Project information

KIRKPATRICK, Prof. James (Jamie)
University of Tasmania
HIMI

Project aim

Heard Island environments are changing steadily as global climate change
occurs. This project will gather information that will enable completion
of a vegetation map for Heard Island; will revisit sites studied and
marked in 1987 to document changes in vegetation, including colonisation
of recently deglaciated land and sites previously disturbed by humans; and
will provide advice for visitor management protocols to minimise
vegetation disturbance. The island will be surveyed for new species that
may be recently arrived or previously unrecorded, and changes in species
which had limited distribution in 1987 will be documented.

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