Acacia melanoxylon and Acacia aulacocarpa regrowth from previous clearing with re-clearing for banana growing. Burringbar Range between Murwillumbah and Mullumbimby, New South Wales, July 1963.

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Land Use -- New South Wales -- Northern
Acacia melanoxylon and Acacia aulacocarpa regrowth from previous clearing with re-clearing for banana growing

Burringbar Range between Murwillumbah and Mullumbimby, New South Wales

July 1963

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Vegetation patterns in this subtropical environment relate to soil parent materials.
Originally sclerophyll fern forest with Eucalyptus pilularis blackbutt on Nerangleigh shales. Simple notophyll vine forests with complex notophyll vine forests in gullies.
Reference:
Webb, L.J. (1965) "The influence of soil parent materials on the nature and distribution of rainforests in South Queensland." Pp. 1-14 in proceedings of Symposium on Ecological Research in Humid Tropics Vegetation (1963 : Kuching, Sarawak) (Itabashi, Tokyo, Printed by Tokyo Press Co., Ltd., 1965).

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