History of the Australian vegetation : cretaceous to recent / edited by Robert S. Hill
- Bib ID:
- 7387423
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- [2017 edition].
- Description:
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- [Adelaide, South Australia] : University of Adelaide Press, 2017
- ©1994
- ix, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925261462 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"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 vegetational types contained within it. The first part of the book details 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. The palynological record gives an overview of the vegetation and the distribution of important taxa within it, while the complementary macrofossil record is used to trace the evolution of critical taxa. This book will interest graduate students and researchers interested in the evolution of the flora of this fascinating continent."--Publisher.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction to the 2017 edition / R. S. Hill
- 1. The Australian fossil plant record: an introduction / R. S. Hill
- 2. Maps of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Gondwana break-up: some palaeogeographical implications / G. E. Wilford & P. J. Brown
- 3. The background: 144 million years of Australian palaeoclimate and palaeogeography / P. G. Quilty
- 4. Palaeobotanical evidence for Tertiary climates / D. R. Greenwood
- 5. Landscapes of Australia: their nature and evolution / G. Taylor
- 6. Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats / M. Archer, S. J. Hand & H. Godthelp
- 7. Australian Tertiary phytogeography: evidence from palynology / H. A. Martin
- 8. Cretaceous vegetation: the microfossil record / M. E. Dettmann
- 9. Cretaceous vegetation: the macrofossil record / J. G. Douglas
- 10. Early Tertiary vegetation: evidence from spores and pollen / M. K. Macphail, N. F. Alley, E. M. Truswell & I. R. K. Sluiter
- 11. The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia / D. C. Christophel
- 12. Cenozoic vegetation in Tasmania: macrofossil evidence / R. J. Carpenter, R. S. Hill & G. J. Jordan
- 13. The Neogene: a period of transition / A. P. Kershaw, H. A. Martin & J. R. C. McEwen Mason
- 14. The Oligo-Miocene coal floras of southeastern Australia / D. T. Blackburn & I. R. K. Sluiter
- 15. Quaternary vegetation / G. S. Hope
- 16. The history of selected Australian taxa / R. S. Hill.
- Notes:
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- "First published 1994 (paperback), 2007 (digital edition) Republished 2017"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliography and index.
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- Available From:
- 01492932
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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