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Vegetation history

Part of the book series: Handbook of vegetation science ((HAVS,volume 7))

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For the purpose of this paper, the Australasian region is taken to include New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea and those Malesian Islands west of New Guinea which, geologically, can be identified as having formed part of Gondwana (Audley-Charles, 1981). This definition corresponds broadly with Wallace’s zoogeographical region, Australia (Tivy, 1971). A map of the region incorporating the geological and Wallace’s boundaries appears as Fig. 1. Included here is part of south-east Asia to the west of the defined region which will be considered in discussion of floristic relationships and interchange during the period under discussion.

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Kershaw, A.P. (1988). Australasia. In: Huntley, B., Webb, T. (eds) Vegetation history. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3081-0_8

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