Floristics and Plant Biodiversity of the Rainforests of the Wet Tropics

Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 123-132

  Metcalfe, Daniel J ^a,b   Ford, Andrew J ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Ecology and Management ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic modification of vegetation; Edaphic and topographic effects of vegetation; Future of Australian tropical rainforests; Queensland Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Regional Ecosystem (RE) framework; Wet Tropics bioregion mosaic of natural and human modified landscapes; Wet Tropics' rainforests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC MODIFICATION; QUEENSLAND; REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM (RE) FRAMEWORK; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; WET TROPICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

EID: 84885856532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300321.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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