Geoff Tracey

Not to be confused with Jeff Tracy.

Geoff Tracey
AM
Tracey on Atherton Tableland. 1954.
Born
John Geoffrey Tracey

1930
Cairns, Queensland
Died30 July 2004
Yungaburra, Queensland
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater
Known for
SpouseReinhild Tracey[3]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsCSIRO
Websitehttps://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/tracey-geoff.html

John Geoffrey Tracey AM (1930 – 30 July 2004) was an Australian ecologist and botanist whose pioneering research work in partnership with Dr. Leonard Webb AO within the Rainforest Ecology Unit of the CSIRO in the 1950s led to the publication of the first systematic classification of Australian rainforest vegetation in the Journal of Ecology in 1959.[8][9] By the early 80's, after decades of ongoing research, Tracey and Webb had accumulated a significant corpus of scientific evidence in support of the theory that Australian tropical rainforests had evolved in Gondwana over 100 million years ago and were not, as previously believed, relatively recent arrivals from South East Asia.[10][11][12] This evidence, in combination with Tracey and Webb's 1975 publication of a collection of 15 vegetation maps entitled "Vegetation of the Humid Tropical Region of North Queensland",[13] and Tracey's 1982 paper "The Vegetation of the Humid Tropical Region of North Queensland",[14] helped to establish the scientific basis for a number of major conservation campaigns across Queensland and paved the way for the subsequent successful World Heritage nomination of the Wet Tropics of Queensland by Aila Keto in 1988.[15][16][17][18]

  1. ^ "Mr John Geoffrey Tracey". Australian Honours Search Facility: Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Wet Tropics Management Authority Honour Roll" – via Wet Tropics Management Authority.
  3. ^ "Visionary Botanist had a love of the rainforest (obituary)". The Cairns Post. 9 August 2004.
  4. ^ Price, J. R.; Lamberton, J. A.; Culvenor, C.C.J (1992), The Australian Phytochemical Survey: historical aspects of the CSIRO search for new drugs in Australian plants. Historical Records of Australian Science, 9(4), Australian Academy of Science, pp. 335, 336
  5. ^ Tracey, J.G. (27 April 1982). "The vegetation of the humid tropical region of North Queensland" – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Webb, L. J. (Leonard James), 1920-2008; Tracey, J. G. (John Geoffrey), 1920-2004 (1981), Australian Rainforests: Patterns and Change (Ecological Biogeography of Australia, vol. 1 p. 605-694), The Hague: W. Junk, hdl:102.100.100/292256{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Webb, L. J.; Tracey, J. G.; Williams, W.T. (1984), Floristic framework of Australian rainforests. Australian Journal of Ecology. Vol. 13 pp. 269-276, Australian Journal of Ecology 13:269-276., hdl:102.100.100/277738
  8. ^ Borschmann, Gregg (1999). The People's Forest - The Field Botanist (John Geoffrey Tracey). The People's Forest Press. pp. 218–221. ISBN 0-646-36939-3.
  9. ^ Webb, Len (1 October 1959). "A Physiognomic Classification of Australian Rain Forests" (PDF). Journal of Ecology. 47 (3). British Ecological Society : Journal of Ecology Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 551-570: 551–570. doi:10.2307/2257290. JSTOR 2257290. S2CID 87194512. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2020.
  10. ^ Webb, L. J. (Leonard James), 1920-2008; Tracey, J. G. (John Geoffrey), 1920-2004 (1981), Australian Rainforests: Patterns and Change (Ecological Biogeography of Australia, vol. 1 p. 605-694), The Hague: W. Junk, hdl:102.100.100/292256{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Webb, L. J.; Tracey, J. G.; Williams, W.T. (1984), Floristic framework of Australian rainforests. Australian Journal of Ecology. Vol. 13 pp. 269-276, Australian Journal of Ecology 13:269-276., hdl:102.100.100/277738
  12. ^ Sanderson, Rachel (1 May 2008). "Re-writing the History of Australian Tropical Rainforests: 'Alien Invasives' or 'Ancient Indigenes'?". Environment and History. 14 (2): 165–185. doi:10.3197/096734008X303719. JSTOR 20723663.
  13. ^ Tracey, J.G.; Webb, L.J. (27 April 1975). "Vegetation of the humid tropical region of North Queensland" – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^ Tracey, J.G. (27 April 1982). "The vegetation of the humid tropical region of North Queensland" – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ Borschmann, Gregg (1999). The People's Forest - The Field Botanist (John Geoffrey Tracey). The People's Forest Press. pp. 218–221. ISBN 0-646-36939-3.
  16. ^ "State of the Wet Tropics Report 2017-18" (PDF). The Wet Tropics Management Authority. 1 December 2018. p. 46 – via Federal Dept. Environment.
  17. ^ Stanton, J. P. (James Peter); Borschmann, Gregg (Gregg John), 1955- (Interviewer) (1994), Peter Stanton interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the Environmental awareness in Australia oral history project, p. 111, retrieved 3 September 2020 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Tracey, J. G. (John Geoffrey); Borschmann, Gregg (Gregg John), 1955- (Interviewer) (1994), John Tracey interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the People's forest oral history project, pp. 44, 52, retrieved 22 February 2021 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)