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1 Online-Ressource (512 pages)
ISBN:
9781921666810
,
1921666811
,
9781921666803
,
1921666803
Series Statement:
Terra Australis 32
Content:
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.
Content:
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.
Content:
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].
Content:
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.
Content:
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].
Note:
Festschrift in honor of Geoffrey Hope
,
Includes bibliographical references
,
Comparative AMS 14C dating of plant macrofossils, beetles and pollen preparations from two Late Pleistocene sites in southeastern Australia
,
Holocene lowland vegetation change and human ecology in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
,
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
,
Observations on feeding frequencies among native and exotic birds and fruitbats at Erythrina variegata and Dysoxylum trees on American Samoa
,
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
,
Can Myrtaceae pollen of the Holocene from Bega Swamp (New South Wales, Australia) be compared with extant taxa?
,
The evolution of a coastal peatland at Byron Bay, Australia: Multi-proxy evidence from the microfossil record
,
Development of mountain peatlands in stable equilibrium with open-channel hydraulics: A new concept in peatland formation and maintenance
,
Glacier crippling and the rise of the snowline in western New Guinea (Papua Province, Indonesia) from 1972 to 2000
,
Altitudinal limits of 230 economic crop species in Papua New Guinea
,
Geomorphic and archaeological consequences of human arrival and agricultural expansion on Pacific islands: A reconsideration after 30 years of debate
,
Pollen evidence for plant introductions in a Polynesian tropical island ecosystem, Kingdom of Tonga
,
Integrating social and environmental change in prehistory: A discussion of the role of landscape as a heuristic in defining prehistoric possibilities in northeast Thailand
,
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
,
Beneath the peat: A refined pollen record from an interstadial at Caledonia Fen, highland eastern Victoria, Australia
,
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
,
Last Glacial Maximum habitat change and its effects on the grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825)
,
Human colonisation and ecological impacts. Megafaunal extinctions and their consequences in the tropical Indo-Pacific
,
Marsupials as introduced species: Long-term anthropogenic expansion of the marsupial frontier and its implications for zoogeographic interpretation
,
The empty coast: Conditions for human occupation in southeast Australia during the late Pleistocene
,
Early Holocene human occupation and environment of the Southeast Australian Alps: New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales
,
Ecological drift or stable fire cycles in Tasmania: A resolution?
,
Restoration of mires of the Australian Alps following the 2003 wildfires
,
Post-fire experimental trials of vegetation restoration techniques in the peatlands of Namadgi (ACT) and Kosciuszko National Parks (NSW), Australia
,
Methodological advances and applications in environmental change research. The archaic and puzzling record of Lake Xere Wapo, New Caledonia
,
English
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ISBN 9781921666803
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Altered ecologies Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, 2010 ISBN 9781921666803
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1921666803
Language:
English
Keywords:
Australien
;
Ozeanien
;
Biogeografie
;
Humanökologie
;
Klimaänderung
;
Palökologie
;
Umweltveränderung
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