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Altered ecologies : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes /

Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal d...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haberle, Simon (Editor ), Stevenson, Janelle (Editor ), Prebble, Matthew (Editor ), Hope, Geoffrey S. (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2010]
Colección:Terra Australis ; 32.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: A D-section and a tin whistle: A tribute to Prof. Geoff Hope
  • Ecosystem responses to long and short term climate change. The contrasting biology of tropical versus temperate Nothofagus species and its relevance to interpretations of Cenozoic rainforest history in southeast Australia / Jennifer Read [and others]
  • Beneath the peat: A refined pollen record from an interstadial at Caledonia Fen, highland eastern Victoria, Australia / A. Peter Kershaw [and others]
  • The vegetation cover of New Zealand during the Last Glacial Maximum: Do pollen records under-represent woody vegetation?vMatt S. McGlone, Rewi M. Newnham and Neville T. Moar
  • Holocene vegetation history of a high-elevation (1200 m) site in the Lake Heron Basin, inland Canterbury, New Zealand / J.M. Pugh and J. Shulmeister
  • Last Glacial Maximum habitat change and its effects on the grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825) / J.G. Luly [and others].
  • Observations on feeding frequencies among native and exotic birds and fruitbats at Erythrina variegata and Dysoxylum trees on American Samoa / Julie A. Sherman and Patricia L. Fall
  • Human colonisation and ecological impacts. Megafaunal extinctions and their consequences in the tropical Indo-Pacific / Richard T. Corlett
  • Marsupials as introduced species: Long-term anthropogenic expansion of the marsupial frontier and its implications for zoogeographic interpretation / Thomas E. Heinsohn
  • The empty coast: Conditions for human occupation in southeast Australia during the late Pleistocene / Sandra Bowdler
  • Early Holocene human occupation and environment of the Southeast Australian Alps: New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales / Ken Aplin, Fred Ford and Peter Hiscock.
  • Holocene lowland vegetation change and human ecology in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea / Matthew Prebble, Jean Kennedy and Wendy Southern
  • Geomorphic and archaeological consequences of human arrival and agricultural expansion on Pacific islands: A reconsideration after 30 years of debate / Matthew Spriggs
  • Pollen evidence for plant introductions in a Polynesian tropical island ecosystem, Kingdom of Tonga / Patricia L. Fall
  • Integrating social and environmental change in prehistory: A discussion of the role of landscape as a heuristic in defining prehistoric possibilities in northeast Thailand / William E. Boyd and Nigel Chang
  • Fire and its role in transforming our environment. A 40,000 year wood charcoal record from Carpenter's Gap 1: New insights into palaeovegetation change and Indigenous foraging strategies in the Kimberley, Western Australia / Susan Frawley and Sue O'Connor.
  • The burning question: Claims and counter claims on the origin and extent of buttongrass moorland (blanket moor) in southwest Tasmania during the present glacial-interglacial / Mike Macphail
  • Ecological drift or stable fire cycles in Tasmania: A resolution? / Ian Thomas, Phil Cullen and Michael-Shawn Fletcher
  • Restoration of mires of the Australian Alps following the 2003 wildfires / Roger Good [and others]
  • Post-fire experimental trials of vegetation restoration techniques in the peatlands of Namadgi (ACT) and Kosciuszko National Parks (NSW), Australia / Jennie Whinam [and others]
  • Methodological advances and applications in environmental change research. The archaic and puzzling record of Lake Xere Wapo, New Caledonia / Janelle Stevenson [and others].
  • Comparative AMS 14C dating of plant macrofossils, beetles and pollen preparations from two Late Pleistocene sites in southeastern Australia / Nick Porch, A. Peter Kershaw
  • Can Myrtaceae pollen of the Holocene from Bega Swamp (New South Wales, Australia) be compared with extant taxa? / Andrew H. Thornhill
  • The evolution of a coastal peatland at Byron Bay, Australia: Multi-proxy evidence from the microfossil record / Kathryn H. Taffs [and others]
  • Development of mountain peatlands in stable equilibrium with open-channel hydraulics: A new concept in peatland formation and maintenance / Rachel Nanson
  • Glacier crippling and the rise of the snowline in western New Guinea (Papua Province, Indonesia) from 1972 to 2000 / Michael L. Prentice and S. Glidden
  • Altitudinal limits of 230 economic crop species in Papua New Guinea / R. Michael Bourke.