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The Grasses of the Big Scrub District of North-eastern New South Wales : a sedimentary record of late Holocene grasslands in a subtropical forest landscape

Auteurs :
BOYD, W.E.
STUBBS, B.J.
AVERILL, C.

Description :
This paper records sedimentary data which indicate that at least part of the Wilsons River floodplain, on the margins of the subtropical rainforest known as the Big Scrub, has a long and certainly pre-European history of relative treelessness. Despite a general presumption that this lowland subtropical region was completely forested prior to European settlement, recent historical research has indicated that certain areas were naturally open. The data reported here, a fossil pollen record and one radiocarbon date, reinforces that information for one type of locality, providing an initial indication of time depth.


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Australian Geographer, issn : 0004-9182, 1999, vol. 30, n°. 3, p. 331-336, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 10 ref.

Date :
1999

Editeur :
Pays édition : Australie, Sydney, Geographical Society of New South Wales

Langue :
Anglais
Droits :
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