The effects of fire and quokkas (Setonix brachyurus) on the vegetation of Rottnest Island, Western Australia

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 49-60

  Rippey, M E ^a   Hobbs, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Quokkas; Rottnest Island; Vegetation; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

FIRE; GRAZING; PLANT COMMUNITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; ROTTNEST ISLAND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ACACIA; CACAJAO; CALLITRIS; MELALEUCA; SETONIX BRACHYURUS;

EID: 1142293241     PISSN: 0035922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Abbott I 1980 Aboriginal man as an exterminator of wallaby and kangaroo populations on islands round Australia. Oecologia 44:347-354.
2. Abbott I, Marchant N & Cranfield R 2000 Long-term change in the floristic composition and vegetation structure of Carnac Island, Western Australia. Journal of Biogeography 27:333-346.
3. Anon 1917 Rottnest Island By-Laws. Western Australian Government Gazette. Western Australian Government, Perth.
4. Anon 1933 Rottnest Island By-Laws. Western Australian Government Gazette (8 December). Western Australian Government, Perth.
5. Backhouse J 1993 Holocene vegetation and climate record from Barker Swamp, Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 76:53-61.
6. Baird A M 1958 Notes on the regeneration of vegetation of Garden Island after the 1956 fire. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 41:102-107.
7. Bell D T, Moredount J C & Loneragan W A 1987 Grazing pressure by the tammar (Macropus eugenii Desm) on the vegetation of Garden Island, Western Australia, and the potential impact on food reserves of a controlled burning regime. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 69:89-94.
8. Churchill D M 1960 Late Quaternary changes in the vegetation on Rottnest Island. Western Australian Naturalist 7:160-166.
9. Ferguson R J 1986 Rottnest Island History and Architecture. University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands.
10. Groves J 2001 A Holocene fire history record of southwestern Australia: implications for palaeoclimate and Aboriginal burning. Honours Thesis, Geography Department, University of Western Australia, Perth.
11. Hesp P A, Wells M R, Ward B H R & Riches J R H 1983 Land Resource Survey of Rottnest Island. Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Perth.
12. Hobbs R J 1994 Dynamics of vegetation mosaics: can we predict responses to global change? Ecoscience 1:346-356.
13. Hopkins A J M & Harvey J M 1985 Fire on offshore islands - problems and management solutions. Proceedings of a technical workshop: Australian and New Zealand Islands: Nature Conservation Values and Management (ed A Burbidge). Department of Conservation and Land Management, Western Australia, 83-95.
14. Joske P, Jeffery C & Hoffman L 1995 Rottnest Island a Documentary History. Centre for Migration and Development Studies, University of Western Australia, Perth.
15. Law R & Morton R D 1993. Alternative permanent states of ecological communities. Ecology 74:1345-1361.
16. Lawson F 1905 A visit to Rottnest Island, W.A., Emu 4:129-132.
17. Laycock W A 1991. Stable states and thresholds of range condition on North American rangelands: a viewpoint. Journal of Range Management 44:427-433.
18. Marchant N G 1977 Plants. In: The Natural Features of Rottnest Island (ed G R W Meadly). Rottnest Island Board, Perth.
19. Marchant N G & Abbott I 1981 Historical and recent observations of the flora of Garden Island, Western Australia. Western Australian Herbarium Research Notes 5:49-62.
20. May R M 1977. Thresholds and breakpoints in ecosystems with a multiplicity of stable states. Nature 269:471-477.
21. McArthur W M 1996a The effects of fire on the vegetation of Garden Island, Western Australia, and the impact of grazing by tammars (Macropus eugenii) on subsequent regeneration. HMAS Stirling, Department of Defence (Navy Office), Garden Island, Western Australia.
22. McArthur W M 1996b The vegetation communities and some aspects of landscape management of Garden Island, Western Australia. HMAS Stirling, Department of Defence (Navy Office), Garden Island, Western Australia.
23. McArthur W M 1998 Changes in species and structure in the major plant communities of Garden Island, Western Australia, 1990-1996. HMAS Stirling Department of Defence - Navy, Garden Island, Western Australia.
24. Noble J C 1997 The Delicate and Noxious Scrub: CSIRO Studies on Native Tree and Shrub Proliferation in the Semi-arid Woodlands of Eastern Australia. CSIRO. Canberra.
25. Noble J R & Slatyer R O 1980 The use of vital attributes to predict successional changes in plant communities subject to recurrent disturbances. Vegetatio 43:5-21.
26. O'Connor D, Morris C, Dunlop J N, Hasper J & Proud I 1977 Rottnest Island. A National Estate Survey of its History, Architecture and Environment. Book 2. Environment. Advance Press, Perth.
27. Osborne J M Klomp N I & Burke M R 1985 Post-fire regeneration of heathland, Rottnest Island: a preliminary investigation. Mulga Research Centre Journal 8:129-133
28. Paczowska G & Chapman A R 2000 The Western Australian Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue. Western Australian Herbarium, Wildflower Society of Western Australia, and Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, Perth.
29. Pen L J & Green J W 1983 Botanical exploration and vegetational changes on Rottnest Island. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 66:20-24.
30. Playford P E 1988 Guidebook to the Geology of Rottnest Island. Geological Society of Australia, WA Division, and the Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth.
31. Powell R & Emberson J 1981. Woodman Point: A relic of Perth's Coastal Vegetation. Artlook, Perth.
32. Simmons M H 1981. Acacias of Australia. Nelson, Melbourne.
33. Somerville W 1976 Rottnest Island: its history and legend. Rottnest Island Board, Perth.
34. Storr G M 1962 Annotated flora of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 8:109-124.
35. Storr G M 1963 Some factors inducing change in the vegetation of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. Western Australian Naturalist 9:15-22.
36. Storr G M, Green J W & Churchill D M 1959 The vegetation of Rottnest Island. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 42:70-71.
37. Sutherland J P 1974. Multiple stable points in natural communities. American Naturalist 108:859-873.
38. Weston A S 1985 Fire - and persistence of the flora on Middle Island, a southwestern Australian offshore island. In: Fire ecology and management of Western Australian ecosystems: Proceedings of a Symposium held in Perth on 10-11 May 1985 (ed J R Ford). WAIT Environmental Studies Group report 0815-2985; 14. Western Australian Institute of Technology, Perth, 111-117.
39. Whelan R J & Main A R 1979 Insect grazing and post-fire plant succession in south-west Australian woodland. Australian Journal of Ecology 4:387-398
40. White G J & Edmiston R J 1974 The vegetation of Rottnest. Forests Department of Western Australia, Perth.
41. Wykes B & McArthur W M 1995 Fire ecology and fire management of Garden Island. In: Burning our Bushland: Proceedings of a Conference about Fire and Urban Bushland (ed J Harris). Urban Bushland Council (WA), Perth, 25-29.