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PUBLICATIONS - LEONARD JAMES WEBB

 

SCIENTIFIC ECOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS

[Environmental studies in Australian rain forests I-V, 312 pp. Ph.D. thesis,
University of Queensland, 1956. Unpublished.]

WEBB, L.J. 1954.
Aluminium accumulation in the Australian-New Guinea flora. Aust. J. Bot. 2: 176-96.

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1957.
Ecological and other evidence for soil inheritance at Childers, S. Qld. Aust. J. Sci. 20: 62-3.

WEBB, L.J., 1957.
Catchment deterioration - a combined agricultural and forestry problem. J. Aust. Inst. Agric. Sci. 23: 251-2.

WEBB, L.J., 1958.
Cyclones as an ecological factor in tropical lowland rainforest, North Queensland, Aust. J. Bot. 6: 220-8.

WEBB, L.J., 1958.
Studies of rain forest vegetation in Australia. Proc. Kandy Symposium, March 1956, UNESCO, 171-4.

WEBB, L.J., 1958.
Recent studies in tropical rain forest, North Queensland. Proc. Tijiawi Symposium, UNESCO, 240-4.

WEBB, L.J., 1959.
A physiognomic classification of Australian rain forests. J. Ecology 47:551-70.

WEBB, L.J., 1960.
A new attempt to classify Australian rain forests. Silva Fennica 105: 98-104; International Society for Tropical Ecology Bulletin 5(l): 76-82.

CANNON, J. R. , CORBETT, N. H. , HAYDOCK, K. P. , TRACEY, J. G. and WEBB, L. J ., 1961.
"Antibiotic Effects" in Plant Communities. Nature 190 (4771): 189-90.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G. and HAYDOCK, K.P., 1961.
The toxicity of Eremophila mitchellii Benth. leaves in relation to the establishment of adjacent herbs. Aust. J. Sci. 24: 244-5.

CANNON, J. R. , CORBETT, N. H. , HAYDOCK. K. P. , TRACEY, J. G. and WEBB, L. J. , 1962.
An investigation of the effect of the dehydroangustione present in the leaf litter of Backhousia angustifolia on the germination of Araucaria cunninghamii - an experimental approach to a problem in rainforest ecology. Aust. J. Bot. 10: 119-28.

WEBB, L.J., 1964.
An historical interpretation of the grass balds of the Bunya Mountains, South Queensland. Ecology 45: 159-62.

WEBB, L.J., 1964.
National Parks and sanctuaries and the conservation of living space for native flora and fauna. Proc. Roy. Soc. Old 75: 81-2.

WEBB, L.J., 1965.
The influence of soil parent materials on the nature and distribution of rain forests in South Queensland. Proc. Symposium on Ecological Research in Humid Tropics, Vegetatio, pp 1-14, Kuching, Sarawak - July 1963 (UNESCO Science Co-operation Office for Southeast Asia, Jakarta).

WEBB, L.J., and TRACEY, J.G., 1965.
Current quantitative floristic studies in tropical rain forests, North Queensland. Proc. Symposium on Ecological Research in Humid Tropics, Vegetatio, pp. 257-61, Kuching, Sarawak - July 1963 (UNESCO Science Co-operation Office for Southeast Asia, Jakarta).

WEBB, J.L., 1966.
The identification and conservation of habitat-types in the wettropical lowlands, North Queensland. Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld. 75, 59-86.

WEBB, L.J., 1966.
The role of soil science in relation to forestry. Review paper in Proc. Aust. Soil Sci. Conference, Univ. of Qld., Brisbane, May 1966, pp.16-20.

WEBB, L.J., 1966.
An ecological comparison of forest-fringe grassland habitats in eastern Australia and eastern Brazil. Proc. IX Internat. Grassld Congr. Brazil, pp.321-30.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., and HAYDOCK, K.P., 1967.
A factor toxic to seedlings of the same species associated with living roots of the non-gregarious subtropical rain forest tree Grevillea robusta. J. Appl. Ecol. 4: 13-25.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., WILLIAMS, W.T. and LANCE, G.N., 1967.
Studies in the numerical analysis of complex rain forest communities. Comparison of methods applicable to site-species data. J. Ecol. 55: 171-91.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., WILLIAMS, W.T. and LANCE, G.N., 1967.
Studies in the numerical analysis of complex rain forest communities. II. The problem of species sampling. J. Ecol. 55: 525-38.

