Rain Forests of the Ok Tedi Headwaters, New Guinea: An Ecological Analysis

Hyndman, David; Menzies, J. I.

doi:10.2307/2845122

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“…These include various cuscuses (Phalangeridae), ringtail possums (Pseudocheiridae), tree kangaroos and small wallabies (Macropodidae), as well as giant rats (Muridae). This is consistent with observations of Wopkaimin hunting activities in the 1970s and 80s, as reported by Hyndman and others (Hyndman, 1984, Hyndman andMenzies, 1990). By contrast, the Strickland River sample is dominated by fish bone (primarily catfish, Family Ariidae) with much lesser amounts of small reptiles, frogs, birds and mammals, the latter including small quantities of pig (Sus scrofa).…”

Section: Ethnographic Examples Of Highly Burned Assemblagessupporting

confidence: 90%

Using a 3-stage burning categorization to assess post-depositional degradation of archaeofaunal assemblages: Some observations based on multiple prehistoric sites in Australasia

Aplin

Manne

Attenbrow

2016

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Section: Ethnographic Examples Of Highly Burned Assemblagessupporting

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Using a 3-stage burning categorization to assess post-depositional degradation of archaeofaunal assemblages: Some observations based on multiple prehistoric sites in Australasia

Aplin

Manne

Attenbrow

2016

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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“…The best-described pioneer genus for Australasian rainforests is Macaranga (e.g., Pendleton 1949;Flenley 1969;Hopkins & Graham 1983;Hyndman & Menzies 1990); species in this genus are short lived and fast growing. Although M. harveyana occurs in Tonga, it was uncommon in the plots surveyed in 1995 (four stems).…”

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Regeneration and growth of pioneer and shade‐tolerant rain forest trees in Tonga

Franklin

2003

New Zealand Journal of Botany

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Size distributions were analysed for 25 tree species (4331 individuals) from among those recorded in 64 plots in the Vava'u island group, Kingdom of Tonga, in 1995. These species were assigned to four groups representing their regeneration patterns (association with either gaps or low light microsites as seedlings and/or as larger trees). The distribution of tree diameters was calculated from early-(n = 28) and late-successional (n = 36) plots to determine where the species were regenerating. Six years later 1110 of these trees were remeasured. Average net growth increment was used as an estimate of growth rate, and maximum growth increment as potential growth rate, for each species. Most shade-tolerant, late successional species had low growth rates and a lognormal size distribution in latesuccessional plots, as expected. One species in this group, however, had the highest estimated average growth rate in the study. The second group of species, found in shade as seedlings but abundant as small trees in early-successional plots (e.g., "midsuccessional"), as well as the third group, found in gaps as seedlings but most abundant in late-successional plots, shared high growth rates. The fourth group, pioneer species establishing in large gaps, were not regenerating in late-successional plots but, unexpectedly, had estimated growth rates comparable to the other groups. Tongan rain forest has diverse regeneration functional types, analogous to those found in richer continental tropical forest, but perhaps represented by different numbers of tree species.

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“…They also appear to replace each other in an eastwest fashion along the Central Cordillera, with Leptomys in the Owen Stanley Range and in the eastern and central highlands in the eastern region of the Cordillera, and Paraleptomys in the Star and Snow mountains in the west. Unquestionably, Leptomys is truly absent from the western portion of the Cordillera, for within all of New Guinea, it is in the Snow and Star mountains where small mammals have been most intensively collected and studied (Archbold et al, 1942;Flannery and Seri, 1990;Hyndman and Menzies, 1990;Morren, 1989;Tate and Archbold, 1941;Tate, 1951;Helgen, 2007a). Further studies are clearly needed to assess the phylogenetic and ecological similarities between Leptomys and Paraleptomys.…”

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Systematic Review of New Guinea Leptomys (Muridae, Murinae) with Descriptions of Two New Species

Musser¹,

Helgen²,

Lunde³

2008

Am Museum Novitates

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Rain Forests of the Ok Tedi Headwaters, New Guinea: An Ecological Analysis

Cited by 36 publications

References 7 publications

Using a 3-stage burning categorization to assess post-depositional degradation of archaeofaunal assemblages: Some observations based on multiple prehistoric sites in Australasia

Using a 3-stage burning categorization to assess post-depositional degradation of archaeofaunal assemblages: Some observations based on multiple prehistoric sites in Australasia

Regeneration and growth of pioneer and shade‐tolerant rain forest trees in Tonga

Systematic Review of New Guinea Leptomys (Muridae, Murinae) with Descriptions of Two New Species

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