Biology of Australia

Notes on the Flora of Australia

Flora                                                                                                                                                                                                           

• Aestivation in the Kwongan Flora
• Allelopathy
• Angiosperms
• Angiospermy
• Aridification
• Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide - A 300-Million-Year record from Plant Cuticles
• Australian Cretaceous Vegetation - macrofossils
• Australian Cretaceous Vegetation - microfossils
• Australian Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate - Tertiary 
• Australian Plant Communities – Palaeocene
• Australian Plant Communities – Early Eocene
• Australian Plant Communities – Middle to Late Eocene
• Australian Plant Communities – latest Eocene-earliest Oligocene
• Australian Plant Communities – Early Oligocene-late Early Miocene
• Phytogeography of Australia in the Tertiary - an overview
• Australian Tertiary Phytogeography
• Australian Vegetation Types
• Biological Duricrust
• Botanical History
• Carbon Dioxide Sequestering in Botany Bay
• Carnivorous Plants of the Kwongan Flora
• Cenozoic Vegetation in Tasmania
• Chenopod Shrublands
• Cloud Stripping in Tropical Rainforests (Occult Stripping) - trees worth more alive than dead
• Clubmoss
• Dark Survival in a Warmer a World
• Dauciform roots
• Delayed Shoot Growth, Elevated Taproot Growth in the Kwongan Flora
• Devonian Flora
• Dicroidium Flora
• Dry Rainforest
• Dry Rainforest - the Far North
• Early Tertiary Macrofloras
• Ecosystems
• Floras of Ancient Australia
• Fossil Tea-trees - Victoria
• Giant Clubmoss Flora
• Glossopteris Flora
• Holocene Vegetation
• Ice Age Biotas
• Kurnell Fen Coastal Wetland
• Kwongan Sandplain Flora, Western Australia
• Lake Baraba - A Vegetation & Fire History Going Back More Than 43,000 Years
• Mycorrhizal Associations
• Micro-stilt Roots in the Kwongan Flora
• Mineral Loading of Seeds in the Kwongan Flora
• Miocene Flora
• Mulga Woodland
• Neogene
• Nitre Bush
• Nitrogen fixing in the Kwongan Flora
• Nothofagus
• Oligo-Miocene Coal Floras of SE Australia
• Australia's Fossil Pollen Record
• Palaeohabitats and Mammalian History
• Parasitic Plants of the Kwongan Flora
• Podocarpaceae
• Proteoid roots in the Kwongan Flora
• Quaternary Vegetation
• Rainforest
• Rainforest-Cape York Peninsula
• Receptaculitids
• Relict Jurassic Forest
• Riparian woodlands
• Resurrection Plants
• Rhacopteris Flora
• Saltbush
• Simpson Desert Flora
• Softwood Scrubs
• Spinifex Alliances
• Spinifex Grassland
• The absence of succulents from Australia
• Talbragar Fish Bed Flora
• Tussock Grasslands
• Vegetation Change on a Large Scale
• Vegetation of Dunes
• Wollemi Pine
• Woodlands of Australia

Floras of Ancient Australia

Sources & Further reading

1. Mary E. White, The Greening of Gondwana, the 400 Million Year story of Australian Plants, Reed, 1994
2. Mary E White, After the Greening, The Browning of Australia, Kangaroo Press, 1994
3. Penny Van Oosterzee, The Centre - The Natural history of Australia's Desert Regions, Reed Australia, 1993
4. Hill, Robert S., (ed.), 1994, History of the Australian Vegetation, Cambridge University Press.