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1967.
An ecological guide to new planting areas and site potential for Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii Ait.) Aust. For. 31: 224-39.

KIKKAWA, J. and WEBB, L.J., 1967.
Niche occupation by birds and the structural classification of forest habitats in the wet tropics, North Queensland. XIV IUFRO Congress, September 1967, Munich, pp. 467-82.

WEBB, L.J., 1968.
Biological aspects of forest management. Proc. Ecol. Soc. Aust. 3: 91-5.

WEBB, L.J., 1968.
Environmental relationships of the structural types of Australian rain forest vegetation. Ecology 49: 296-311.

WILLIAMS, W.T., LANCE, G.N., WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G. and DALE, M.B., 1969.
Studies in the numerical analysis of complex rainforest communities. III. The analysis of successional data. J. Ecol. 57: 516-35.

WILLIAMS, W.T. , LANCE, G.N., WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G. and CONNELL, J.H., 1969.
Studies in the numerical analysis of complex rainforest communities. A method for the elucidation of small-scale forest pattern. J. Ecol. 57: 635-54.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., WILLIAMS, W.T. and LANCE, G.N., 1969.
The pattern of mineral return in leaf litter of three subtropical Australian forests. Aust. For. 33: 99-110.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
Edaphic differentiation of some forest types in eastern Australia. II.
Soil chemical factors. J. Ecol. 57: 817-30.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, d.G., WILLIAMS, W.T. and LANCE, G.N., 1970.
Studies in the numerical analysis of complex rainforest communities. A comparison of the properties of floristic and physiognomic-structural data. J. Ecol. 58: 203-232.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., WILLIAMS, W.T. and LANCE, G.N., 1971.
Prediction of agricultural potential from intact forest vegetation. J. Appl. Ecol. 8: 99-121.

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1972.
An ecological comparison of vegetation communities on each side of Torres Strait, pp.109-130, In: Bridge and Barrier: the natural and cultural history of Torres Strait (ed. D. Walker) ANU Research School of Pacific Studies, Publn BG/3, Canberra.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1972.
Regeneration and pattern in the subtropical rainforest. J. Ecol. 60: 675-95.

WILLIAMS, W.T., LANCE, G.N., WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1973.
Studies in the numerical analysis of complex rainforest communities. Models for the classification of quantitative data. J. Ecol. 61: 47-70.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., KIKKAWA, J. and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1973.
Techniques for selection and allocating land for nature conservation in Australia, pp. 39-52, In: Nature Conservation in the Pacific. (Eds. A.B. Costin and R.H. Groves). (Australian National University Press)

KIKKAWA, J., WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1974.
A multidisciplinary project to establish criteria for selection and management of national parks in North Queensland, pp. 365-374, In: Vol 1, Working Papers, Seventh Triennial Conference, Institute of Foresters of Aust., Caloundra, Queensland.

WEBB, L.J., 1974.
The significance of the tropical rainforests, pp. 40-43. CSIRO Divisionof Plant Industry Annual report, 1974, Canberra.

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1975.
The Cooloola rainforests. Proc. Ecol. Soc. Aust. 9: 317-21.

DALE, M.B. and WEBB, L.J., 1975.
Numerical methods for the establishment of associations. Vegetatio 30: 77-87.

TRACEY, J.G. and WEBB, L.J., 1975.
Key to the vegetation of the humid tropical region of North Queensland, with 15 maps at 1:100,000 scale. (CSIRO Long Pocket Laboratories,Indooroopilly, Queensland).

EVERIST, S.L. and WEBB, L.J., 1975.
Two communities of urgent concern in Queensland: Mitchell Grass and Tropical Closed Forests, pp. 39-52, In: A National System of Ecological Reserves in Australia (ed. F. Fenner) . Aust. Acad. Sci. Report No. 19, Canberra.

WEBB. L.J., TRACEY, J.G. and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1976.
The value of structural features in tropical forest typology. Aust. J.Ecol. 1: 3-28.

