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The land resources of Cobourg Peninsula

Details:

Title

The land resources of Cobourg Peninsula

Other title

by B. Wood and D. Sivertsen

Creator

Wood, B.; Sivertsen, D.; Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT

Date

1986-02-26

Location

Cobourg Peninsula

Description

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).; This report describes a land system survey over the Cobourg Peninsula broadly describing landform, soils and vegetation to assist the effective planning and management of the area as a National Park.

Notes

Date:1986

Table of contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Summary Descriptions -- 3. Land Systems -- 4. Soils -- 5. Vegetation -- Appendices -- Acknowledgements.

Language

English

Subject

Land use -- Northern Territory -- Cobourg Peninsula; Vegetation mapping -- Northern Territory -- Cobourg Peninsula

Publisher name

Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory

Place of publication

Darwin

Format

iv, 80, [6] p. : col. ills. ; 30 cm.

File type

application/pdf.

Copyright owner

Check within Publication or with content Publisher.

Related links

http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=2DBCB77120E006B6E040CD9B0F274EFE; http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=2DBCB77120E006B6E040CD9B0F274EFE [NTLIS Metadata Tool]

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/236288

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/642546

Page content

Commun ity 12 - Mid High Closed Forest to Tall Closed Forest (MHCF-TCF); 1 Site; 20,940 Ha Key Oesc ri pt io n: Variable hei9ht, closed canopy shrubs and trees of the mangrove zone. Many species. The mangrove communities of Cobourg Peninsula tend to fall in the Mid High to Tall Closed Forest range with some areas of Low Closed For.est or shrub lands. They also incorporate extensive, unvegetated mudflats. No de?cription is to be given for each stratum for those reasons mentioned above. The species 1 ist (Appendix V) conta"ins the names of all the man grove spec ies so far coll ected from the area. - 66