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Eucalypt Ecology: Individuals to Ecosystems Edited by Jann Williams and John Woinarski, 1997 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 430 pp ISBN 0 521 49740 X RRP AUD$ 125.00 Hardback
EUCALYPT ecologists in Australia finally have a text that is a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge on eucalypt ecology. This book incorporates and expands on ideas found in Eucalyptus, the Universal Australian by Pry or and Johnson (1981) and Pryor's (1976) The Biology of Eucalypts.
The editors state that the aims of this book were to "review understanding of, and provide new insights into, the ecology of eucalypts and closely related taxa, and of eucalypt-dominated ecosystems." This book achieves that goal and does so by drawing on the wealth of knowledge of the contributing authors. Ian Brooker, Jonathan Majer, Ian Noble, Tony Norton, Harry Recher, Jann Williams and John Woinarski are only a few of the notable authors who contributed to this book.
The text is comprised of sixteen chapters. Fourteen chapters are on specific topics relating to eucalypt ecology. There is also a general introduction and conclusion chapter. The topics covered range from phylogenetic history' and classification to fungal diversity and the ecology of invertebrates and...