ISBN:
1921862718
,
9781921862717
Language:
English
Pages:
472 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
30 cm
Series Statement:
Terra Australis 34
Series Statement:
Terra Australis
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Peopled landscapes
DDC:
333.72099
Keywords:
Human ecology
;
Landscape assessment
;
Landscape changes
;
Human ecology
;
Nature Effect of human beings on
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Australien
;
Neuseeland
;
Tasmanien
;
Papua-Neuguinea
;
Umweltveränderung
;
Landschaftsentwicklung
;
Anthropogener Einfluss
;
Humanökologie
;
Biogeografie
;
Palökologie
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references
Description / Table of Contents:
a new microfossil indicator for the presence of humans / Mike Macphail, Mary Casey and Matthew Kelly -- Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate / Christian A. Kull and Haripriya Rangan -- Nature, culture and time: contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skåne, southern Sweden / Lesley Head and Joachinm Regnéll -- Biogeography and palaeoecology. The rise and fall of the genus Araucaria: a southern hemisphere climatic connection / Marie-Pierre Ledru and Janelle Stevenson -- When did the mistletoe family Loranthaceae become extinct in Tasmania? Review and conjecture / Mike Macphail ... [et al.] -- Wind v water: glacial maximum records from the Willandra Lakes / Jim M. Bowler ... [et al.] --^
Description / Table of Contents:
a multi-scale, multi-proxy assessment of the resilience of cool temperate rainforest to fire in Victoria's Central Highlands / Patrick J. Baker ... [et al.] -- Multi-disciplinary investigation of 19th century European settlement of the Willunga Plains, South Australia / Tim Denham ... [et al.] -- Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity / Cassandra Rowe --^
Description / Table of Contents:
the impact of Peter Kershaw on Australian quaternary science / Bruno David, Simon G. Haberle and Donald Walker -- Archaeology and perceptions of landscape. Hay Cave: a 30,000-year cultural sequence from the Mitchell-Palmer limestone zone, north Queensland, Australia / Harry Lourandos ... [et al.] -- An early-Holocene Aboriginal coastal landscape at Cape Duquesne, southwest Victoria, Australia / Thomas Richards -- Aboriginal exploitation of toxic nuts as a late-Holocene subsistence strategy in Australia's tropical rainforests / Åsa Ferrier and Richard Cosgrove -- Terrestrial engagements by terminal Lapita maritime specialists on the southern Papuan coast / Ian J. McNiven ... [et al.] -- Otoia, ancestral village of the Kerewo: modelling the historical emergence of Kerewo regional polities on the island of Goaribari, south coast of mainland Papua New Guinea / Bryce Barker ... [et al.] --^
Description / Table of Contents:
a quantified measure of annual precipitation / Chris S.M. Turney -- Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland conditions / Peter Gell -- Regional genetic differentiation in the spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus Gould) / Samantah Fox ... [et al.]
URL:
http://epress.anu.edu.au/?p=165471
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