Assorted publications regarding ecology and botany in alpine regions in Australia and other countries, 1949-1976

Containers:

Box 19 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 240

Content Summary:

Contains mainly reprints of published scholarly works from scientific journals; also includes one attached letter. Many of the reprints are also annotated with some labelled as A.B. Costin.

"Vegetation of an infrequently burned Tasmanian mountain region" by J.B. Kirkpatrick and C.E. Harwood, 31 July 1980.

"Ecological interpretation of vegetational zonation of high mountains, particularly in Japan and Taiwan" by Makato Numata. Reprint from "Geoecology of the high-mountain regions of Eurasia" by Carl Troll.

"Flowering, seeding, and seedling establishment of narrow-leaved snow tussock, Chinochloa rigida" by A.F. Mark, 1965.

"On climatic extremes as decisive factors for plant distribution" by H. Boykyo, 1949.

"Seed germination and vivipary from a latitudinal series of populations of the arctic-alpine grass Trisetum spicatum" by Edward Clebsch and W.D. Billings, 1976.

"Measurement of root growth in simulated and natural temperature gradients over permafrost" by W.D. Billings, G.R. Shaver, and A.W. Trent, 1976.

"Temperature responses in altitudinal populations of Eucalyptus pauciflora sieb. ex. spreng" by J.W. Green, 1969.

"Studying the effects of environmental factors on ecosystems", by David W. Goodall.

"The dead river systems of the Murrumbidgee" by T. Langford-Smith, 1961. Also contains letter (on University of Sydney letterhead) from Langford-Smith to A.B. Costin.

"Riverine deposition during arid phases" by B.E. Butler and response by T. Langford-Smith, 1960.

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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