
%0 Journal Article
%A Specht, RL 
%T Dark Island heath (Ninety-mile Plain, South Australia).  IV. Soil moisture patterns produced by rainfall interception and stem-flow
%J Australian Journal of Botany
%D 1957/11/01
%V 5
%N 2
%P 137-150
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9570137
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BT9570137 
%X Rainfall interception and stem-flow in the heath vegetation on the Makin sand of the Ninety-Mile Plain of South Australia are discussed. The nanophyllous shrubs, Banksia ornata and Xanthorrhoea australis, intercept and redistribute a large percentage of the rainfall. Striking differences in soil moisture contents are produced over very small distances; these differences are not conspicuous underneath the leptophyllous undershrubs, although rainfall interception by their foliage and litter may reduce the quantity of water reaching the soil. 
