Csiro Publishing: 506 books
by IFB Common
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1990
This is the first comprehensive, reliable, well-illustrated book covering the enormous diversity of Australian moths, summarising our knowledge of them by the acknowledged experts in the field. The text includes nomenclature and a wealth of information on distribution, larval food plants, and the fascinating...
Dinosaurs in Australia
Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Over the last few decades our understanding of what Australia was like during the Mesozoic Era has changed radically. A rush of new fossil discoveries, together with cutting-edge analytical techniques, has created a much more detailed picture of ancient life and environments from the great southern continent....
The Ants of Northern Australia
A Guide to the Monsoonal Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Ants are one of the most important faunal groups in Australia and are widely used as bioindicators in land monitoring and assessment programs. The Ants of Northern Australia will help in the identification of the 1500 or more ant species occurring in monsoonal Australia, an area which encompasses most...
A Natural History of Australian Bats
Working the Night Shift
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
To hold a little microbat in your hand, its body the size of the end of your thumb, is nothing but astounding. Its head is nearly the size of a man’s fingernail, its tiny ears are twitching as it struggles to get free, and then it bares its teeth to try and scare you into letting it go. Inside that...
Australian Palms
Biogeography, Ecology and Systematics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Australian Palms offers an updated and thorough systematic and taxonomic treatment of the Australian palm flora, covering 60 species in 21 genera. Of these, 54 species occur in continental Australia and six species on the off-shore territories of Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and Christmas Island....
by Simon Rickard
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2011
This book takes a fresh look at garden-worthy plants for Australian conditions. It will help gardeners to reappraise their climate, select appropriate plants and modify gardening practices to create beautiful gardens featuring native and exotic plants with proven drought tolerance, reliability and minimal...
by Lee K Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Queensland is home to 70% of Australia’s native mammals (226 species), over 70% of native birds (630 species), just over half of the nation’s native reptiles (485) and native frogs (127), and more than 11 000 native plant species. Hundreds of these have a threatened status in Queensland. In order...
Living Waters
Ecology of Animals in Swamps, Rivers, Lakes and Dams
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Wetlands are often seen as the ultimate symbol of beauty and tranquillity, their clear waters sheltering mysterious animals in a world where change is gentle and slow, from dragonflies skimming above their own reflections to the fishes glimpsed briefly below. Yet Australian wetlands are among the most...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
Monitoring is integral to all aspects of policy and management for threatened biodiversity. It is fundamental to assessing the conservation status and trends of listed species and ecological communities. Monitoring data can be used to diagnose the causes of decline, to measure management effectiveness...
Forensics, Fossils and Fruitbats
A Field Guide to Australian Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Forensics, Fossils and Fruitbats is a fascinating collection of more than 70 profiles of Australian scientists from 15 fields of physical, biological and medical science. These scientists have been selected because their research is inspiring, intriguing or simply quirky, or because they have taken an...
by Bruce Thomson, Martyn Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Australia is a land of many unique animals, some of which are active only during the cooler evening and night-time and so are rarely seen. These are the after dark animals so widespread yet so little noticed by humans, whether in our backyards, the arid desert, woodlands or rainforest. Australian Wildlife...
Recovering Australian Threatened Species
A Book of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Australia’s nature is exceptional, wonderful and important. But much has been lost, and the ongoing existence of many species now hangs by a thread. Against a relentless tide of threats to our biodiversity, many Australians, and government and non-government agencies, have devoted themselves to...
Flood Country
An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia. Even so, floods have often been experienced as natural disasters, which have led to major engineering schemes. Flood Country explores the contested and...
Living with Fire
People, Nature and History in Steels Creek
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range. The escarpment walls of the range drop in a series of ridges to the valley and form the south-eastern boundary of the Kinglake National Park. The...