Monitoring the Rangelands - Photographic
Sequences for Flinders Lofty Block
The Rangelands Information System Photographic Sequences is a tool which allows the user to view a photographic record of particular areas in the Rangelands. The photographs
and other information for Flinders Lofty Block has been provided by
Adelaide University.
Koonamore Vegetation Reserve Photosequences
- KVR is the common abbreviation for "the T.G.B.Osborn Vegetation Reserve at Koonamore", set up to record the regeneration of native vegetation when a heavily overgrazed area was fenced off to exclude sheep and rabbits.
- This website contains photo-sequences from 7 photopoints, six spanning the range 1926 to 2000, the seventh 1947 to 2000. The long sequences contain from 85 to 124 images each, the shorter one 67.
- Located about 400 km north-east of Adelaide, South Australia (Lat. 32007S, Long. 139020E) ; chenopod shrubland; mean annual rainfall about 200mm.
- The reserve was fenced in 1925 and first records made in 1926. Over 70 photopoints and several permanent quadrats have been read regularly since.
- Some regeneration began within about 10 years of fencing, but very little recruitment of seedling trees. Rabbits were never exterminated within the reserve and numbers were sometimes high for the first 50 years. They have been actively controlled since 1975. Since then there has been dramatic establishment of seedlings of several large shrub and tree species.
- Active recording and research continues on the reserve.
For more information contact:
Dr. Russ Sinclair,
Department of Environmental Biology,
Adelaide University,
South Australia 5005.
email: russell.sinclair@adelaide.edu.au
The following photographic sequence products are available for the Flinders Lofty Block bioregion:
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