Plant Life of Western Australia
By:Alex George,John S. Beard
Published on 2016-01-05 by
Dr Beard came to Western Australia in 1961 as Foundation Director of the Botanic Garden being established in Perths Kings Park. The garden, officially opened in 1965, has become one of Perths major attractions for visitors and the local population. It has a scientific as well as popular function, being principally devoted to study of the biology and horticulture of native plants. Dr Beard rapidly became one of the leading botanists with expertise in the States plants and produced a Descriptive Catalogue of Western Australian Plants in 1965. In 1964, in collaboration with the Department of Geography at the University of Western Australia, he established a project known as the Vegetation Survey of WA which aimed at mapping the plant cover of the entire State. Series of vegetation maps were produced and the project was finally completed in 1981. About 200,000 km were covered by vehicle in 17 years. As a result Dr Beard acquired an unrivalled knowledge of the landscapes and their plant cover over the whole immense area of Western Australia. The ecologist travelling through a stretch of country is aware not only of the plant species present and their arrangement into communities, but of the whole structure of the landscape, its geology, its forms in mountains, hills and plains, ant the climate past and present. This is more than an ordinary degree of awareness, and it is in the hope of sharing some of it with others that this book has been written. This book is an interpretation designed for the general reader. It was first published in 1990. John Beard died in 2011. This new edition has been revised by Alex George. The book makes maximum use of colour illustrations, to which the subject particularly lends itself. The author took about 2000 colour slides in the course of this extensive field work, and over 500 of the best of these feature prominently in the book.
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