Len Webb Ecological Images Collection
Optimal habitat conditions (climate-soils) in now rare residual lowland rainforest massifs in North Queensland. Showing high degree of diversity/complexity of life forms and structure accompanying high species diversity, e.g. (on left) plank buttress, trunk epiphytes; with palm lianes, relatively large leaf sizes, dense understorey, and diffuse vertical "stratification" of trees which continues upwards to ca. 30-40 metres in height.
Image No. 8-62Life Forms -- Rainforest
Interior of complex mesophyll vine forest under optimal climatic and edaphic (soil fertility) conditions on the North Queensland wet (perhumid) tropical lowlands
McNamee Ck. near Innisfail, Queensland
November 1968
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Interior of complex mesophyll vine forest.
