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Floristics of Australian Granitoid Inselberg Vegetation

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 146))

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Perhaps the most famous Australian landscape icon is the inselberg Uluru (Ayer’s Rock), a 350 m tall arkose sandstone monolith emergent from the red sandplain of central Australia (Breeden 1994). Although rarely as big or striking in their insularity, inselbergs of granitoid rocks are found in local regions across Australia, being especially common and conspicuous in the flat terrain of Western Australia (Withers and Hopper 1997).

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Hopper, S.D. (2000). Floristics of Australian Granitoid Inselberg Vegetation. In: Porembski, S., Barthlott, W. (eds) Inselbergs. Ecological Studies, vol 146. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59773-2_18

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