- Main Menu-

Catalogue Display

Kimberley monsoon rainforests : islands in a sea of savanna / by Kevin F. Kenneally.

Catalogue Information
Field name	Details
ISBN	9781760802677
Author	Kenneally, Kevin Francis, 1945- (author)
Title	Kimberley monsoon rainforests : islands in a sea of savanna / by Kevin F. Kenneally.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2023.
Publisher and/or associated date/s	©2023.
Description	ix, 184 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	The plant communities of the Kimberley, including Australia's tropical rainforests, are the most biodiverse ecosystems of Australia and, in many ways, the least understood. Since European settlement Australia has lost 27% of its rainforest. Today, there remains around 1,500 patches of monsoon rainforest, totalling 7,000 hectares, scattered across 170,000 square kilometres of the tropical Kimberley region of Western Australia. These rainforests are small, isolated and embedded within a mosaic of mostly flammable eucalypt savanna woodlands. Mounting evidence of the Kimberley as a historical and significant centre of refugia warrants action from scientists, governments, conservation agencies, Indigenous landholders as well as local communities to protect and conserve its unique biota and the processes responsible for generating and sustaining it.
Subjects	Botany -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
	Rain forests -- Western Australia -- Kimberley
	Kimberley (W.A.)
Call number	2024.007

Item Information
Barcode	Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Status	Due Date
A00969936	2024.007	General Collection		. Available to Museum Staff .