
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Specht, RL 
T1  - Dark Island heath (Ninety-mile Plain, South Australia).  IV. Soil moisture patterns produced by rainfall interception and stem-flow
JF  - Australian Journal of Botany
JO  - Aust. J. Bot.
Y1  - 1957
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SP  - 137
EP  - 150
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9570137 
N2  - 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. 
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