Rainforest Climbing Plants

"An identification guide to rainforest climbing plants from Victoria, New South Wales and subtropical Queensland using vegetative features."--Provided by publisher.

Rainforest climbing plants: a field guide to the rainforest climbing plants of New South Wales using vegetative characters.

Climbing plants, including lianas, represent a fascinating component of the ecology of tropical forests. This book focuses on the climbing plants of West African forests. Based on original research, it presents information on the flora (including a checklist), diversity (with overviews at several levels of integration), ecology (distribution, characteristics in relation to environment, their role in forest ecosystems) and ethnobotany. Forestry aspects, such as their impact on tree growth and development, and the effects of forestry interventions on climbers are also covered.

This is a field guide to the rainforest trees and shrubs of Victoria, NSW, and sub-tropical Queensland, using vegetative characters.

This 1992 book is a treatment of what was known about climbing plants, written by a group of experts.