FIG. 124. DANTHONIA PILOSA ADVANCE ON SOWN GRASSLAND. Bush-burn country which originally held good rye-grass, cocksfoot, crested dogstail, poa pratensis, and white clover, showing these species being replaced by Danthonia pilosa. The white patches in the photo are danthonia. It will be noted that dominance of danthonia is first secured on the dry infertile knolls, and spread from here takes place as the soil-fertility becomes more and more depleted. Top-dressing such an area would stop the danthonia advance and confine it entirely to the poorer knolls.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5, 21 May 1928, Page 303
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86FIG. 124. DANTHONIA PILOSA ADVANCE ON SOWN GRASSLAND. Bush-burn country which originally held good rye-grass, cocksfoot, crested dogstail, poa pratensis, and white clover, showing these species being replaced by Danthonia pilosa. The white patches in the photo are danthonia. It will be noted that dominance of danthonia is first secured on the dry infertile knolls, and spread from here takes place as the soil-fertility becomes more and more depleted. Top-dressing such an area would stop the danthonia advance and confine it entirely to the poorer knolls. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5, 21 May 1928, Page 303
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