Csiro Publishing: 506 books
Interpreting Soil Test Results
What Do All the Numbers Mean?
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Interpreting Soil Test Results is a practical reference enabling soil scientists, environmental scientists, environmental engineers, land holders and others involved in land management to better understand a range of soil test methods and interpret the results of these tests. It also contains a comprehensive...
by George H Kerridge, Allan J Antcliff
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
This book describes 92 of the most popular wine grape varieties currently used by wine makers around the world plus some that may have a place in the future. It builds on the earlier edition of Wine Grape Varieties of Australia, by including new varieties of grape and updating critical information. The...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Biological control of weeds has been practised for over 100 years and Australia has been a leader in this weed management technique. The classical example of control of prickly pears in Australia by the cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum, which was imported from the Americas, helped to set the future...
by Jane Varkulevicius
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
The best groomed and most productive garden is easy when you know what to prune when and how your plants work. Pruning for Flowers and Fruit covers plants in cool-temperate to subtropical climates and is suitable for the home gardener, avid enthusiast as well as the nursery trade and horticultural students....
Clearing a Continent
The Eradication of Bovine Pleuropneumonia from Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Pleuropneumonia has had a long history in Australia. Clearing a Continent: The Eradication of Bovine Pleuropneumonia from Australia is an authoritative monograph on the history, spread, and final eradication of the disease. Based on an enormous amount of research and archive material, the text details...
Dry Times
Blueprint for a Red Land
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. Dry Times: Blueprint for a Red Land provides new insights into how our desert environments and institutions work – and how this affects the people living in them, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike. It shows that the desert...
Wetland Weeds
Causes, Cures and Compromises
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
This comprehensive guide to wetland weeds covers both native and introduced species, ranging from minor or localised environmental problems to those that should not be tolerated in any situation. The author takes a pragmatic approach to weed control, recognising that some weeds may not be possible to...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2010
Diseases of Vegetable Crops in Australia provides a diagnostic guide and a key reference for diseases affecting vegetable crops in Australia. This is an extensively revised and expanded edition of a previous publication that was a standard reference for the Australian vegetable industry. Authors from...
Australian Rainforest Fruits
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This beautifully illustrated field guide covers 504 of the most common fruiting plants found in Australia's eastern rainforests, as well as a few species that are rare in the wild but generally well-known. These spectacular plants can be seen from Cape York to Victoria, with some species also found in...
Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges 1
Orchids, Irises, Lilies, Grass-trees, Mat-rushes and Other Petaloid Monocotyledons
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The Otway region of Victoria, with its temperate rainforests, mountain ash forests, heathlands, plains and coastal dunes, has an extraordinarily rich and diverse flora. The first volume of Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges covers the orchids, irises, lilies, grass-trees, mat-rushes and other petaloid...
Life Cycle Assessment
Principles, Practice and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2009
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services. Interest in LCA has accelerated alongside growing demand to assess and reduce...
by Paul Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Australian Planting Design identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. This new edition guides the reader through all the stages of designing a new...
Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment
A Guide to Their Identification, Ecology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This is an easy to use field guide for identifying the 80 reptile species currently known to occur in the Murray catchment area of New South Wales. Illustrated with high quality colour photographs, the book describes the key distinguishing features of each reptile and includes details on habitats and...
Sprinter and Sprummer
Australia's Changing Seasons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Sprinter and Sprummer challenges the traditional four seasons, and encourages us to think about how we view changes in our natural world. Since 1788, Australia has carried the yoke of four European seasons that make no sense in most parts of the country. We may like them for historical or cultural reasons,...