Bridging Wallace's Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the SE-Asian-Australian Region (Advances in Geoecology, 34 & A Cooperating Series of the International Union of Soil Science IUSS)

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Published by Catena, 2002

3923381476 / 9783923381470

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Scarce hardcover, [x] + 360 pages. Ex-foreign university library, ownership marks covered with a blank sticker on the reverse of title-page, pencil inventory notation in the upper corner of the title-page. Pages are clean and bright with unmarked text, firmly bound. Moderate creasing to the side edge of a portion of leaves. Boards show chipping & small edge-nicks to edges, faint shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Preface; Bridging Wallace's Line: Bringing Home the Antipodes; -- Part I Environmental Background -- Climate, Climatic Variability and Atmospheric Circulation Patterns in the Maritime Continent Region / Nigel Tapper; Tectonic History of the SE Asian-Australian Region / Ian Metcalfe; Tertiary Vegetational History of Southeast Asia, with Emphasis on the Biogeographical Relationships with Australia / Robert J. Morley; Plant Biogeography of the SE Asian-Australian Region / Trevor Whiffin; -- Part II Quaternary Environments -- Quaternary Flora and Vegetation of Java / A.A. Polhaupessy; Quaternary Records of Vegetation, Biomass Burning, Climate and Possible Human Impact in the Indonesian-Northern Australian Region / Peter Kershaw, Sander van der Kaars, Patrick Moss & Xuan Wang; Late Quaternary Mangrove Pollen Records from Continental Shelf and Ocean Cores in the North Australian-Indonesian Region / John Grindrod, Patrick Moss & Sander van der Kaars; Palaeoceanography of the Western Pacific Warm Pool During the Last Glacial Maximum: Long-term Climatic Monitoring of the Maritime Continent / J. Ignacio Martinez, Patrick De Deckker & Timothy T. Barrows; Mountain Environments in New Guinea and the Last Glacial Maximum 'Warm Seas/Cold Mountains' Enigma in the West Pacific Warm Pool Region / Jim Peterson, Geoff Hope, Mike Prentice & Wahyoe Hantoro; Late Quaternary Pollen and Associated Records from the Monsoonal Areas of Continental South and SE Asia / Andrew L. Maxwell & Kam-biu Liu; Reconstruction of Flood Regimes in SE Asia from El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Related Records / David Godley; -- Part III The Peopling of Sunda and Sahul -- Early Hominids in SE Asia: Older, Younger, Smarter and More / Ian Walters; Asia and the Peopling of Polynesia: Understanding Sequential Migration / Nicola van Dijk & Alan Thorne; From Savannah to Rainforest: Changing Environments and Human Occupation at Liang Lembudu, Aru Islands, Maluku (Indonesia) / Sue O'Connor, Ken P. Aplin, Matthew Spriggs, Peter Veth & Linda K. Ayliffe; Long-term Archaeological and Environmental Trends: A Comparison from Late Pleistocene-Holocene Australia / Harry Lourandos & Bruno David; Forests and Grassland, Drought and Fire: The Island of Borneo in the Historical Environmental Record (post-1800) / Lesley Potter; Contributors.…

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Title
Bridging Wallace's Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the SE-Asian-Australian Region (Advances in Geoecology, 34 & A Cooperating Series of the International Union of Soil Science IUSS)
Author
Peter Kershaw; Bruno David; Nigel Tapper; Dan Penny; Jonathan Brown
Publisher
Catena
Publication year
2002
Condition
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
3923381476
ISBN 13
9783923381470
Edition
1st Edition

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