Vegetation of Australia's desert river landscapes

Capon, Samatha J.;Porter, John;James, Cassandra S.

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[Extract] Australia is renowned for being the driest inhabited continent on Earth and ‘a land of droughts and flooding rains’ (Dorothea Mackellar). Over one-third of Australia’s land area can be considered ‘arid’ and a further third ‘semi-arid’ (Martin 2006). Importantly, these areas are characterised not just by extended periods of low rainfall but also extremely patchy and unpredictable rainfall that sometimes produces enormous floods, driving some of the most expansive and dynamic riverine landscapes in Australia and the world.

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Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes: biology, ecology and management

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978-0-643-09631-8

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CSIRO Publishing

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Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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