Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 11-29

Vegetation Types Profile of cloudy moist cool subtropical rainforest (complex notophyll vine forest, with Araucaria bidwillii emergents) West side of old "Lucerne Patch", Bunya Mountains, Queensland December 1954 Larger image (146K)

Note "beehive" crowns different from Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii). Relict Dicksonia antarctica fern in foreground along moist shady creek, indicating (along with relict Poa caespitosa dominated grass balds) past cooler wetter (cool temperate) climate). Altitude ca. 930 metres, annual rainfall averaging 1500+ mm, augmented by "cloud-combing" of "horizontal precipitation" (cloud-mist), especially during winter lower rainfall months.
See Webb, L.J. (1964) "An historical interpretation of the grass balds of the Bunya Mountains, South Queensland". Ecology 45: 159-162.

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