Altered ecologies : : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes / / edited by Simon Haberle, Janelle Stevenson, Matthew Prebble.

• Superior document: Terra Australis ; Volume 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Haberle, Simon,; Stevenson, Janelle,; Prebble, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra : : ANU Press,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Terra Australis ; Volume 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal d...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. A D-section and a tin whistle: A tribute to Prof. Geoff Hope
• Ecosystem responses to long and short term climate change
• 2. The contrasting biology of tropical versus temperate Nothofagus species and its relevance to interpretations of Cenozoic rainforest history in southeast Australia
• 3. Beneath the peat: A refined pollen record from an interstadial at Caledonia Fen, highland eastern Victoria, Australia
• 4. The vegetation cover of New Zealand during the Last Glacial Maximum: Do pollen records under-represent woody vegetation?
• 5. Holocene vegetation history of a high-elevation (1200 m) site in the Lake Heron Basin, inland Canterbury, New Zealand
• 6. Last Glacial Maximum habitat change and its effects on the grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825)
• 7. Observations on feeding frequencies among native and exotic birds and fruit bats at Erythrina variegata and Dysoxylum trees on American Samoa
• Human colonisation and ecological impacts
• 8. Megafaunal extinctions and their consequences in the tropical Indo-Pacific
• 9. Marsupials as introduced species: Long-term anthropogenic expansion of the marsupial frontier and its implications for zoogeographic interpretation
• 10. The empty coast: Conditions for human occupation in southeast Australia during the late Pleistocene
• 11. Early Holocene human occupation and environment of the Southeast Australian Alps: New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales
• 12. Holocene lowland vegetation change and human ecology in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
• 13. Geomorphic and archaeological consequences of human arrival and agricultural expansion on Pacific islands: A reconsideration after 30 years of debate
• 14. Pollen evidence for plant introductions in a Polynesian tropical island ecosystem, Kingdom of Tonga
• 15. 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
• 16. 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
• 17. 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
• 18. Ecological drift or stable fire cycles in Tasmania: A resolution?
• 19. Restoration of mires of the Australian Alps following the 2003 wildfires
• 20. 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
• 21. The archaic and puzzling record of Lake Xere Wapo, New Caledonia
• 22. Comparative AMS 14C dating of plant macrofossils, beetles and pollen preparations from two Late Pleistocene sites in southeastern Australia
• 23. Can Myrtaceae pollen of the Holocene from Bega Swamp (New South Wales, Australia) be compared with extant taxa?
• 24. The evolution of a coastal peatland at Byron Bay, Australia: Multi-proxy evidence from the microfossil record
• 25. Development of mountain peatlands in stable equilibrium with open-channel hydraulics: A new concept in peatland formation and maintenance
• 26. Glacier crippling and the rise of the snowline in western New Guinea (Papua Province, Indonesia) from 1972 to 2000
• 27. Altitudinal limits of 230 economic crop species in Papua New Guinea.