Raymond Specht
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Raymond Louis Specht was an Australian plant ecologist, conservationist and academic, who participated in the Arnhem Land Scientific Expedition of 1948. Early life Raymond Louis Specht was born in 1924 in Adelaide, South Australia to Louis and Harriet Specht. He attended Richmond Primary School and Adelaide High School, finishing high school as dux in 1941. Specht intended to pursue teaching as a career. In 1942 he was a student teacher in physics, chemistry and mathematics at Riverton High School.
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Published Works
- Mediterranean-type shrublands (2004) (293)
- Ecosystems of the world [Vol.] 11. Mediterranean-type shrublands. (1981) (197)
- Heathlands and related shrublands (1979) (158)
- Major vegetation formations in Australia (1981) (144)
- Mediterranean-Type Heathlands and Sclerophyllous Shrublands of the World: An Overview (1983) (124)
- Foliage projective cover and standing biomass (1981) (120)
- Mediterranean-type ecosystems : a data source book (1988) (108)
- Sclerophylly and Foliar Nutrient Status of Mediterranean-Climate Plant Communities in Southern Australia (1990) (105)
- The balance between the foliage projective covers of overstorey and understorey strata in Australian vegetation (1981) (96)
- Food variety and biodiversity: Econutrition. (1998) (85)
- Seasonal Shoot Growth of Eucalyptus spp. In the Brisbane Area of Queensland (With Notes on Shoot Growth and Litter Fall in Other Areas of Australia) (1975) (83)
- Inorganic nitrogen assimilation in plants of Austrlian rainforest communities (1988) (65)
- Foliage projective covers of overstorey and understorey strata of mature vegetation in Australia (1983) (64)
- Conservation atlas of plant communities in Australia (1995) (63)
- Moisture Regime and Nutrient Control of Seasonal Growth in Mediterranean Ecosystems (1983) (62)
- Community associations and structure in the Late Cretaceous vegetation of southeast Australasia and Antarctica (1992) (56)
- Structure and Functional Response of Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Climate of Australia (1973) (53)
- The heath‐savannah problem: the effect of fertilizer on sand‐heath vegetation of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland (1977) (46)
- Species richness and canopy productivity of Australian plant communities (1993) (41)
- Mediterranean-type Ecosystems (1988) (36)
- Ecophysiological principles determining the biogeography of major vegetation formations in Australia (1981) (34)
- Nitrate reductase activity and chlorophyll content in sun leaves of subtropical Australian closed-forest (rainforest) and open-forest communities (1990) (32)
- Nutrient release from decomposing leaf litter of Banksia ornata, Dark Island heathland, South Australia (1981) (30)
- Growth indices — Their rôle in understanding the growth, structure and distribution of Australian vegetation (2004) (30)
- Heathlands and Related Shrublands: Analytical Studies (1980) (26)
- Biogeography of halophytic angiosperms (salt-marsh, mangrove and sea-grass) (1981) (23)
- Evolution of the Australian flora: some generalizations (1981) (22)
- Biodiversity of Overstorey Trees in Relation to Canopy Productivity and Stand Density in the Climatic Gradient from Warm Temperate to Tropical Australia (1994) (18)
- Structure, floristics and species richness of plant communities in southeast Queensland. (1991) (16)
- Forested wetlands in Australia (1990) (16)
- Origin and evolution of terrestrial plant communities in the wet-dry tropics of Australia (1988) (15)
- Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. 3. Botany and Plant Ecology. (1960) (15)
- Species richness of vascular plants and vertebrates in relation to canopy productivity (1994) (14)
- The effect of summer drought on vegetation structure in the mediterranean climate region of Australia (1987) (13)
- The ratio of foliar nitrogen to foliar phosphorus: a determinant of leaf attributes and height in life-forms of subtropical and tropical plant communities (2010) (13)
- Heathlands and Related Shrublands... Part A: Descriptive Studies. (Ecosystems of the World 9A) (1981) (12)
- Seasonal waves of asthma: A possible botanical cause (1975) (12)
- Botany and plant ecology (1958) (11)
- Savannah woodland vegetation in the South-East District of South Australia: the influence of evaporative aerodynamics on the foliage structure of the understorey invaded by introduced annuals (2000) (11)
- Nutrition studies (1948) of nomadic Aborigines in Arnhem Land, northern Australia. (2000) (11)
- Foliage structure and shoot growth in heathlands in the mediterranean-type climate of southern Australia and South Africa (1990) (11)