HOPKINS, M.S., KIKKAWA, J., GRAHAM, A.W., TRACEY, J.G. and WEBB, L.J., 1976.
An ecological basis for the management of rainforest, pp.57-66 In: The         Border Ranges: a land use conflict in regional perspective. (Royal Society, Brisbane, Queensland).

KIKKAWA, J. and WEBB, L.J., 1976.
Identif ication and classif ication of wildlife habitats, pp. 744-62, In: Proc. XVI IUFRO World Congress, Division 1, Norway 1976.

WEBB, L.J., 1977.
Ecological considerations and safeguards in the modern use of tropical lowland rainforests as a source of pulpwood: example, the Madang area, Papua New Guinea, p. 36. (Office of Environment and Conservation, Waigani, Papua New Guinea).

WEBB, L.J., DALE, M.B., TRACEY, J.G. and KIKKAWA, J., 1977.
Structural classification as a method to predict site potential in the development and conservation of tropical humid forest lands, pp. 132-48, In: Trans. Internat. MAB-IUFRO Workshop on tropical rainforest ecosystems research, Hamburg-Reinbek, 12-17 May 1977. (Special Report 1, Chair of World Forestry, Hamburg-Reinbek).

WEBB, L.J., 1978.
A structural comparison of New Zealand and south-east Australian rainforests and their tropical affinities. Aust. J. Ecol. 3: 7-21.

WEBB, L.J., 1978.
A general classification of Australian rainforests. Australian Plants 9 (76): 349-363.

TRACEY, J.G. and WEBB, L.J., 1978.
The vegetation of Hinchinbrook Island. Queensland Naturalist 22: 31-37.

WEBB, L.J. and HIGGINS, H.G., 1978.
The impact of the "new ecology" on the development of the tropical rainforest. Special Paper, Item 20, Eighth World Forestry Congress., Jakarta 16-28 October 1978.

KIKKAWA, J. and WEBB, L.J., 1978.
Classification of wildlife habitats for forestry. II. Congressus Theriologicus Internationalis, 20-27 June 1978, Brno Czechoslovakia. (Abstracts of papers.)

WEBB. L.J., 1979.
Ecology of Tropical Trees: Book Review. Science 205: 640-41.

WEBB, L.J., 1979.
An Ecological Study. Book Review. Science 205: 1369-70.

WEBB, L.J., 1980.
The special problem of tropical forest classification, pp. 54-65, In: The IBP Survey of Conservation Sites: An Experimental Study (Ed. A.R. Clapham) (Cambridge University Press).

WEBB, L.J., 1980.
After-dinner peroration: An ecologist ensnared by values. pp. 95-99. In: Contemporary Cape York Peninsula (Eds. N.C. Stevens and A. Bailey) Roy. Soc. Qld. St. Lucia, Australia.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G., HAMILTON, L.S., KIKKAWA, J. and DALE, M.B., 1980.
Assessment of site potential from vegetation and landscape features in the wet tropics, In: Tropical Ecology and Development Part I. pp. 15-31. (Ed. J.I. Furtado). Internat. Soc. Tropical Ecology, Kuala Lumpur.

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1981.
Australian rainforests: patterns and change, In: Ecological Biogeography of Australia pp. 607-94. Ed. A. Keast (W. Junk, TheHague).

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1981.
The rainforests of northern Australia. In: Australian Vegetation, pp. 67-101. Ed. R.H. Groves (Cambridge University Press).

KIKKAWA, J., WEBB, L.J., DALE, M.B., MONTEITH, G.B., TRACEY, J.G. and
WILLIAMS, W.T., 1981.
Gradients and boundaries of monsoon forests in Australia. Proc. Ecol. Soc. Aust. 11: 39-52.

SMITINAND, T., WEBB, L.J., SANTISUK, T. and TRACEY, J.G., 1982.
A co-operative attempt to compare the habitats of primary forest in Thailand and Northern Australia. In: Proceedinqs of Workshop on Ecological Basis for Rational Resource Utilisation in the Humid Tropics of South-East Asia. pp.77-107. Eds. K. Awang, S.L. Lee, F.S. Lai, A.R.M. Derus and S.A. Abod. (Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang.)

WEBB, L.J., 1982.
Conversion of tropical moist forests, by N. Myers. Book Review. For. Ecology and Management, 4: 393-95.

