Around Australia’s highest mountain lies a rare ecosystem, an alpine area of outstanding beauty and diversity, strikingly different from other alpine ecosystems of the world but with common features. Kosciuszko Alpine Flora describes …
[ Books ] Plants & Fungi — Plants & Fungi / Field and Regional Guides
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC brings needed attention to the threats from climate change for highly vulnerable regions of the developing world. This authoritative volume (along with its companion covering adaptation) …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Climate
The primary aim of this guide is to enable non-specialists to identify the genera and more common species of ants occurring in cool and wet southern Australia. This region represents a distinct biogeographic zone within Australia, and taxa …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history to explore the ‘impulse to conserve’ in the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland. The region is the source of Australia’s major inland-flowing …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Indigenous Australia
Lacewings, strepsipteras, scorpion-flies and fleas are fascinating subjects for behaviour and biological studies. As well, lacewings and fleas are of considerable economic importance. This volume is an essential directory for agricultural …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
The relationship between grain morphology and chemistry and the practical realities of milling, flour yield, dough properties and baking behaviour, are stressed and explained. The quality requirements of flours intended for bread-baking, …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Crops and Pastures
Shaping Science and Industry touches on Australia's intellectual, political and economic life. It provides an account of the rapid growth of CSIR (to become CSIRO) during World War II. The contributions of many outstanding personalities …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Heritage and History
Cricket song is a sound of the Australian bush. Even in cities, the rasping calls signify Australia’s remarkable cricket biodiversity. Crickets are notable for a variety of reasons. When their population booms, some of these species become …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
Sustainability policies shape the ways that society and the economy interact with the environment, natural resources and ecosystems, and address issues such as water, energy and food security, and climate change. These policies are complex …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Sustainability
Australians have a love–hate relationship with spiders. Some spiders, such as the Redback and the Sydney Funnelweb, inspire fear. Yet Peacock Spiders, with their colourful fan-spreading courtship dances, have won rapturous appreciation worldwide. A …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
The future will bring change for Australia. But whether that change is for the better or worse largely depends on the decisions we make today as individuals and as a nation. Recognising rapid changes in the global economy, environment and …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Ideas and Issues
Emergency services personnel conduct their work in situations that are inherently dangerous. Large incidents such as bushfires, floods and earthquakes often pose hazards that are not fully understood at the time of management, and the situation …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Environmental Management
Ecology of Australian Temperate Reefs presents the current state of knowledge of the ecology of important elements of southern Australian sub-tidal reef flora and fauna, and the underlying ecological principles. Preliminary …
[ Books ] Marine & Freshwater — Marine & Freshwater / Marine Ecology
This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else on Earth. Volume 1 contains keys to all …
[ Books ] Animals — Animals / Invertebrates
Precision Agriculture (PA) is an approach to managing the variability in production agriculture in a more economic and environmentally efficient manner. It has been pioneered as a management tool in the grains industry, and while its development …
[ Books ] Food & Agriculture — Food & Agriculture / Crops and Pastures
Cochlear Ltd, together with its university partner and many other collaborators, has returned hearing to over 160 000 people thanks to the development of its hearing implant. This book documents the human story behind that development. It …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Ideas and Issues
Ecological and biodiversity-based monitoring has been marked by an appalling lack of effectiveness and lack of success in Australia for more than 40 years, despite the billions of dollars that are invested in biodiversity conservation annually. …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Environmental Management
The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today. This problem is largely due to the impact humans have had on land use through development …
[ Books ] Natural Environment — Natural Environment / Biodiversity and Ecology
This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian Exploring Expedition as a serious scientific …
[ Books ] Science in Society — Science in Society / Heritage and History