- A method for selecting nature conservation reserves (1983) (11)
- Natural vegetation — ecomorphological characters (1988) (10)
- Climatic control of ecomorphological characters and species richness in mediterranean ecosystems of Australia (1988) (10)
- Climatic control of structure and phenology of foliage shoots in dicotyledonous overstorey and understorey strata of subtropical plant communities in southeast Queensland. (1990) (10)
- A story of data won, data lost and data re-found: the realities of ecological data preservation (2018) (10)
- SPECIES RICHNESS OF PLANT COMMUNITIES: RELATIONSHIP WITH COMMUNITY GROWTH AND STRUCTURE (2013) (10)
- The species richness of vascular plants and amphibia in major plant communities in temperate to tropical Australia: relationship with annual biomass production (2010) (9)
- Structure and species richness in wetland continua on sandy soils in subtropical and tropical Australia (2009) (9)
- The vegetation of North Stradbroke Island, Queensland (1979) (8)
- Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions: Plant invasion and soil seed banks: control by water and nutrients (1991) (7)
- Species richness of rainforest stands on non-serpentinite and serpentinite substrates in the Rockhampton – Marlborough area of central Queensland (2007) (6)
- Development of Ecosystem Research (2011) (6)
- Biodiversity of Terrestrial Ecosystems in Tropical to Temperate Australia (2012) (5)
- Australia: biodiversity of ecosystems (2013) (5)
- Changes in the eucalypt forests of Australia as a result of human disturbance. (1990) (5)
- Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. 4. Zoology (1966) (4)
- Aboriginal Plant Names in Northeastern Arnhem Land: Groote Eylandt - Enindilyakwa Language; Yirrkala - Rirratjingu Language (2006) (4)
- Plant ecology of part of the Mt. Lofty Ranges and a reconnaissance survey of the soils and vegetation of the hundreds of Tatiara, Wirrega and Stirling of county Buckingham. (1949) (3)
- Structure of plant communities: the effect of global warming (2000) (3)
- The mediterranean climate of Australia and its impact on the structure and distribution of vegetation (1984) (3)
- THE VEGETATION OF PEARSON ISLANDS A RE-EXAMINATION FEBRUARY 1960 (1969) (3)
- Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. A Data Source Book. (1990) (3)
- Nutrition and health (1948) of Aborigines in settlements in Arnhem Land, northern Australia. (2000) (3)
- Objective Classification of Plant Communities in Tropical and Subtropical Australia (2002) (2)
- Assessment of Mental Health in Indigenous Australians: The Role of John Ewart Cawte, a Pioneer in Transcultural Research (2014) (2)
- American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (1948): ItsLong-Range Impact (2012) (2)
- Heathlands and Related Shrublands. Volume A, Descriptive Studies and Volume B, Analytical Studies (Ecosystems of the World, Volumes 9A and 9B). (1982) (2)
- Pre-settlement Tree Density In the Eucalypt Open-forest on the Brisbane Tuff (2007) (2)
- Structure and Alpha Biodiversity of Major Plant Communities in South Africa, a Close Biogeographical Relation with Australia (2014) (2)
- Ecosystems of the world. 9. Heathlands and related shrublands. A. Descriptive studies. (1979) (2)
- Management of biodiversity in Australia. (2014) (1)
- Brian Price Billington: 24 February 1923--6 August 2004 (2004) (1)
- The 'Snake Woman Story' of Hemple Bay, Groote Eylandt: An Enindilyakwa Legend of a Tsunami in the Gulf of Carpentaria (2005) (1)
- Australia, Ecosystems of (2001) (1)
- Comment on Conserving What? — The basis for nature conservation reserves in New South Wales 1967–1988 (1990) (1)
- Climate, vegetation, vertebrates and soil/litter invertebrates of mediterranean-type ecosystems — data-banks (1988) (1)
- Productivity studies on heath vegetation in Southern Australia a comment on sampling problems (2008) (1)
- Margaret McArthur Oliver: 1919-2002 (2002) (1)
- The Nomenclature of Some Borreria Species from Northern Australia (1962) (1)
- ORBITUARY: Margaret McArthur Oliver 1919-2002 (2003) (1)
- Short Notice@@@Heathlands and Related Shrublands, A: Descriptive Studies.@@@Heathlands and Related Shrublands, B: Analytical Studies. (1982) (0)
- Structure and Alpha Biodiversity of Major Plant Communities in Chile, a Distant Gondwanan Relation (2015) (0)
- The Flora of Arnhem Land@@@Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Volume 3: Botany and Plant Ecology (1960) (0)
- Soil and litter invertebrates (1988) (0)
- Heathlands and Related Shrublands, Part B. Analytical Studies (1981) (0)
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