| Main Title: |
Australian tropical rainforests : science - values -meaning / editors: L.J. Webb and J. Kikkawa. |
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| Author: |
Kikkawa, J. (Jiro), 1929-
Webb, L. J. (Leonard James), 1920-
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIRO)
ANZAAS. Congress (57th : 1987 : James Cook University of North Queensland)
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| Imprint: |
CSIRO, c1990. |
| Collation: |
ix, 185 p. : ill., maps, bib., index, hbk ; 29 cm. |
| Summary: |
Introduction / L.J. Webb -- The depths of time -- 1. Australian rainforests: the 100 million year record / E.M. Truswell -- 2. Directions and rates of rainforest processes / D. Walker -- 3. People and the rainforest: an archaeological perspective / N. Horsfall and J. Hall -- 4. Disturbance - the forest transformer / M.S. Hopkins -- 5. Vertebrates and successions / F. H. Crome -- Natural processes -- 6. Specialisation in the tropical rainforest / J. Kikkawa -- 7. The biological web - plant/animal interactions in the rainforest / R.E. Jones and F.H. Crome -- 8. Plant/insect interactions - food webs and breeding systems / D. Sands and S. House -- 9. Forest-floor decomposers / K.P. Plowman -- 10. Essential nutrient cycles / R.A. Congdon and D. Lamb -- Values and meaning -- 11. Beyond the forest / L.J. Webb -- 12. Values and uses: seeing the forest through different eyes / J. Davidson -- 13. Scientific objectivity and values / I. Lowe -- 14. Conserving wild nature: purpose and ethics / D.A. Ratcliffe / 15. Rainforest as metaphor: the search for public ethics in the Australian wet tropics / J.R. Engel -- 16. Comment on science, value and meaning / J. Wright -- Future perspectives -- 17. Thoughts on an agenda for scientific research / G.N. Harrington and D. Cassells -- 18. The political agenda / B.W. Davis -- 19. Nature's rights / M. Charlesworth. |
| Subject: |
Rain forests
Forests and forestry
Ecology
Land conservation
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| Series: |
Susan Crooke Memorial Collection
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| ISBN: |
0643050558 |
| Notes: |
"This book is based on contributions to a two-day symposium at the 57th ANZAAS Congress, Townsville, 24-28 August 1987 ..."
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