Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 5-89

Landscapes -- Micro Vegetation Patterns -- Abrupt Edge of Rainforest Rainforest refugium - relatively fire-free gully with enriched, moister soil among savanna Speewah Road, near Kuranda, Queensland December 1962 Larger image (160K)

Tropical rainforest patch (complex notophyll vine forest) in gully - moister, fire-shadow, and typically on enriched soil parent materials, e.g. colluvium, basic segregation among acid granites supporting savanna.

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