Len Webb Ecological Images Collection

Image No. 8-1

Life Forms -- Rainforest Plank buttress Bloomfield River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland 1969 Larger image (189K)

Note also scaly tending to tessellated bark.
Tropical moist-wet lowlands.
For the significance of these different growth forms and physiognomic features in rainforest classification into structural types, see: Webb, L.J. (1959) "A physiognomic classification of Australian rain forests". Journal of Ecology 47: 551-570.
Also Webb, L.J., Tracey, J.G. and Williams, W.T. (1976) "The value of structural features in tropical forest typology". Australian Journal of Ecology 1: 3-28.

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