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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Canberra, ACT :
ANU E Press,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Terra Australis ;
32. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.