Born to burn
Article Abstract:
Flammability is most likely to benefit plants that can form communities of closely spaced individuals able to advance in broad fronts. However, aborigines people managed the land with fire because flammable vegetation had already evolved and spread over much of the Australian landscape as the climate dried.
Publisher: Australian Museum
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2004
Evaluation, Forest fires
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2004
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Where leaf-tails lurk
Article Abstract:
Leaf-tails are spectacular as they have prickly spade-shaped tails that afford superb camouflage against lichen-dotted logs and rocks. The original leaf-tail genus is split in three in order to reflect different evolutionary lineages.
Publisher: Australian Museum
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2003
Science & research, Research, History, Forest fauna, Forest animals, Camouflage (Biology)
Publication Name: Nature Australia
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 1324-2598
Year: 2003
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Subjects list: Australia
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