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Patterns in north Queensland mangrove vegetation
Author(s) -
BUCKLEY R. C.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1442-9993
pISSN - 0307-692X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1982.tb01306.x
Subject(s) - mangrove , ecology , vegetation (pathology) , geography , range (aeronautics) , biology , medicine , pathology , materials science , composite material
This note suggests an additional interpretation of analyses of north Queensland tidal forest vegetation recently presented by Bunt & Williams (1980a). They separated 30 species associations defined by various combinations of 11 defining species, and showed that these associations do not form a single invariant zonal sequence, as implied previously by Macnae (1966). Their results do indicate, however, that individual mangrove species are characteristically associated with different sections of the overall tidal range. This does not contradict their conclusions but rather places a different emphasis on their results.