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History of the Australian vegetation : Cretaceous to Recent /

The Australian vegetation is the end result of a remarkable history of climate change, latitudinal change, continental isolation, soil evolution, interaction with an evolving fauna, fire and most recently human impact. This book presents a detailed synopsis of the critical events that led to the evo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hill, Robert S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Adelaide, South Australia : University of Adelaide Press, 2017.
Colección:Cambridge EBA Collection
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Australian fossil plant record : an introduction / R.S. Hill
  • Maps of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Gondwana break-up : some palaeogeographical implications / G.E. Wilford and P.J. Brown
  • The background : 144 million years of Australian palaeoclimate and palaeogeography / P.G. Quilty
  • Palaeobotanical evidence for Tertiary climates / D.R. Greenwood
  • Landscapes of Australia : their nature and evolution / G. Taylor
  • Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats / M. Archer, S.J. Hand & H. Godthelp
  • Australian Tertiary phytogeography : evidence from palynology / H.A. Martin
  • Cretaceous vegetation : the microfossil record / M.E. Dettmann
  • Cretaceous vegetation : the macrofossil record / J.G. Douglas
  • Early Tertiary vegetation : evidence from spores and pollen / M.K. Macphail [and others]
  • The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia / D.C. Christophel
  • Cenozoic vegetation in Tasmania : macrofossil evidence / R.J. Carpenter, R.S. Hill & G.J. Jordan
  • The Neogene : a period of transition / A.P. Kershaw, H.A. Martin & J.R.C. McEwen Mason.