Updated:  25 February 2008

Historical Atlas of Australian Resources Series - Vegetation

This atlas volume summarises historic geographical knowledge about Australia's vegetation and complements the other environmental and resource topics in the Atlas of Australia Resource Series.

Historical Atlas of Australian Resources - Vegetation (1990 edition)

Vegetation
ChapterMaps and page numbers[Printable]
Australian vegetation Title page, preface and contents
(pages 1,2,3)
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4.8MB
Introduction
Map: Australia's vegetation in the 1780s
Map: Australia's vegetation in the 1980s
(pages 6,7)
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4.3Kb
Influences on vegetation
Map: Seasonal vegetation change
Map: Major floristic types
(pages 8,9)
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4.8MB
Classifying Australia's vegetation
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2.7MB
Pictorial key to the structural forms of Australian Vegetation
(page 11) PDF logo image
2.5MB
Mapping a continent's vegetation
(pages 12,13) PDF logo image
5MB
Australia's plant symbols
(pages 14,15) PDF logo image
4.6MB
The variety of vegetation types
(page 17) PDF logo image
3.2MB
Tall trees
Map: Tall open forest
(pages 18,19)
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5MB
Medium trees
Map: Rainforest
Map: Moist tropical forest
Map: Australia's tropical World Heritage rainforest
(pages 20,21)
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5MB
Open forest
(pages 22,23) PDF logo image
5MB
Woodland
(pages 24,25) PDF logo image
5.2MB
Open woodland
(pages 26,27) PDF logo image
5MB
Low trees
Map: Low closed forest
Map: Low open forest
(pages 28,29)
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5MB
Low woodland
pages 30,31) PDF logo image
5MB
Low open woodland
(pages 32,33) PDF logo image
5MB
Tall shrubs
Map: Open scrub
Map: Tall shrubland
Map: Mallee
Map: Mulga
(pages 34,35,36,37)
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9.6MB
Tall open shrubland
(pages 38,39) PDF logo image
5MB
Low shrubs
Map: Heath
Map: Low shrubland
Map: Chenopod shrubland
Map: Low open shrubland
(pages 40,41,42,43)
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10MB
Grasses and graminoids
Map: Spinifex
Map: Grasslands
Map: Mitchell grass
(pages 44,45,46,47)
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9.8MB
Other herbaceous plants
Map: Introduced pastures
Map: Pasture and herbfield
(pages 48,49)
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5MB
Other vegetation
(pages 50,51) PDF logo image
5.8MB
200 years of change
Photos of Australian vegetation
(pages 52,53)
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6MB
Major vegetation change
Map: Vegetation clearance
Map: Major vegetation changes
(pages 54,55)
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4.5MB
Forest change
Map: Brigalow
Map: Plantation forests
Map: Dieback
(pages 56,57)
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4.8MB
Woodland change
(page 58) PDF logo image
2.5MB
Shrubland change
Map: Livestock and rabbits
(page 59)
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2.4MB
The new vegetation Map: Grass cover
(pages 60,61)
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5MB
Index of common names References and further reading
Acknowledgement
Folded 1:5 million scale maps
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5.9MB

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