Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
Note line of pylons in small clearings, beginning near edge of cane farm. The cable car enables observation of excellent transect from broken-canopied (cycloned) tropical lowland rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest, Type 1a) at base, through simple notophyll/microphyll vine forest (Types 8, 9), on cloudy wet uplands and highlands (submontane, cf. warm temperate, with increasingly streamlined canopies), and finally windswept cloudy wet summit with microphyll vine-fern thicket (Type 10) (montane, cf. stunted cool temperate or "elfin woodland").
Image No. 16-1Vegetation Types -- Bellenden Ker Transect Series
Slide 1: Approaching base of cableway (TV installation) up Bellenden Ker Range
Bellenden Ker, Queensland
June 1976
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Reference:
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.
