Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 10-89

Landscapes -- Land Use Patterns -- Wet Tropics (Daintree) Depleted mesophyll vine forest on left, mainly brown Salwood (Acacia aulacocarpa) regrowth following clearing on right North of Daintree on Cape Tribulation Road, Queensland October 1971 Larger image (153K)

Acacia dominated regrowth is typical on these poorer soils throughout the wet tropics, tending to impeded drainage (note remnant Fan Palm - Licuala ramsayi). Regrowth is on Tommy Mackay's block, cleared about 1963, i.e. about 8 years old.
Wet coastal lowland foothills with soils derived from metamorphic rocks.

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