Discover Kangaroo Island's Native Plants
Discover Kangaroo Island's Native Plants

Author: Beverley Overton

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780646585765

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The aim of this book is to help readers discover, enjoy and protect the beauty and diversity of native plants and wild flowers of Kangaroo Island. This book covers 396 species in pictorial form, each with a brief description and basic details of its main habitat on Kangaroo Island.

Natural History of Kangaroo Island
Natural History of Kangaroo Island

Author: Margaret Davies

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Second edition of a natural history study of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, first published 1979. Covers geology, climate, soils, vegetation, terrestrial and marine mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fishes and fossils. New edition contains up-to-date mapping and several chapters have been updated. Issues of introduced species and challenges to environmental management are discussed. Includes maps, graphs, tables, photos, bibliography and index. Editors are from the Royal Society of South Australia.

Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island

Author: Deirdre Langeland

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13:

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As morning comes to Kangaroo Island following a thunderstorm, a mother kangaroo finds her lost baby and a burned eucalyptus tree sprouts buds and becomes a new home for animals.

History of the Australian Vegetation
History of the Australian Vegetation

Author: Robert S. Hill

Publisher: University of Adelaide Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 1925261476

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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.