Download or read book The Alpine Flora of New Guinea written by Pieter Royen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alpine Flora of New Guinea written by Pieter Royen and published by Lubrecht & Cramer, Limited. This book was released on 1979 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alpine Flora of New Guinea General part written by Pieter Royen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trees of New Guinea written by Timothy M. A. Utteridge and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world with an extremely rich tree flora of up to 5,000 species. Trees of New Guinea details each of the 693 plant genera with arborescent members found in New Guinea. The entire New Guinea region is covered, including the West Papua and Papua Provinces of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the surrounding islands such as New Britain, New Ireland and Bougainville. The book follows contemporary classifications and is richly illustrated with line drawings and photographs throughout. Each group has a family description and key to the New Guinea tree genera, followed by a description of each genus, with notes on taxonomy, distribution, ecology and diagnostic characters.Trees of New Guinea is the essential companion to anyone studying or working in the region, including botanists, conservation workers, ecologists and zoologists.
Download or read book Flora and Fauna of Alpine Australasia written by Bryan A Barlow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to the Alpine and Subalpine Flora of Mount Jaya written by R. J. Johns and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2006 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on five expeditions to the area by Kew and its Indonesian collaborators, and incorporating records from previous expeditions, A Guide to the Subalpine and Alpine Flora of Mount Jaya is a comprehensive record of the high elevation flora of the tallest mountain in South-East Asia, and an indispensable resource for everyone with an interest in the ecological management of New Guinea and the Lorentz World Heritage Area in particular. - Concise descriptions of all species of flowering plants, ferns and gymnosperms growing above 2,800 metres, with notes on their ecology, distribution and conservation status - Line drawings illustrating an example of each genus - More than 70 colour photographs of plants and their habitats - A succinct introduction to the region's geology, climate and geomorphology
Download or read book Kosciuszko Alpine Flora written by AB Costin and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist Scholarly Reference section - The Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 2001 Around Australia’s highest mountain lies a rare ecosystem, an alpine area of outstanding beauty and diversity, strikingly different from other alpine ecosystems of the world but with common features. Kosciuszko Alpine Flora describes and illustrates the area’s 212 flowering plants and ferns, of which 21 are endemic. It discusses the geological and human history of the area, the life-forms and habitats of the plants, and explores the various plant communities and their environmental relationships. The book contains identification keys, detailed descriptions, and distribution and habitat notes for each species. Superb colour photographs show details of flowers, fruit, foliage, and ecology.
Download or read book Kosciuszko Alpine Flora Field Edition written by CJ Totterdell and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around Australia’s highest mountain lies a rare ecosystem, an alpine area of outstanding beauty and diversity, strikingly different from other alpine ecosystems of the world but with common features. Kosciuszko Alpine Flora describes and illustrates the area’s 212 flowering plants and ferns, of which 21 are endemic. It discusses the geological and human history of the area, the life-forms and habitats of the plants, and explores the various plant communities and their environmental relationships. Ideal for the tourist or general interest reader, this field edition excludes the detailed taxonomic section.
Download or read book New Guinea Vegetation written by K. Paijmans and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biogeography of Australasia written by Michael Heads and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating analysis of the main patterns of distribution and evolution of the Australasian biota.
Download or read book Biogeography and Ecology of New Guinea written by J.L. Gressit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. L. Gressitt New Guinea is a fantastic island, unique and fascinating. It is an area of incredible variety of geomorphology, biota, peoples, languages, history, tradi tions and cultures. Diversity is its prime characteristic, whatever the subject of interest. To a biogeographer it is tantalizing, as well as confusing or frustrating when trying to determine the history of its biota. To an ecologist, and to all biologists, it is a happy hunting ground of endless surprises and unanswered questions. To a conservationist it is like a dream come true, a "flash-back" of a few centuries, as well as a challenge for the future. New Guinea is so special that it is hard to compare it with other islands or tropical areas. It is something apart, with its very complicated history (chapters I: 2-4, II: 1-4, III: I, VI: I, 2). It is partly old but to a great extent very young, yet extremely rich and complex. It has biota of different sources - to such a degree that it is still disputed in this volume as to what Realm it belongs to: the Paleotropical or Notogaean (Australian); or what Region: Oriental, "Oceanic," Papuan or Australian. The terms Papuasian, Indo-Australian and Australasian also have been applied to the area.
Download or read book The Biology of Alpine Habitats written by Laszlo Nagy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have shaped them over both ecological and evolutionary timescales. The broad geographic coverage helps synthesise common features whilst revealing differences in the world's major alpine systems from the Arctic to the Tropics. The words "barren" and "wasteland" have often been applied to describe landscapes beyond the treeline. However, a closer look reveals a large diversity of habitats, assemblages and individual taxa, largely connected to topographic diversity within individual alpine regions. The book considers habitat-forming factors (landforms, energy and climate, hydrology, soils, and vegetation) individually, as well as their composite impacts on habitat characteristics. Evolution and population processes are examined in the context of the responsiveness / resilience of alpine habitats to global change. Finally, a critical assessment of the potential impacts of climate change, atmospheric pollutants and land use is made and related to the management and conservation options available for these unique habitats.
Download or read book Summaries of Projects Completed written by National Science Foundation (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orchids of Papua New Guinea written by Andreé Millar and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1999 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papua New Guinea''s variations of climate and habitat support a diverse orchid population. This book offers an introduction to the orchids of Papua New Guinea.'
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the World s Biomes written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 3542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of the World’s Biomes is a unique, five volume reference that provides a global synthesis of biomes, including the latest science. All of the book's chapters follow a common thematic order that spans biodiversity importance, principal anthropogenic stressors and trends, changing climatic conditions, and conservation strategies for maintaining biomes in an increasingly human-dominated world. This work is a one-stop shop that gives users access to up-to-date, informative articles that go deeper in content than any currently available publication. Offers students and researchers a one-stop shop for information currently only available in scattered or non-technical sources Authored and edited by top scientists in the field Concisely written to guide the reader though the topic Includes meaningful illustrations and suggests further reading for those needing more specific information
Download or read book Flora of Australia written by Australian Biological Resources Study and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2002 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Poaceae (grasses). Essays review Australian research on phylogeny, classification, anatomy, physiology, ecology, palaeobotany, and biogeography of Australian grasses. There is also a detailed synopsis of the economic attributes of grasses on a genus by genus basis.
Download or read book Reconstructing the Tree of Life written by Trevor R. Hodkinson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To document the world's diversity of species and reconstruct the tree of life we need to undertake some simple but mountainous tasks. Most importantly, we need to tackle species rich groups. We need to collect, name, and classify them, and then position them on the tree of life. We need to do this systematically across all groups of organisms and b
