Person
Latz, Peter Kenneth (1941 - )
- Born
- 1941
- Occupation
- Agrostologist and Botanist
Summary
Peter Latz developed the collection of the Alice Springs Herbarium, together with David Albrecht, with important arid Northern Territory specimen from the Darwin Herbarium. Peter Latz has published articles and books on Australian plants, particularly on grasses and arid vegetation.
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Chronology
- 2021
- Award - Australian Natural History Medallion, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Related entries
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Maconochie, J. R. (John Richard); Latz, P. K. (Peter Kenneth); Nelson, D. J. (Desmond J.); and Mass, Nuri, Australian plants (Picnic Point, NSW: Society for Growing Australian Plants, 1974), 46 pp. Details
Conference Papers
- Latz, P. K., 'The ecological implications of current trends in the use of Aboriginal controlled arid lands: future land use trends and possibilities', in What future for Australia's arid lands? : proceedings of the National Arid Lands Conference, Broken Hill, New South Wales, May 21-25, 1982 edited by John Messer & Geoff Mosley (Hawthorn, VIC: Australia Conservation Foundation, 1983), pp. 163-164.. Details
Journal Articles
- Campbell, Maxwell, '2021 Australian Natural History Medallion: Peter Latz', The Victorian naturalist, 139 (2) (2022), 55-7. Details
- Clarke, Peter J; Latz, Peter K.; Albrecht, David E., 'Long-term changes in semi-arid vegetation: Invasion of an exotic perennial grass has larger effects than rainfall variability.', Journal of Vegetation Science, 16 (2) (2005), 237-248. Details
- Woinarski, J. C. Z; Brennan, K; Cowie, I; Fisher, A; Latz, P. K.; and Russell-Smith, J, 'Vegetation of the Wessel and English Company Islands, North-eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia', Australian Journal of Botany, 48 (1) (2000), 115-141. Details
Resources
- 'Latz, P K (1941-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-466293. Details
- Northern Territory Herbarium, History of plant collection in the Northern Territory, Northern Territory Government, 2012, http://www.nretas.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/3723/history_of_nt_herbarium.pdf. Details
Christine Moje
Created: 24 July 2012, Last modified: 31 October 2013
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