WEBB, L.J., 1982.
The human face in tropical forest management. In: Socio-economic Effects and Constraints in Tropical Forest Management pp. l59-175. Ed. E.G. Hallsworth. (John Wiley)

WEBB, L.J., 1983.
Ecological Values of the Tropical Rainforest Resource. Macleay Memorial Lecture. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, 106: 263-274.

WEBB, L.J., 1983.
Forest ecology and community interests. pp. 24-37. In: Forestry and Forest Products: Research Present and Future: . CSIRO Executive Seminar, 11 November 1983, Canberra.

HOPKINS, M.S., KIKKAWA, J. and WEBB, L.J., 1984.
Survey methods for nature conservation - rainforests. pp. 37-56. In: "Survey methods for nature conservation". Vol. l. Proc. Workshop Adelaide University, Aug-Sept 1983. Eds. K.M. Myers, C.R. Margules and I. Musto. CSIRO Div. Water and Land Resources, Canberra.

WEBB, L.J., 1984.
Review of "The Ecology of a Tropical Forest: Seasonal Rhythms and Long-Term Changes", 1983. Forest Ecologv and Manaqement.

CONNELL, J.H., TRACEY, J.G. and WEBB, L.J., 1984.
Compensatory recruitment, growth and mortality as factors maintaining rainforest tree diversity. Ecological Monographs 54: 141-164.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G. and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1984.
A floristic framework of Australian rainforests. Aust. J. Ecol. 9 : 169-198.

WEBB, L.J., 1984.
Nature Conservation. In: The Brigalow Belt of Australia (Ed. A. Bailey) pp. 125-129. Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld, Brisbane.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G. and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1985.
Australian tropical forests in a southeast Asian context: a numerical method for site comparison. Proc. Ecol. Soc. Aust. 13: 269-76.

WEBB, L.J., HOPKINS, M.S., YOUNG, P.A.R., KIKKAWA, J. and LOVEJOY, T.E., 1985.
Conservation of tropical rainforest isolates. pp. 55-68. In: The Future of Rain Forests in South East Asia. (Ed. J. Davidson, Tho Yow Pong and M. Bijleveld) . Commission on Ecology Papers No.10. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

WEBB, L.J., 1985.
Rain Forests. Book Review. Science 228: 874-75.

WEBB, L.J., TRACEY, J.G. and JESSUP. L.W., 1986.
Recent ecological evidence for autochthony of Australian tropical and subtropical rainforest elements. Telopea 2 (6): 575-89.

WEBB, L.J. and KIKKAWA, J., 1986.
Evaluating Wildlife Habitats in Tropical Forests. IUFRO XV World Congress. Ljubljana, Sept. 1986, Forests 18th IUFRO World Congress, Division 1, Vol. II, Forest Environment and Silviculture, pp. 649-660. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia Sept. 1986.

DUNLOP, C.R. and WEBB, L.J., 1991.
Flora and Vegetation, pp. 41-60, In: Monsoonal Australia: Landscape, ecology and man in the northern lowlands. (Eds. C.D. Haynes, M.G. Ridpath and M.A.J. Williams), (A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam)

WEBB, L.J. 1992.
The case for an ecologically-based definition of Australia's rainforests. In: Victoria's Rainforests: Perspectives on Definition, Classification and Management pp.l7l-l77. (Eds P. Gell and D. Mercer), Monash Publications in Geography No. 41.
 

POPULAR ECOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS

WEBB, L.J., 1957.
Cyclone Agnes visits Babinda - Walkabout 22(12), 38-39, March 1, 1957.

WEBB. L.J., 1960.
Conservation for Man, Conservation of Man. Qld Peace Committee - Discussion Bulletin No. 1.

WEBB, L.J., 1961.
Conquest of Space - Inst. Foresters of Australia Newsletter 2 (10), 2-3.

WEBB, L.J., 1962.
Trees as an Investment - Report in "Tablelands Advertiser" (Mareeba) July 18, 1962

WEBB, L.J., 1963.
Trees are your friends. Wildlife in Australia 1 (3):10.

