Assorted publications regarding botany, phytogeography and hydrology in Britain, Southern Hemisphere, Israel, New Zealand, New Guinea, South Africa, Falkland Islands, 1958-1993

Containers:

Box 37 (MS 10563)

Component identifier:

File 426

Content Summary:

"Wynbury Moss, Cheshire" by M.E.D. Poore and D. Walker 1958-9. Reprinted from Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Philosophical Society.

"Remarks on the plant geography of the Southern cold temperate zone" by C. Skottsberg, 1960. Reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society.

"The water balance of a plantation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis dehn" by R. Karschon and D. Heth, 1967. Reprinted from Contributions on Eucalypts in Israel, III.

"New Zealand timberlines" by P. Wardle, 1972. Reprinted from Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Institute Review.

"The influence of man on the floras and faunas of Southern islands" by M.W. Holdgate and N.M. Wace, 1961. Reprinted from The Polar Record.

"The alpine flora of Mount Wilhelm (New Guinea)" by R.D. Hoogland, 1958. Reprinted from Blumea. Also includes inserted correspondence from Hobart Van Deusen to Alec Costin, containing comments on Costin's draft on alpine ecosystems, 1965.

"Age of the alpine biota" by C.A. Fleming, 1963. Reprinted from Proceedings of the N.Z. Ecological Society.

"The high-altitude flora and vegetation of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa" by H.P. Linder et al, 1993. Reprinted from Opera Botanica.

"Pseudo-vivipary in Fuegian and Falkland Islands grasses" by D.M. Moore and Margaret C. Doggett, 1976. Reprinted from British Antarctic Survey Bulletin.

"Freezing resistance of New Zealand trees and shrubs" by A. Sakai and P. Wardle, 1978. Reprinted from New Zealand Journal of Ecology.

"Transport of water in the soil-plant-atmosphere system" by I.R. Cowan, 1965. Photocopy from The Journal of Applied Ecology.

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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