Slide 2: Very wet (perhumid) tropical lowland rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) (Type 1a). Near first pylon of cableway up Mt Bellenden Ker, near Harvey Creek, Babinda, Queensland, June 1976.

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Vegetation Types -- Bellenden Ker Transect Series
Slide 2: Very wet (perhumid) tropical lowland rainforest (complex mesophyll vine forest) (Type 1a)

Near first pylon of cableway up Mt Bellenden Ker, near Harvey Creek, Babinda, Queensland

June 1976

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Typical broken canopy as result of recent cyclonic history and recent human impacts. Note abundant vine drapes ("cyclone scrub") over trees and in gaps. Deep rich mixed colluvium of footslopes of granite mountain.
Reference:
Tracey, J.G. (1982) The Vegetation of the Humid Tropical Region of North Queensland. CSIRO Melbourne Publication.

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