Ground Cover - Grasses
Benchmark Value
Scoring Curve
The scoring engine could not generate a curve for this benchmark context. The primary form is Point, but the benchmark data may be missing required fields (e.g., optimal range bounds for an OptimalRange benchmark). This is typically a data quality issue in the benchmark pipeline.
Evidence & Context
Graminoids | 72.6 | +22.4 | 50.9 | +30.4 | 82.6
Overlapping vegetative foliage cover percentage of graminoids
Represents reference-state grass cover on stable high-altitude summits managed strictly for conservation.
The cited source explicitly identifies this value as a reference condition on high-altitude summits.
Sources (1)
Summit vegetation monitoring dataset analysis (GLORIA Network). (2014). Species life-form categories strongly affected compositional changes and functional composition, with increasing dominance of tall shrubs and graminoids at the lower-elevation summits, and an overall increase in graminoids across the gradient.
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Additional references from the underlying research that informed this benchmark.
Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE). (2004). Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC) Bioregion Benchmark - East Gippsland Uplands Bioregion: EVC 206 Sub-alpine Grassland.
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Pickering, C. M., Hill, W., & Johnston, F. M. (2005). Recovery of Alpine Vegetation from Grazing and Drought: Data from Long-term Photoquadrats in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia.
View SourceRehwinkel, R. (2014). Revised Floristic Value Scoring Method for grassland condition.
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