Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 3-3

Land Use -- Queensland, North -- Wet Tropics Degraded landscape with weed invaded pastures Evelyn Tableland between Atherton and Ravenshoe, Queensland ca. 1962 Larger image (107K)

Tree regrowth mainly Acacia melanoxylon, other weeds mainly Lantana camara, Blady Grass (Imperata) and Bracken fern (Pteridium esculentum).
Cleared tall open forest with Eucalyptus grandis and simple notophyll/microphyll evergreen vine forest on soils mostly from acid volcanics - rhyolite, North Queensland wet uplands, 1100 metres.
References:
Webb, L.J. (1957) "Catchment deterioration - a combined agricultural and forestry problem". Journal of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science 23: 251-252.
Webb, L.J. (1966) "Rape of the Forests." In: The Great Extermination: A Guide to Anglo-Australian Cupidity, Wickedness and Waste. Chapter 8. Ed. A.J. Marshall, pp. 156-205. Heinemann: London.
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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