Perfumed pineries: environmental history of Australia's Callitris forests

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CONTENTS: LIST OF AUTHORS, page vii. PREFACE, page ix. 1. Palynology of the perfumed pineries of arid South Australia / Jon Luly, page 1. 2. Callitris and the botanists / Sybil Jack, page 9. 3. A history of the wood anatomy of Callitris / Roger Heady, page 20. 4. Dendrochronology of Australian cypress pines / John Banks and Ian Pulsford, page 30. 5. A new technique in dendroecology using Callitris / Mathew Searson and Stuart Pearson, page 39. 6. Identifying a white pine-ironbark community from phytoliths / Diane M. Hart, page 48. 7. Assessing changes in cypress pine forests from old stumps / Ian Lunt, David Parker and Wayne Robinson, page 56. 8. Stump count analysis of the pre-European Pilliga forests / David Paull, page 63. 9. Soil, vegetation and landform in Pilliga East State Forest / Geoff Huffiphreys, Elizabeth Norris, Paul Hesse, Diane Hart, Peter Mitchell, Peter Walsh and Russell Field, page 71. 10. Pilliga landscapes, Quaternary environment and geomorphology / Paul Hesse and Geoff Humphreys, page 79. 11. Litterfall and decomposition in a white pine-ironbark community / Diane M. Hart, page 88. 12. Koala populations in the Pilliga forests / Rod Kavanagh and Elizabeth Barrott, page 93. 13. Floristic patterns in the Pilliga / Doug Binns and Doug Beckers, page 104. 14. The 'frontier': Callitris intratropica and landscape change / David Bowman, page 111. 15. Perfumed pine and the pioneers / Bob McKillop, page 117. 16. Recent disturbances to Callitris forests in Southern Queensland / Mark Harris and David Lamb, page 125. 17. Management plans for cypress forests / John Dargavel and Margaret Kowald, page 136. 18. Calculating sustained yields in New South Wales cypress forests, 1915 to 1951 / Andrew Deane, page 150. 19. A vanishing presence: Queensland forest heritage / David Cameron, page 159. 20. Disturbance history mapping in New South Wales / Pauline Curby, Michael O'Neill, Rhondda O'Neill and Patrick Tap, page 167. 21. Regulating Callitris populations: a tale of two pineries / James C. Noble, page 173. 22. The writing of A Million Wild Acres / Tom Griffiths, page 184. 23. Perfumed pines: the exploited and the exploiter / Eric Rolls, page I95. GLOSSARY, page 202 Show more