Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 14-4

Vegetation Types Fire-free refuge enables survival of vine forests Davies Creek Road, Mareeba, Queensland August 1962 Larger image (250K)

Pockets of vine thickets occur in similar situations throughout northern Australia's wet/dry tropics with different species combinations adapted through long time scales. This patch is typical of the northwest fall of Tinaroo Range (granite) at the overlap of the wet tropics with wet/dry (monsoon) tropics.
See comments and references under Images 9-1, 12-6, 13-65 and 13-76, and for a well documented and illustrated overview of Australia's vegetation change over the relevant time scales see White, Mary E. (1994) After the Greening - The Browning of Australia. Kenthurst, N.S.W.: Kangaroo Press.
Fragmented vine thicket on granite.

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