WEBB, L.J., 1964.
Conservation and land use in rain forest areas of eastern Australia. Proc. National Parks School, Univ. New England, Armidale, NSW, February 1964, pp. 33-48.

WEBB, L.J., 1964.
Economic and multiple land use in New South Wales with particular reference to land utilisation problems in the Barrington Tops. Proc. Symposium Inst. Foresters Aust., Gloucester, NSW, 14-16 August 1964, pp. 1-6.

WEBB, L.J., 1965.
Learning from Wildlife. I. Law of the Jungle. Wildlife in Australia 2 (3): 2-4.

WEBB, L.J., 1965.
A preliminary analysis of essential habitats in Queensland. Proc. Symposium on Wildlife Conservation, Univ. of New England, Armidale, NSW, January 1965, pp. 54-62.

WEBB, L.J., 1966.
Summing-Up pp. 44-51. In: The Bushfire Problem in Public Lands - Symposium at Leura, NSW (National Trust of Aust, Sydney).

WEBB, L.J., 1966.
Some principles in conservation ecology. Proc. Conservation in Education Seminar, Univ. New England, Armidale, NSW, January 1966, 50-63.

WEBB, L.J., 1966.
Rape of the forests. pp. 156-205. In: The Great Extermination: A guide to Anglo-Australian Cupidity, Wickedness and Waste. Chapter 8 (Ed. A.J. Marshall), 156-205 (Heinemann.. London).

WEBB, L.J., 1968.
The Progress of rain forest ecology in Northern Australia British Ecological Society, p. 3-4.

WEBB, L.J., 1968.
Impressions of Nature Protection in Europe. 50p. (Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia, Sydney).

WILLIAMS, W.T. and WEBB, L.J., 1968.
The computer and the tropical rainforest. Aust. Nat. Hist. 16: 92-6.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
Introduction p.xi-xvi. In: The Last of Lands (Eds L.J. Webb, D. Whitelock and J. Le Gay Brereton). Jacaranda Press.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
Australian Plants and Chemical Research p. 82-90. In: The Last of Lands (Eds L.J. Webb, D. Whitelock and J. Le Gay Brereton). Jacaranda Press.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
Use of Plant Medicines and Poisons by Australian Aborigines. Mankind 7: 137-146.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
Mangroves. Wildlife in Australia, 6 (2): 38-39.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
Rainforest. Wildlife in Australia, 6(3): 67-69.

TRACEY, J.G., WEBB, L.J. and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1969.
The Australian flora, pp.74-81, In: The Last of Lands (Ed. L.J., Webb, D. Whitelock, and J. Le Gay Brereton) Jacaranda Press, Brisbane.

WILLIAMS, W.T. and WEBB, L.J., 1969.
New methods of numerical analysis of rainforest data. Malayan Forester 32: 368-74.

WEBB, L.J. 1970.
The Ecological Crisis. "Crux" (ANU Canberra) Dec-Jan 1969-1970.

WEBB, L.J., 1970.
Comment. pp. 52-54. In: Education and the Environmental Crisis. (Eds. J. Evans and S. Boyden). Reports of Aust. Acad. Sci. No. 13, Canberra.

WEBB, L.J. and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1971.
Australia's oldest Asian heritage. Hemisphere 15 (2): 2-7

WEBB, L.J. and WILLIAMS, W.T. 1971.
Island of sand. Hemisphere 15 (12): 2-6.

WEBB, L.J., 1971.
The Great Barrier Reef . V. Tropical rain forests. Australian Fisheries, January 1971, pp. 16-18.

WEBB, L.J., 1972.
Vegetation. Handbook Geological Soc.of Aust.

WEBB, L.J., 1973.
Eat, Die and Learn. Botany of Australian Aborigines. Aust. National History, XVII (9), p. 290-295, March 1973.

WEBB, L.J., 1973.
Environmental Boomerang. p. 124. (Jacaranda Press).

WEBB, L.J., 1973.
Man and Environment: conservation of natural resources, p 83. (National Science Curriculum Materials Project, Jacaranda Press).

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1973.
The tropical rainforest in Australia. Wildlife in Australia 10: 66-69.

WEBB, L.J., 1973.
Problems in conservation of tropical habitat-types in North Queensland. In: Proc. Pacific Sci. Assn. Symposium, Bogor, 1973.

