This new edition of Australian Vegetation reviews the vegetation of the continent as a whole. In the introductory section, chapters on phytogeography, vegetation history, and alien plants set the scene for further sections covering all the major vegetation types. The plant life of extreme Australian habitats is also discussed, and the book closes with a chapter on the conservation of Australian vegetation. The second edition includes a new chapter on coastal vegetation and authors have taken the opportunity to update research on other vegetation types and their conservation status.
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"...a most welcome update..." Taxon 43
"More of a reference than a general work, it is adroitly edited with almost all chapters written in a smooth, flowing readable style....well-crafted volume. Highly recommended." Choice
"R.H. Groves' new edition of the Australian Vegetation is the tonic for us all. This superb compendium gives the basic conditions, species, and ecological factors that discriminate the many formations in the continent....give[s] the botanist an enormous satisfaction of being able to make sense, in ecological and evolutionary ways, of a flora that at first glance seems so alien." Steven N. Handel, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
"More of a reference than a general work, it is adroitly edited with almost all chapters written in a smooth, flowing readable style....well-crafted volume. Highly recommended." Choice
"R.H. Groves' new edition of the Australian Vegetation is the tonic for us all. This superb compendium gives the basic conditions, species, and ecological factors that discriminate the many formations in the continent....give[s] the botanist an enormous satisfaction of being able to make sense, in ecological and evolutionary ways, of a flora that at first glance seems so alien." Steven N. Handel, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
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Introductory chapters on phytogeography, vegetation history as well as alien plants preface this new edition's review of all of the major unique vegetation types of the Australian continent through contributions by experts on varying species habitats.
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THE AUSTRALIAN vegetation has many unique features, both in composition and structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fagus cunninghamii, wet sclerophyll eucalypts, mallee communities, regnans forest, bioclimatic provinces, foliage projective cover, western myall, chenopod shrubs, mallee lands, aneura shrublands, alpine humus, inverse texture effect, mallee areas, arid zone flora, rainforest genera, saltmarsh species, mallee eucalypts, mulga communities, intertidal wetlands, projective foliage cover, heathland species, chenopod shrublands, wet sclerophyll forests, southern rainforests, rainforest elements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, South Australia, Royal Society, New Guinea, Cambridge University Press, New Zealand, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Government Publishing Service, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Government Printer, Bogong High Plains, Ecological Society, The Hague, Australian Forestry, South America, Alpine Australasia, Linnean Society, Wildlife Service, Australian National University Press, Melbourne University Press, Atlas of Australian Resources, New York, Dark Island, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Cape York Peninsula New!
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THE AUSTRALIAN vegetation has many unique features, both in composition and structure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fagus cunninghamii, wet sclerophyll eucalypts, mallee communities, regnans forest, bioclimatic provinces, foliage projective cover, western myall, chenopod shrubs, mallee lands, aneura shrublands, alpine humus, inverse texture effect, mallee areas, arid zone flora, rainforest genera, saltmarsh species, mallee eucalypts, mulga communities, intertidal wetlands, projective foliage cover, heathland species, chenopod shrublands, wet sclerophyll forests, southern rainforests, rainforest elements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, South Australia, Royal Society, New Guinea, Cambridge University Press, New Zealand, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Government Publishing Service, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Government Printer, Bogong High Plains, Ecological Society, The Hague, Australian Forestry, South America, Alpine Australasia, Linnean Society, Wildlife Service, Australian National University Press, Melbourne University Press, Atlas of Australian Resources, New York, Dark Island, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Cape York Peninsula New!
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