Assorted publications regarding alpine ecology, soil science, gondwana, mountain land problems in Australia (mainly) and New Zealand, 1964-1981

Containers:

Box 38 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 427

Content Summary:

"Section 1: Ecological investigations" by A.B. Costin, 1967. Report from the Soil Conservation Colloquium, University of New England, Armidale, NSW.

"Section XIV: General conclusions" by A.B. Costin, 1967. Report from the Soil Conservation Colloquium, University of New England, Armidale, NSW.

"Mountain land problems: South Island impressions and Australian comparisons" by A.B. Costin, 1964. Reprinted from New Zealand Geographer.

"The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales" Part 3, 1965.

"The Journal of the Soil Conservation Service of New South Wales", January 1971.

"The break-up of the Australian-Antarctic segment of Gondwanaland" by Keith A.W. Cook, 1981. Reprinted from Ecological Biogeography of Australia by A. Keast (ed).

"Colour aerial photography in the reappraisal of alpine soil erosion" by C.J. Totterdell and N.R. Nebauer, 1973. Extract from The Journal of the Soil Conservation Service of N.S.W.

"Southern biogeography on the basis of continental drift: A review" by J.M.B. Smith, 1974. Reprinted from Journal of Australian Mammal Society.

"Characteristics and use of Australian high country" by A.B. Costin 1972. Reprinted from The Lake Country of Tasmania: A Symposium Arranged by the Royal Society of Tasmania.

Copies of "Portable rainfall simulator and plot unit for use in field studies of infiltration, runoff and erosion" by A.B. Costin and D.A. Gilmour, 1970. Reprinted from Journal of Applied Ecology.

"Erosion survey of the Hume catchment area" by R.T. Morland, 1960. Photocopy from unidentified source.

"Development of soil and vegetation climaxes in the Mount Kosciusko area, Australia" by A.B. Costin et al, 1969. Reprinted from Vegetatio Acta Geobotanica.

Immediate source of acquisition:

This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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