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xvi, 332 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 30 cm |
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Contents note continued: ANIMALS PROVIDING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES -- 7H.Ecosystem Services Of Digging Mammals -- ch. 8 Conservation Of The Kwongan Flora: Threats And Challenges -- ch. 9 Human Relationships With And Use Of Kwongkan Plants And Lands |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Kwongan, From Geology To Linguistics -- 1A.On The Origins, Geomorphology And Soils Of The Sandplains Of South-Western Australia -- 1B.Sandplain And Kwongkan: Historical Spellings, Meanings, Synonyms, Geography And Definition -- ch. 2 Biogeography Of Kwongan: Origins, Diversity, Endemism And Vegetation Patterns -- ch. 3 A Diverse Flora -- Species And Genetic Relationships -- ch. 4 Plant Mineral Nutrition -- ch. 5 Carbon And Water Relations -- ch. 6 Plants And Fire In Kwongan Vegetation -- ch. 7 Plant--Animal Interactions -- POLLINATION -- 7A.Evolution Of Pollination Strategies -- 7B.The Beguiling And The Warty -- Pollination Of Kwongan Orchids -- 7C.Pollination Vectors: Invertebrates -- 7D.Pollination Vectors: Vertebrates -- HERBIVORY -- 7E.The Honey Possum, Tarsipes Rostratus, A Keystone Species In The Kwongan -- 7F.Fluoroacetate, Plants, Animals And A Biological Arms Race -- 7G.You Are What You Eat: Plant--Insect Synergies In The Kwongan -- |
| Summary |
Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia: A global biodiversity hotspot has been assembled with current research and understanding about the south-western Australian flora, the greatest richness of which is on the sandplain, especially on the most nutrient-impoverished soils. The thirty-nine contributors include leading scientists and early-career researchers dealing with issues on the environment, biodiversity, speciation and phylogenetics, ecosystem composition and coevolution. To be able to conserve threatened species, the animals that depend upon them, and the habitats they live in, we need to understand their functioning in the past and present, to protect them for the future |
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Australian |
| Notes |
This is a thorough revision and expansion of Pate and Beard's 'Kwongan, plant life of the sandplain' (1984) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and indexes |
| Subject |
Botany -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Kwongan plants.
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Botany -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Kwongan.
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Moor ecology -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Kwongan -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Moor plants -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Plant ecology -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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Shrubland ecology -- Australia -- Western Australia.
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| Author |
Lambers, H., editor
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| LC no. |
2016427794 |
| ISBN |
1742585647 |
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9781742585642 |
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