History of the Australian vegetation : : Cretaceous to recent / / edited by Robert S. Hill.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hill, Robert S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 433 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

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 evo...

Table of Contents

• The Australian fossil plant record : an introduction / R.S. Hill
• Maps of late Mesozoic-Cenozoic Gondwana break-up : some palaeogeographical implications / G.E. Wilford and P.J. Brown
• The background : 144 million years of Australian palaeoclimate and palaeogeography / P.G. Quilty
• Palaeobotanical evidence for Tertiary climates / D.R. Greenwood
• Landscapes of Australia : their nature and evolution / G. Taylor
• Patterns in the history of Australia's mammals and inferences about palaeohabitats / M. Archer, S.J. Hand & H. Godthelp
• Australian Tertiary phytogeography : evidence from palynology / H.A. Martin
• Cretaceous vegetation : the microfossil record / M.E. Dettmann
• Cretaceous vegetation : the macrofossil record / J.G. Douglas
• Early Tertiary vegetation : evidence from spores and pollen / M.K. Macphail [and others]
• The early Tertiary macrofloras of continental Australia / D.C. Christophel
• Cenozoic vegetation in Tasmania : macrofossil evidence / R.J. Carpenter, R.S. Hill & G.J. Jordan
• The Neogene : a period of transition / A.P. Kershaw, H.A. Martin & J.R.C. McEwen Mason.