Altered ecologies : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes /
Altered ecologies : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes /
[edited by Simon Haberle, Janelle Stevenson and Matthew Prebble].
- 1 online resource (512 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Terra Australis ; 32 .
- Terra Australis ; 32. .
Festschrift in honor of Geoffrey Hope.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 / 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) / Jennifer Read [and others] -- A. Peter Kershaw [and others] -- J.M. Pugh and J. Shulmeister -- J.G. Luly [and others]. Observations on feeding frequencies among native and exotic birds and fruitbats at Erythrina variegata and Dysoxylum trees on American Samoa / 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 / Julie A. Sherman and Patricia L. Fall -- Richard T. Corlett -- Thomas E. Heinsohn -- Sandra Bowdler -- Ken Aplin, Fred Ford and Peter Hiscock. Holocene lowland vegetation change and human ecology in Manus Province, 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 / Matthew Prebble, Jean Kennedy and Wendy Southern -- Matthew Spriggs -- Patricia L. Fall -- William E. Boyd and Nigel Chang -- Susan Frawley and Sue O'Connor. 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 / 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 / Mike Macphail -- Ian Thomas, Phil Cullen and Michael-Shawn Fletcher -- Roger Good [and others] -- Jennie Whinam [and others] -- Janelle Stevenson [and others]. Comparative AMS 14C dating of plant macrofossils, beetles and pollen preparations from two Late Pleistocene sites in southeastern Australia / 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 / Nick Porch, A. Peter Kershaw -- Andrew H. Thornhill -- Kathryn H. Taffs [and others] -- Rachel Nanson -- Michael L. Prentice and S. Glidden -- R. Michael Bourke.
English.
9781921666810 1921666811
22573/ctt236r8z JSTOR
Human ecology--Australasia.
Paleoecology--Australasia.
Biogeography--Australasia.
Environmental archaeology--Australasia.
Landscape assessment--Australasia.
Landscape changes--Australasia.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Australasia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Archaeology.
Biogeography.
Environmental archaeology.
Human ecology.
Landscape assessment.
Landscape changes.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Paleoecology.
Australasia.
Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Electronic book.
GF13.3.A788
333.72099
Festschrift in honor of Geoffrey Hope.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 / 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) / Jennifer Read [and others] -- A. Peter Kershaw [and others] -- J.M. Pugh and J. Shulmeister -- J.G. Luly [and others]. Observations on feeding frequencies among native and exotic birds and fruitbats at Erythrina variegata and Dysoxylum trees on American Samoa / 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 / Julie A. Sherman and Patricia L. Fall -- Richard T. Corlett -- Thomas E. Heinsohn -- Sandra Bowdler -- Ken Aplin, Fred Ford and Peter Hiscock. Holocene lowland vegetation change and human ecology in Manus Province, 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 / Matthew Prebble, Jean Kennedy and Wendy Southern -- Matthew Spriggs -- Patricia L. Fall -- William E. Boyd and Nigel Chang -- Susan Frawley and Sue O'Connor. 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 / 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 / Mike Macphail -- Ian Thomas, Phil Cullen and Michael-Shawn Fletcher -- Roger Good [and others] -- Jennie Whinam [and others] -- Janelle Stevenson [and others]. Comparative AMS 14C dating of plant macrofossils, beetles and pollen preparations from two Late Pleistocene sites in southeastern Australia / 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 / Nick Porch, A. Peter Kershaw -- Andrew H. Thornhill -- Kathryn H. Taffs [and others] -- Rachel Nanson -- Michael L. Prentice and S. Glidden -- R. Michael Bourke.
English.
9781921666810 1921666811
22573/ctt236r8z JSTOR
Human ecology--Australasia.
Paleoecology--Australasia.
Biogeography--Australasia.
Environmental archaeology--Australasia.
Landscape assessment--Australasia.
Landscape changes--Australasia.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Australasia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Archaeology.
Biogeography.
Environmental archaeology.
Human ecology.
Landscape assessment.
Landscape changes.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Paleoecology.
Australasia.
Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Electronic book.
GF13.3.A788
333.72099