approximately 200 alien grass speci
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Page 75 and 76: Themeda re-establishment McDougall
Page 77 and 78: species (Lawton and Schroder 1977 p
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Page 81 and 82: BIODIVERSITY “Biodiversity ... on
Page 83 and 84: According to Woods (1997 p. 61) “
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Page 93 and 94: GRASSLANDS Grasses: “... the most
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proportion of the flora then presen
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tussock space (Stuwe and Parsons 19
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Like vascular plant diversity, comm
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Opinions differ on the nature and i
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Species Common Name Family Aust ACT
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in shifting the distribution, exten
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of these systems is largely explain
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pasture. The least understood trans
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tend to benefit more from relaxed c
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Bovids crop their food between the
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are therefore less likely to distur
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esult in a “short-term flush” o
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Fire effects on weeds Moore (1993 p
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Table 8. Typical nutrient levels in
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grasses produced sigificantly more
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Fossorial vertebrates are or were o
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(Rosengren 1999). Approximately one
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Table 12. Areal extent and conserva
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Foreman (1997) investigated the eff
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Willis (1964) considered that the f
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Austrostipa-Enneapogon) from around
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Woodlands and New England Grassy Wo
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Thylogale billardierii), Peramelida
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Its original habitat on the mainlan
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Table 17. Endangered reptile specie
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equirement, but unlike plants and v
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e assigned the same biodiversity sc
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Nematodes are mostly minute animals
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found in all mainland states, O. co
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Keyacris scurra, Melbourne (1993) o
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was once widespread in south- easte
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eing sluggish and wingless, and exi
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estoration and, if Australia follow
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close to the plant are able to bury
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Species *Chirothrips mexicanus Craw
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Table A2.1 (continued) Species Life
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Table A2.1 (continued) Species *Het
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Nematodes of grasses and grasslands
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REFERENCES Aceñolaza, F.G. (2004)
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Benson, D. and McDougall, L. (2005)
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Chan, C.W. (1980) Natural grassland
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DNRE (Department of Natural Resourc
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Fuhrer, B. (1993) A Field Companion
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Groves, R.H. and Whalley, R.D.B. (2
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Iaconis, L. (2004) Chilean needle g
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Levine, J.M., Adler, P.B. and Yelen
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McDougall, K.L. (1987) Sites of Bot
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Morfe, T.A., McLaren, D.A. and Weis
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Perelman, S.B., León, R.J.C. and O
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Saunders, D.A. (1999) Biodiversity
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Thellung, A. (1912) La flore advent
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Weiss, J. and McLaren, D. (2002) Vi
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