WEBB, L.J. and WILLIAMS, J.W.T., 1973.
Synecology - Cinderella finds her coach. New Scientist, 26 July 1973, pp. 195-196.

WEBB, L.J., 1975.
Recent advances in tropical rainforest ecology. Qld. Naturalist 21: 52-7.

WILLIAMS, W.T. and WEBB, L.J., 1976.
Nurseries of the sea. Hemisphere 20: 27-30.

WEBB, L.J. and McKINNEY, J.W., 1976.
Concept of the National Estate, pp. 273-7 In: National Report to Habitat, the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements. Aust. Gov. Publ. Service, Canberra.

WEBB, L.J., 1977.
The dynamics of tropical rainforest, pp. 11-18, In: The Forestry Log (ANU) Volume 10, 1977.

WEBB, L.J., 1977.
Rainforests in the 21st Century. Parks and Wildlife, 2:93-98, NPWS Sydney, N.S. Wales.

TRACEY, J.G. and WEBB, L.J., 1978.
The vegetation of Hinchinbrook Island. Queensland Naturalist 22: 31-37.

WEBB, L.J., 1978.
A general classification of Australian rainforests. Australian Plants 9 (76): 349-363 .

WEBB, L.J. and HIGGINS, H.G., 1978.
The impact of the "new ecology" on the development of the tropical rainforest. Special Paper, Item 20, Eighth World Forestry Congress, Jakarta 16-28 October 1978.

WEBB, L.J., 1979.
The great anger of the forest. Habitat 7: 6-7.

WEBB, L.J., 1979.
Book Review: Biology of Tropical Trees. Science 203:

WEBB, L.J., 1979.
Ecology and criteria for conservation. CSIRO Information Service Sheet No. 1, 27 November 1979. CSIRO East Melbourne.

WEBB, L.J., 1979.
Vegetation. Foreword in "Native Plants of Queensland" (K.A.W. Williams, North Ipswich, Qld).

WEBB, L.J., 1980.
After-dinner peroration: An ecologist ensnared by values. In: Contemporary Cape York Peninsula pp. 95-99. (Eds N.C. Stevens and A. Bailey). Roy. Soc. Qld. St. Lucia, Australia.

WEBB, L.J., 1980.
Ecology and Land use, pp. 20-23. In: Reef Rainforest Mangroves Man. Wildlife Preservation Society, Cairns.

WEBB, L.J., 1980.
Taking the National Estate Report Off the Shelf, p. 82. Ibid.

WEBB, L.J., 1981.
The irreplaceability of natural rainforests in Australia. Rainforest Conference, Geogr. Soc. NSW. Confer. Papers No. 1, 44-55. (ISSN 0725-6248), (PO Box 328, North Ryde, 2113, Australia).

WEBB, L.J., 1981.
Australian rainforests - past, present and future. Bull. Soc. For Growing Australian Plants Queensland Region 20 (3): 8-20.

WEBB, L.J., 1982.
Preserving what's left of Australia's Rainforests. Habitat 10 (3), 1325.

WEBB, L.d., 1982.
Rainforests of Australia: Current problems in the preservation of what remains. Landscape Australia 4 (2), 104-110.

WEBB, L.J., 1982.
Forests for People and People for Forests. Forestry Log Australian National University, Canberra, 15, 15-19.

WEBB, L.J., 1983.
Foreword in "Wild Places" (Eds. P. Prineas and H. Gold) Kalianna Press, Sydney.

WEBB, L.J., 1984.
Conservation status of the rainforest of North Queensland. pp. 90-95. In, "Australian National Rainforests Study Report", Vol. I. Rept. Workshop Griffith Univ. Dec. 1983. (Eds. A.P. Kershaw and G.L. Werren.) Geography Dept. Monash University.

WEBB, L.J. and SMYTH, D.M., 1984.
Ecological Guidelines and Traditional Empiricism in Rural Development. pp. 99-105. In: Traditional Life-styles, Conservation and Rural Development (Ed. J. Hanks) . Commission on Ecology Papers No.7, IUCN. Morges, Switzerland. Also In: The Environmentalist 4, Suppl. No. 7.

