History of the Australian Vegetation
Cretaceous to Recent
edited by Robert S. Hill
No longer available in print
FREE | 2017 | Ebook (PDF) |听978-1-925261-47-9听| 443 pp
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Chapter details
Introduction to the 2017 edition
R. S. Hill
顿翱滨:听1. The Australian fossil plant record: an introduction
R. S. Hill
顿翱滨:听2. Maps of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Gondwana break-up: some palaeogeographical implications
G. E. Wilford & P. J. Brown
顿翱滨:听3. The background: 144 million years of Australian palaeoclimate and palaeogeography
P. G. Quilty
顿翱滨:听4. Palaeobotanical evidence for Tertiary climates
D. R. Greenwood
顿翱滨:听5. Landscapes of Australia: their nature and evolution
G. Taylor
顿翱滨:听6. Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats
M. Archer, S. J. Hand & H. Godthelp
顿翱滨:听7. Australian Tertiary phytogeography: evidence from palynology
H. A. Martin
顿翱滨:听8. Cretaceous vegetation: the microfossil record
M. E. Dettmann
顿翱滨:听9. Cretaceous vegetation: the macrofossil record
J. G. Douglas
顿翱滨:听10. Early Tertiary vegetation: evidence from spores and pollen
M. K. Macphail, N. F. Alley, E. M. Truswell & I. R. K. Sluiter
顿翱滨:听11. The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia
D. C. Christophel
顿翱滨:听12. Cenozoic vegetation in Tasmania: macrofossil evidence
R. J. Carpenter, R. S. Hill & G. J. Jordan
顿翱滨:听13. The Neogene: a period of transition
A. P. Kershaw, H. A. Martin & J. R. C. McEwen Mason
顿翱滨:听14. The Oligo-Miocene coal floras of southeastern Australia
D. T. Blackburn & I. R. K. Sluiter
顿翱滨:听15. Quaternary vegetation
G. S. Hope
顿翱滨:听16. The history of selected Australian taxa
R. S. Hill
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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.
About the editor
听is former Executive Dean, Faculty of Sciences at the 成人大片. He is a graduate of the 成人大片. He completed his Ph.D. on Tertiary plant macrofossils in 1981, and his D.Sc. on the interaction between climate change and the evolution of the living Australian vegetation in 1997. He has held positions at James Cook University, the University of Tasmania and the 成人大片. During his career he has won many awards including the Clarke and Burbidge Medals for his research into the impact of long-term climate change on the evolution of Australian vegetation. He is currently Editor in Chief of the听Australian Journal of Botany.