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Introduction -- 1. A D-section and a tin whistle: A tribute to Prof. Geoff Hope -- Ecosystem responses to long and short term climate change -- 2. The contrasting biology of tropical versus temperate Nothofagus species and its relevance to interpretations of Cenozoic rainforest history in southeast Australia -- 3. Beneath the peat: A refined pollen record from an interstadial at Caledonia Fen, highland eastern Victoria, Australia -- 4. The vegetation cover of New Zealand during the Last Glacial Maximum: Do pollen records under-represent woody vegetation? -- 5. Holocene vegetation history of a high-elevation (1200 m) site in the Lake Heron Basin, inland Canterbury, New Zealand -- 6. Last Glacial Maximum habitat change and its effects on the grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus Temminck 1825) -- 7. Observations on feeding frequencies among native and exotic birds and fruit bats at Erythrina variegata and Dysoxylum trees on American Samoa -- Human colonisation and ecological impacts -- 8. Megafaunal extinctions and their consequences in the tropical Indo-Pacific -- 9. Marsupials as introduced species: Long-term anthropogenic expansion of the marsupial frontier and its implications for zoogeographic interpretation -- 10. The empty coast: Conditions for human occupation in southeast Australia during the late Pleistocene -- 11. Early Holocene human occupation and environment of the Southeast Australian Alps: New evidence from the Yarrangobilly Plateau, New South Wales -- 12. Holocene lowland vegetation change and human ecology in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea -- 13. Geomorphic and archaeological consequences of human arrival and agricultural expansion on Pacific islands: A reconsideration after 30 years of debate -- 14. Pollen evidence for plant introductions in a Polynesian tropical island ecosystem, Kingdom of Tonga -- 15. Integrating social and environmental change in prehistory: A discussion of the role of landscape as a heuristic in defining prehistoric possibilities in northeast Thailand -- Fire and its role in transforming our environment -- 16. A 40,000 year wood charcoal record from Carpenter's Gap 1: New insights into palaeovegetation change and indigenous foraging strategies in the Kimberley, Western Australia -- 17. The burning question: Claims and counter claims on the origin and extent of buttongrass moorland (blanket moor) in southwest Tasmania during the present glacial-interglacial -- 18. Ecological drift or stable fire cycles in Tasmania: A resolution? -- 19. Restoration of mires of the Australian Alps following the 2003 wildfires -- 20. Post-fire experimental trials of vegetation restoration techniques in the peatlands of Namadgi (ACT) and Kosciuszko National Parks (NSW), Australia -- Methodological advances and applications in environmental change research -- 21. The archaic and puzzling record of Lake Xere Wapo, New Caledonia -- 22. Comparative AMS 14C dating of plant macrofossils, beetles and pollen preparations from two Late Pleistocene sites in southeastern Australia -- 23. Can Myrtaceae pollen of the Holocene from Bega Swamp (New South Wales, Australia) be compared with extant taxa? -- 24. The evolution of a coastal peatland at Byron Bay, Australia: Multi-proxy evidence from the microfossil record -- 25. Development of mountain peatlands in stable equilibrium with open-channel hydraulics: A new concept in peatland formation and maintenance -- 26. Glacier crippling and the rise of the snowline in western New Guinea (Papua Province, Indonesia) from 1972 to 2000 -- 27. Altitudinal limits of 230 economic crop species in Papua New Guinea.
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Altered ecologies : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes / / [Simon G. Haberle, Janelle Stevenson, Matthew Prebble]