WEBB, L.J., 1985.
Modern Affirmations of Ecology Ethics. Wildlife in Australia 22 (l): 28-31.

WEBB, L.J., 1985.
Foreword In: Rainforests of Australia. (Ed. P. Figgis) Kevin Weldon, Sydney.

WEBB, L.J., 1986.
A survival kit for young graduates. Habitat 14: 18-19.

WEBB, L.J., 1986.
A Tribute. Nat. Parks J., Sydney. 30 (l): 20-21.

WEBB, L.J., 1986.
Report on a visit to the South China Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Guangzhou, 13-27 October 1986. Rainforest Conservation Society, Bardon, 4065, Queensland.

WEBB, L.J., 1987.
Ecological Science - New Myth or Economic-Technological Takeover? In: ECOPOLITICS Conference Proceedings (eds. R. Taplin and P. Tighe), 128-136. Env. Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane.

WEBB, L.J., 1987.
Foreword, pp. 10-14. In: Earth First. Aust. Broadcasting Corporation (ABC Enterprises), Sydney.

WEBB, L.J., 1987.
Conservation status of the rainforest of North Queensland. In: The Rainforest Legacy, pp. 153-58, A.G.P.S., Canberra.

WEBB, L.J., 1989.
The Living Earth. In: Simply Living, June 1989, p. 67, and In: World Rainforest Report No. 12, 1989.

WEBB, L.J, 1989.
Statement on Sustained Yield Arguments by Forestry in North Queensland Tropical Rainforests. World Rainforest News, August, 1989. Rainforest Information Centre, Lismore NSW.

WEBB, L.J., 1990.
Thoughts on Ecological Values and Sustainable Development. In: Climate for Change, p. 133-143, (Eds. P. Smith and C. Taylor) . Dept. Geogr. Sci. Workshop (Univ. Qld).

WEBB, L.J., 1990.
Beyond the Forest. In: Australian Tropical Rainforests: Science, Values, Meaning p. 117-123. (Eds. L.J. Webb and J. Kikkawa). CSIRO Melbourne (1990).

WEBB, L.J., and HARRIS, J., 1992.
Ecology, Ecological Intuition and Ethics. In: ECOPOLITICS V Proceedings, pp. 25-31. (Ed. Ronnie Harding) Centre for Liberal and General Studies, University of NSW, 1992.

WEBB, L.J., 1992.
Unfolding a new story: Book review of The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco 1988. In: HABITAT Australia Vol. 20 (3), July 1992, 36-37.

WEBB, L.J., 1992.
Keynote Address: A brief history of the Australian rainforest debate, 9-12. In: Victoria's Rainforests: Perspectives on Definition, Classification and Management (Eds P. Gell and D. Mercer) , Monash Publications in Geography No. 41.

WEBB, L.J., 1993.
A natural balance. Wildlife Australia 30 (2): 8-9.

 

UNPUBLISHED MSS - SCIENTIFIC PAPERS and AMP; SYMPOSIA


Quiet crisis in Australian biology. 7pp. mimeo. Symposium onEducation and Training ANZAAS, Hobart.

HOPKINS, M.S., WEBB, L.J., and WILLIAMS, W.T., 1978.
Dynamics of development or internal dynamics (flowering, fruiting, seed germination and establishment, growth rate, gap formation, and succession). Various physiological adaptions. MS. - partly incorporated in Ashton, P. S. , Hopkins, M. S. , Webb, L. J. , Williams, W. T. and Palmer, J., 1978: "The natural forest: plant biology, regeneration and tree growth", pp. 180-215. In: Tropical Forest Ecosystems, a state-of-knowledge report prepared by UNESCO/UNEP/FAO. UNESCO, Paris.

WEBB, L.J. and TRACEY, J.G., 1978.
An ecological survey of the monsoon forests of the north-western region of the Northern Territory. 36p. MS. (Commissioned by, and submitted to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra).

KIKKAWA, J., POLAKOWSKI, K., and WEBB, L.J., 1981.
A method to derive perceptual description and aesthetic values for tropical rainforests. 95p. (Report to Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, Canberra.)

