Author: BARKER, W.R. & GREENSLADE, P.J.M. eds.
Title: Evolution of the Flora and Fauna of Arid Australia.
Description: Peacock Publications, 1982. Paperback. 4to. A little wear to spine, otherwise good condition. B/W photos and illus. Includes papers on Aridity in the late Tertiary and Quaternary of Australia; Environmental Determinants of Biogeography and Evolution in Terra Australis; The Cainozoic Palaeobotanical Record in Arid Australia: Fossil Evidence for the Origin of and Arid-Adapted Flora; Proteaceae and the early differentiation of the central Australian flora; Late Pleistocene aridity and aeolian landforms in Western Australia; The Signficiance of Fire in the Biology and Evolutionary Ecology of Mallee Eucalyptus populations; Pollination Syndromes and Breeding Systems of Western Australian Arid Zone Plants; Origina, Adapatation and Evolution of Birds in Arid Australia; Adaptations of the Red Kangaroo and Euro (Macropodidae) to Aridity; Desert Adaptations of Cyclorama platycephalus: An Holistic Approach to Desert-Adaptation in Frogs etc. 392pp. ISBN-10 0909209626. ISBN-13: 9780909209629.

Keywords: australia australian botany botanical plant flora fauna arid desert evolution