Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forests
About the book
Esther Beaton accompanied David Lindenmayer, a well-known forest ecologist, over a one year period into these virtually unknown forests on Melbourne’s doorstep. Some areas have been protected from human traffic for 100 years because they were part of Melbourne’s water supply. Other parts of the forest were mercilessly logged, thereby threatening the survival of Leadbeater’s Possum and other species. With the help of Esther’s photography, David’s message to conserve these forests is now able to reach a much wider segment of the public. The book has been greeted with excellent reviews such as this excerpt:
“The photographs are stunning and fully capture the flavour of Mountain Ash forests, and, perhaps surprisingly for the text of a top-class research scientist, the words fill your ears with the sound and your nose with the smells of the forest... Many of the photographs contain artistic side plots on top of the image that first meets the eye, and although it’s hard not to discover something spiritual, the text is loaded with the knowledge that comes from a dedicated scientist... Readers are bound to gain a new understanding of important possum concepts including time scales, tree hollows, sap flows, crown shyness, self-thinning and decomposition. Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forests represents an excellent collaboration between a photographer and a scientist.”
~ Richard Major, Australian Museum
Life in the Tall Eucalypt Forests
96 pages, softcover. 130 colour photos.
New Holland Publishers, Sydney.
ISBN 1 87633 452 5
RRP AU$29.95, inc GST
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