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Far South Ecology

Adventures of a plant nerd south of Australia

Month: March 2017

Return of the Megaherbs

Posted onMarch 31, 2017March 31, 2017

Four years have passed since I first visited Macquarie Island and now the subantarctic island looks like a different place. The distinctive tussock grass is dotted across the coastal slopes in a scene reminiscent of the 1980s and 1990s when Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsMacquarie Island, megaherbs, rabbits, rephotography, Subantarctic

Heading far south

Posted onMarch 14, 2017

The Aurora Australis is preparing to leave Hobart on a warm still autumn day. It looks like it will be a gentle cruise down the Derwent Estuary and across Storm Bay. We’re not expecting any bad weather for the first Read More …

CategoriesSubantarcticTagsAurora Australis

One year after Tasmania’s alpine wildfire

Posted onMarch 13, 2017May 13, 2017

In February 2017 I visited the charred landscape around Lake Mackenzie on Tasmania’s Central Plateau. Having seen many photographs of the devastation in the months after the bushfires of January 2016 I was curious to see the damage – and Read More …

CategoriesTasmaniaTagsalpine, Athrotaxis, bushfire, Central Plateau, conifers, fire ecology, subalpine, World Heritage

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