Ground Cover - Grasses
Benchmark Value
Scoring Curve
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Evidence & Context
Medium to Tiny Non-tufted Graminoid. 4. 5% MNG.
Projective foliage cover of medium-to-tiny non-tufted graminoids within a standard 0.1 hectare plot
Supplementary grass cohort cover targeted in high-health woodlands.
The cited source explicitly identifies this value as a healthy operational target for subalpine woodland grass cover.
Sources (1)
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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Additional references from the underlying research that informed this benchmark.
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.
View SourceSummit 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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