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 evolution of the unique Australian flora and the wide variety of vegetation types contained within it. The first part of the book covers the past continental relationships of Australia, its palaeoclimate, fauna, and the evolution of its landforms since the rise to dominance of the angiosperms at the beginning of the Cretaceous period. A detailed summary of the palaeobotanical record is then presented, which uses the palynological record to give an overview of the vegetation and the distribution of important taxa within it and the macrofossil record is used to trace the evolution of critical taxa.
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"...a most important synthesis to be used in conjunction with R.H. Grove's 2nd ed. of Australian Vegetation...." Taxon 43
"More than merely a study of Australian paleobotany, this handsome volume incorporates the fossil record, geology, interaction with mammalian fauna, and climate in a series of 16 chapters written by varied authorities on Australian vegetation and natural history. Covering a period of roughly 150,000,000 years, the test includes a reference to just about every significant paper written about the origin and evolution of Australian flora....recommended." Choice
"...a very comprehensive documentation of the Australian tertiary flora....This reviewer whole-heartedly recommends that this book be purchased...and placed on the bookshelves of all those individuals involved in the study of plant history, be they geologists, paleobotanists or those botanists who need to expand their geographical horizons. Not only is this book thoroughly researched with many references, some not readily accessible to North Americans, but it represents a model for books that ought to be written summarizing the tertiary floras of North America, Asia and Europe." Herbert L. Hergert, Plant Science Bulletin
"How did this vegetation develop and evolve? Robert Hill's History of the Australian Vegetation is a scholarly treatise on the various forces that have lead to the recent flora. The beautifully produced book is a product of several complementary scientific approaches to the question, with contributions from paleobotanists, geologists, palynologists, and stratigraphers. Together, they offer us a detailed and critical discussion....gives[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 than merely a study of Australian paleobotany, this handsome volume incorporates the fossil record, geology, interaction with mammalian fauna, and climate in a series of 16 chapters written by varied authorities on Australian vegetation and natural history. Covering a period of roughly 150,000,000 years, the test includes a reference to just about every significant paper written about the origin and evolution of Australian flora....recommended." Choice
"...a very comprehensive documentation of the Australian tertiary flora....This reviewer whole-heartedly recommends that this book be purchased...and placed on the bookshelves of all those individuals involved in the study of plant history, be they geologists, paleobotanists or those botanists who need to expand their geographical horizons. Not only is this book thoroughly researched with many references, some not readily accessible to North Americans, but it represents a model for books that ought to be written summarizing the tertiary floras of North America, Asia and Europe." Herbert L. Hergert, Plant Science Bulletin
"How did this vegetation develop and evolve? Robert Hill's History of the Australian Vegetation is a scholarly treatise on the various forces that have lead to the recent flora. The beautifully produced book is a product of several complementary scientific approaches to the question, with contributions from paleobotanists, geologists, palynologists, and stratigraphers. Together, they offer us a detailed and critical discussion....gives[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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Modern patterns of vegetation in Australia are a product of the processes which happened in the past. This volume discusses the findings of researchers working on post-Jurassic sediments, and suggests how the effects of environmental variables have determined these modern vegetation patterns.
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The living Australian flora is a complex mixture of species with widely varying distributions and interactions, covering the range from arid zone grassland to rainforest, alpine heath to mangrove swamp. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stratigraphie palynology, mesothermal rainforest, pollen dominance, canopy taxa, darker coals, wet sclerophyllous, cool climate flora, proteaceous type, rainforest taxa, palynological sites, rainforest associations, swamp taxa, dispersed cuticles, rainforest angiosperms, microfossil taxa, leaf size index, flanking basins, sclerophyllous communities, mesophyll vine forest, coal colour, coal swamp vegetation, coal floras, notophyll vine forest, marginal marine sediments, angiospermous pollen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, New South Wales, New Guinea, South Australia, Late Oligocene, Late Miocene, Geological Society, Maslin Bay, Latrobe Valley, Geological Survey, Golden Grove, New Caledonia, Special Publication, Regatta Point, Late Pliocene, Little Rapid River, Late Paleocene, Linnean Society, Nelly Creek, Australian Tertiary, Australian Systematic Botany, Lake Eyre Basin, Eromanga Basin, Perth Basin, Eucla Basin New!
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stratigraphie palynology, mesothermal rainforest, pollen dominance, canopy taxa, darker coals, wet sclerophyllous, cool climate flora, proteaceous type, rainforest taxa, palynological sites, rainforest associations, swamp taxa, dispersed cuticles, rainforest angiosperms, microfossil taxa, leaf size index, flanking basins, sclerophyllous communities, mesophyll vine forest, coal colour, coal swamp vegetation, coal floras, notophyll vine forest, marginal marine sediments, angiospermous pollen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, New South Wales, New Guinea, South Australia, Late Oligocene, Late Miocene, Geological Society, Maslin Bay, Latrobe Valley, Geological Survey, Golden Grove, New Caledonia, Special Publication, Regatta Point, Late Pliocene, Little Rapid River, Late Paleocene, Linnean Society, Nelly Creek, Australian Tertiary, Australian Systematic Botany, Lake Eyre Basin, Eromanga Basin, Perth Basin, Eucla Basin New!
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- The Old Country: Australian Landscapes, Plants and People by George Seddon in Back Matter
- Applied Stratigraphy (Topics in Geobiology) by Eduardo A.M. Koutsoukos in Back Matter
- Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin: Chronologies, Causes, Consequences by Patrick D. Nunn in Back Matter
- Regolith Geology and Geomorphology by G. Taylor in Back Matter
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