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Adaptations in the Southwest Australia Flora. Byron Lamont
25 March, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
We will examine the geological history of Western Australia from when it was attached to Antarctica 150 million years ago. The climate has oscillated between tropical paradises to bleak deserts but the mediterranean climate commencing 10-20 million years is the most notable. No other group of plants is better adapted to extreme summer droughts or dry-season fires, to the world’s most impoverished soils and to unique pollinators and herbivores. The outcome is a unique flora that currently accounts for one-third of all species in Australia within an area that covers just 4% of the continent.
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