Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning / editors: L.J. Webb and J. Kikkawa.
Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning / editors: L.J. Webb and J. Kikkawa.
Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning / editors: L.J. Webb and J. Kikkawa.
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Publisher
Melbourne : CSIRO, c1990.
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NQ333.750994/4A , NQ333.750994/4
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 185 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Contents
Introduction / L.J. Webb -- The depths of time -- 1. Australian rainforests: the 100 million year record / E.M. Truswell -- 2. Directions and rates of rainforest processes / D. Walker -- 3. People and the rainforest: an archaeological perspective / N. Horsfall and J. Hall -- 4. Disturbance - the for...
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Publisher
Melbourne : CSIRO, c1990.
Place of Publication
Victoria
Date Published
c1990.
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Summary
North Queensland's rainforests occupy the only part of mainland Australia that has persisted continuously as wet tropics for about the last 65 million years (since the Cretaceous period), when the continent was a portion of the supercontinent Gondwana. Because many primitive families of the world's flowering plants occur as relicts, these forests h...
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Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning / editors: L.J. Webb and J. Kikkawa.
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General note
"This book is based on contributions to a two-day symposium at the 57th ANZAAS Congress, Townsville, 24-28 August 1987 ..."
Includes index and bibliographical references.
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Date Copyright
c1990.
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NQ333.750994/4A , NQ333.750994/4
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74VvokAaRjGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvokAaRjGO
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ISBN
0643050558:
9780643050556 :
0643050558 :
9780643050556
0643050558
9780643050556:
DDC
333.750994
574.526421520943
MMS ID
991013328219702626
