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Extensive maps of the vegetation of southwestern Australia, recently completed, allow analysis of vegetation in relation to environment on a broad scale. The facts given here are extracted from the Explanatory Notes to the 1:1,000,000 vegetation map “Swan” (Beard 1981).
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Beard, J.S. (1983). Ecological Control of the Vegetation of Southwestern Australia: Moisture versus Nutrients. In: Kruger, F.J., Mitchell, D.T., Jarvis, J.U.M. (eds) Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 43. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68935-2_3
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