Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes

by J Stevenson, M Prebble, S Haberle

Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1921666803
• ISBN13: 9781921666803
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Anu Press
• Length: 526 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.3" x 11.7"