WEBB, L.J., 1990.
Ecological Evolution, Significance, and Present Status of the Tropical Rain Forests of Terra Australis. Study Week, "Man and his Environment, Tropical Forests and the Conservation of Species", 14-18 May 1990 at The Vatican City. (Co-sponsored by Pontifical Academy of Sciences and Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences.)

WEBB, L.J. and KIKKAWA, J. 1990.
Future Directions of Ecological Research in Tropical Moist Forests. Symposium on Future of Tropical Rain Forests at INTECOL Congress, Yokohama, 23-30 August 1990.

WEBB, L.J., 1991.
Ecological Intuition and Morality. Occasional Address on conferring of the Award of Doctor of the University (Griffith) Brisbane, 20 September 1991.

 

PHYTOCHEMICAL PUBLICATIONS

TALCOTT, T.B. and WEBB, L.J., 1947
Queensland plants tested against Staphyloccus aureus. Aust. J. Sci.10: 82.

WEBB, L.J., 1948.
Guide to the medicinal and poisonous plants of Queensland. CSIRO Bulletin No. 232, p. 202.

WEBB, L.J., 1948.
Alkaloids in Queensland Cryptocarya spp. Aust. J. Sci. 11: 26-7.

HUGHES, G.K., LAHEY, F.N., PRICE, J.R., and WEBB, L.J., 1948.
Alkaloids of the Australian Rutaceae. Nature 162: 223.

WEBB, L.J., 1948.
The blistering alkaloid in "Poisonous Walnut" (Cryptocarya pleurosperrna). CSIRO Forest Products Newsletter No. 169.

WEBB, L.J., 1949.
Australian Phytochernical Survey I. Alkaloids and cyanogenetic compounds in Queensland plants. CSIRO Bulletin 241, p. 56.

WEBB, L.J., 1950.
Alkaloid tests on herbarium specimens. Nature 165: 411.

WEBB, L.J., 1951.
Some problems in the pharmacological testing of Australian plants. Aust. J. Pharm. 31: 794-6.

WEBB, L.J., 1952.
Nitrate content and toxicity of Queensland plants. J. Aust. Inst. Agric. Sci. 18: 164-7.

COOKE, R.G., DOWD, H. and WEBB, L.J., 1952.
Naphthoquinones from Diospyros hebecarpa. Nature 169: 974.

WEBB, L.,J., 1952.
Australian phytochemical survey II. Alkaloids in Queensland flowering plants. CSIRO Bulletin 268, p. 99.

WEBB, L.J., 1953.
An occurence of aluminium succinate in Cardwellia sublimis F. Muell. Nature 171: 656.

WEBB, L.J., 1953.
Alkaloid potentialities of the Australian flora. J. Aust. Inst. Agric. Sci. 19: 144-157.

WEBB, L.J., 1954.
Aluminium accumulation in the Australian-New Guinea flora. Aust. J. Bot. 2: 176-96.

WEBB, L.J., 1955.
A preliminary phytochemical survey of Papua New Guinea. Pacific Science, October 1955, 430-41.

WEBB, L.J., SIMES, J.J.H., TRACEY, J.G. and DUNSTAN, W.J., 1959.
Australian Phytochemical Survey III. Saponins in eastern Australian flowering plants. CSIRO Bulletin 281, p. 31.

SUTHERLAND, M.D., WELLS, J.W., and WEBB, L.J., 1960.
Terpenoid chemistry III. The essential oils of Eucalyptus deglupta Blume and Eucalyptus torrelliana F. Muell. Aust. J. Chem. 13: 357-66.

WEBB, L.J., 1960.
Some new records of medicinal plants used by the Aborigines of tropical
Queensland and New Guinea. Proc. Roy. Soc. Qld. 71: 103-10.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
Australian plants and chemical research, pp. 82-90, in The Last of Lands (eds. L.J. Webb, D.A. Whitelock and J. Brereton), Jacaranda Press.

WEBB, L.J., 1969.
The use of plant medicines and poisons by Australian Aborigines, Mankind 7: 137-46.

WEBB, L.J., 1973.
"Eat, die and learn" - the botany of the Australian Aborigines. Aust. Nat. Hist. 17: 290-5.

WEBB, L.J., 1977.
Ethnobotany: the co-operative approach to research. Aust. Inst. Aboriginal Studies Newsletter (n.s.) 7: 43-5.