Title: Australian tropical rainforests : science, values, meanings /
Authors: Webb, Leonard J.; Kikkawa, Jiro.; ANZAAS. 1987 :; ANZAAS (Association). 1987 :
Publisher: CSIRO Publications,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Rain forests Australia Congresses.; Rain forest ecology Australia Queensland Congresses.; Rain forests Australia Queensland Congresses.; Environmental protection Moral and ethical aspects Congresses.
Contents: Australian rainforests : the 100 million year record / E.M. Truswell -- Directions and rates of rainforest processes / D. Walker -- People and the rainforest : an archaeological perspective / N. Horsfall and J. Hall -- Disturbance - the forest transformer / M.S. Hopkins -- Vertebrates and successions / F.H. Crome -- Specialisation in the tropical rainforest / J. Kikkawa -- The biological web : plant/animal interactions in the rainforest / R.E. Jones and F.H. Crome -- Plant/insect interactions : food webs and breeding systems / D. Sands and S. House -- Forest-floor decomposers / K.P. Plowman -- Essential nutrient cycles / R.A. Congdon and D. Lamb -- Beyond the forest / L.J. Webb -- Values and uses : seeing the forest through different eyes / J. Davidson -- Scientific objectivity and values / I. Lowe -- Conserving wild nature : purpose and ethics / D.A. Ratcliffe -- Rainforest as metaphor : the search for public ethics in the Australian wet tropics / J.R. Engel -- Comment on science, value and meaning / J. Wright -- Thoughts on an agenda for scientific research / G.N. Harrington and D. Cassells -- The political agenda / B.W. Davis -- Nature's rights / M. Charlesworth.