
%0 Journal Article
%A Gibson, N 
%A Kirkpatrick, JB 
%T Effects of the Cessation of Grazing on the Grasslands and Grassy Woodlands of the Central Plateau, Tasmania
%J Australian Journal of Botany
%D 1989/02/01
%V 37
%N 1
%P 55-63
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9890055
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/BT9890055 
%X The response of grassy vegetation to exclusion from grazing was found to be related to a major productivity gradient in the central highlands of Tasmania. All sites showed a trend toward increased structural complexity, a decrease in bare ground and a decrease in species richness when grazing was excluded. However, the effect was much more pronounced at sites of high productivity. These findings support the theory that species richness is a function of both disturbance and the rate of competitive exclusion (site quality), and support suggestions that stock grazing is inappropriate above 1000 m on the Central Plateau. 
