Burning studies cited in the Tussocks MIS

Allen, R.B; Basher, L.R; Comrie, J. 1996: The use of fire for conservation management in New Zealand. Science for conservation :23. Department of Conservation.

Allen, R.B; Partridge, T.R. 1988: Effects of spring and autumn fires on the composition of Chionochloa rigida tussock grassland, New Zealand. Vegetatio 76: 37-44.

Basher, L.R.; Meurk, C.D.; Tate, K.R. 1990. The effects of burning on soil properties and vegetation: A review of the scientific evidence relating to the sustainability of ecosystems and land use in the eastern South Island hill and high country. D.S.I.R. Land Resources Technical Record 18. 93p.

Bulloch, B.T. 1973: A low altitude snow tussock reserve at Black Rock, Eastern Otago. Proceedings of the New Zealand Ecological Society, 20: 41-47.

Calder, J.A.; Wilson, J.B.; Mark, A.F.; Ward, G. 1992: Fire, succession and reserve management in a New Zealand snow tussock grassland. Biological Conservation 62: 35-45.

Gitay, H.; Lee, W.G.; Allen, R.B.; Wilson, J.B. 1992: Recovery of Chionochloa rigida tussocks from fires in South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Environmental Management 35: 249-259. Gitay, H.; Wilson, B. 1995: Post-fire changes in community structure of tall tussock grassland: a test of alternative models of succession. Journal of Ecology, 83: 775-782.

Gitay, H.; Wilson, J.B.; Lee, W.G., Allen, R.B. 1991: Chionochloa rigida tussocks thirteen years after spring and autumn fire, Flagstaff, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 29: 459-462. Lee, W.G.; Gitay, H.; Allen, R.B. 1996: Recovery index for narrow-leaved snow tussock (Chionochloa rigida ssp. rigida) in montane and subalpine Otago, New Zealand. Landcare Research Contract Report LC 9596/, prepared for Dept of Conservation, Science and Research Division, PO Box 10420, Wellington.

Mark, A.F. 1965: Effects of management practices on narrow-leaved snow tussock, Chionochloa rigida. New Zealand Journal of Botany 3: 300-319.

Mark, A.F. 1994: Effects of burning and grazing on sustainable utilisation of Upland snow tussock (Chionochloa spp,) rangelands for pastoralism in South Island, New Zealand. Australian Journal of Botany, 42: 149-161.

Mather, A.S. 1982. The desertification of Central Otago, New Zealand. Environmental Conservation, 9: 209-216.

McKendry, P.J.; O'Connor, K.F. 1990. The ecology of tussock grasslands for production and protection. Unpublished report for the Department of Conservation.

O'Connor, K.F. 1982. The implications of past exploitation and current developments to the conservation of South Island tussock grasslands. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 5: 97-107.

Parliament Commissioner for the Environment 1995. A review of the government system for managing the South Island tussock grasslands: with particular reference to tussock burning. Wellington.

Patterson, G.B. 1984. The effect of burning-off tussock grassland on the population density of common skinks. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 11: 189-194.

Payton, I.J. and Brasch, D.J. 1978: Growth and nonstructural carbohydrate reserves in Chionochloa rigida and C. macra, and their short-term response to fire. New Zealand Journal of Botany 16: 435-60.

Payton, I.J.; Lee, W.G.; Dolby, R.; Mark, A.F. 1986: Nutrient concentrations in narrow-leaved snow tussock (Chionochloa rigida) after spring burning. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 24: 529-537.

Rogers, G.M. 1991. Rates of shrub invasion of North island tussock grasslands. Forest Research Contract Report: FWE 91/33.

Rogers, G.M. 1994. North Island seral tussock grasslands 1. Origins and land-use history. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 32: 271-286.

Rogers, G.M.; Leathwick, J.R. 1994. North Island seral tussock grasslands 2. Autogenic succession: change of tussock grassland to shrubland. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 32: 287-303.


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