Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 3-10

Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics Wild Tobacco (Solanum mauritianum) establishes dense stands in cleared and burnt rainforests on fertile soils Maalan Scrub between Millaa Millaa and Ravenshoe, Atherton Tableland, Queensland December 1962 Larger image (129K)

Wild Tobacco acts as a pioneer species in rainforest successions particularly on fertile soils in wet/moist subtropical sites.
Complex notophyll vine forest on basaltic red loams on wet uplands, ca. 1000 metres.
References:
Webb, L.J. Tracey, J.G. and Williams, W.T. (1972) "Regeneration and pattern in the subtropical rainforest." Journal of Ecology 60: 675-695.
Webb, L.J., Tracey, J.G., Williams, W.T. and Lance, G.N. (1971) "Prediction of agricultural potential from intact forest vegetation." Journal of Applied Ecology 8: 99-121.

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