Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 14-2

Landscapes -- Vegetation Patterns Edaphic control of rainforest and sclerophyll vegetation Coomera Gorge, Queensland October 1970 Larger image (124K)

Rainforest types include complex, simple and araucarian vine forests typical of subtropical mountain landscapes of basic and acid volcanics of northeast New South Wales and southeast Queensland.
See Webb, L.J. (1965) "The influence of soil parent materials on the nature and distribution of rainforests in South Queensland." pp. 1-14 in Proceedings of Symposium on Ecological Research in Humid Tropics Vegetation (1963 : Kuching, Sarawak) (Itabashi, Tokyo, Printed by Tokyo Press Co., Ltd., 1965).
Medium/tall open forest with eucalypts on ridges, rainforest on slopes and gullies.

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