Symposium on the Impact of Man on Humid Tropics Vegetation, Goroka, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, September, 1960
By: Sponsored by the Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and UNESCO Science Co-operation Office for South East Asia
Publisher: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Govt. Printer
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Botany; Congresses; Agriculture; Nature; Effect of human beings on
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Physical geography of the Indo-Australian tropics / Robert Ho; title: The physical background of the humid tropics : substratum / F.R. Fosberg; title: Botany and prehistory / E.J.H. Corner; title: The human background / W.R. Geddes; title: The selection, domestication and cultivation of food plants in tropical Oceania in the pre-European Era / J. Barrau; title: A theory of the origin of the coconut / F.R. Fosberg; title: Notes on the origin and introduction of the basic food crops of the New Guinea people / G.P. Keleny; title: Notes on the horticulture of the Enga people of New Guinea / M.J. Meggitt; title: Wild species for foodstuffs and their domestication in the Philippines / E. Quisumbing; title: The evolution of the agricultural environment in Papua and New Guinea / W. Conroy; title: Notes on land arrangements, gardening and hunting in Papua and New Guinea / C.F.W. Julius; title: The effect of fire used by early man on the vegetation of the humid tropics / A. Dilmy; title: ^; title: The effect of man on the forests of the highlands of eastern New Guinea / D.H. McIntosh; title: Social organization and land use pattern with special reference to Indonesia / G.P. Keleny; title: The effects of grazing by the domestic animals of early man on the vegetation of the humid tropics / W.W. Bryan; title: The pig and its place in the impact of the New Guinean on vegetation / T.G. Aitchison; title: Grazing animals and the vegetation of Oceanic islands / F.R. Fosberg; title: Introduction of ruminants to New Guinea / J. Anderson; title: The nature and effects of shifting agriculture / J.M. Blaut; title: Research on the effects of shifting cultivation in Sarawak / J.A.R. Anderson; title: Methods of cultivation among the Kelantan Temiar / T.Y. Carey; title: Shifting cultivation in Thailand / T. Smitinand; title: The effects of shifting cultivation in Western Ghats, India / Y. Satyanarayan; title: The physical processes involved in subsistence agriculture and the necessity therefore / D.J. Kingston; title: ^; title: Nature and detection of plant communities resulting from activities of early man / F.R. Fosberg; title: Cause and effect of soil erosion in Indonesia / K.V. and Merle J. Bailey; title: The nature and origin of secondary vegetational communities in Ceylon / R.A. de Rosayro; title: Factors influencing the establishment of ligneous vegetation in mid-mountain pyro- and anthropogenic grassland / J.J. Havel; title: The anthropogenic grasslands of Papua and New Guinea / R.G. Robbins; title: Recent ethno-botanical studies in the Philippines / E. Quisumbing; title: The influence of man on the vegetation of the humid tropics / A.J.G.H. Kostermans; title: Deflection of secondary succession of cleared mid-mountain rain forest sites by plantation tendings / J.J. Havel; title: The vanishing species of plants in the Philippines / E. Quisumbing; title: The effect of man on the tidal forests of the Gulf of Papua / E.C.G. Gray; title: Social and economic aspects of the effects of early man's action on the vegetation of the humid tropics / J. Barrau; title: ^; title: The pre-contact society in the Goroka Valley / D. Howlett; title: Ancient Filipino communities / R.B. Fox; title: The effects of shifting agriculture on human health and disease / I. Polunin.