Results of the Archbold Expeditions No. 99 Vegetation changes in the Lake Mamsin area, Saruwaged Plateau, New Guinea

Title Variants

Alternative: Vegetation changes in the Lake Mamsin area, Saruwaged Plateau, New Guinea

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 2628

By

Costin, A. B.

Hoogland, Ruurd D.
Lendon, C.
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea (1964)

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1977

Notes

Title from caption.

"July 15, 1977."

"This area ... was investigated by the first two authors, as members of the Seventh Archbold Expedition to New Guinea in 1964."

"Fossil leaf remains in ca. 5700-year-old lake deposits in the glacial Lake Mamsin (Guam) on rhe Saruwaged Plateau of New Guinea are compared with the floras of present-day grass-heath and forest in the area. The fossil flora is dominated by a broadleaf podocarp of the type now occurring at least 500 m. below the elevation of the lake (3500 m.). Fires of native origin are the most likely cause of the replacement of the former forest by grass-heath around the lake, but subsequently there may have been a cold phase ending about 2600 years ago which depressed the potential upper limit of the podocarp forest"--P. [1].

Subjects

Glacial lakes , New Guinea , Paleobotany , Papua New Guinea , Plant ecology , Plant succession , Plants , Plants, Fossil , Quaternary

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.2628, 1977

Language

English

Identifiers

LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/77372578
OCLC: 3397387801231