Author: G. J. KeigheryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "electronic appendices [to some of the chapters of the book]."
A Biodiversity Survey of the Western Australian Agricultural Zone
Author: G. J. KeigheryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "electronic appendices [to some of the chapters of the book]."
Austral Ark
Author: Adam StowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107033543
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
A detailed, research-informed synthesis of the current issues facing the Australasian biota and the challenges involved in their conservation.
A Breath of Fresh Air
Author: Publisher: The Fraser Institute
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Javi is leaving his Brooklyn home to spend two weeks in the country with the Summer Fresh Air Program. UEB and BANA Braille Grade 2 8 Braille pages .dxb and .brf files for each volume.
Biodiversity and Environmental Change
Author: Emma BurnsPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643108580
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
This data-rich book demonstrates the value of existing national long-term ecological research in Australia for monitoring environmental change and biodiversity. Long-term ecological data are critical for informing trends in biodiversity and environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN). LTERN researchers and other authors in this book have maintained monitoring sites, often for one or more decades, in an array of different ecosystems across the Australian continent – ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment that have occurred in the various systems in which dedicated field-based ecologists have worked. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment in Australia. By presenting trend patterns (and often also the associated data) the authors aim to catalyse governments and other organisations to better recognise the importance of long-term data collection and monitoring as a fundamental part of ecologically-effective and cost-effective management of the environment and biodiversity.
Australian Vegetation
Author: David A. KeithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107118433
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 771
Book Description
This fully updated third edition provides a modern synthesis and review of the latest advances in understanding native vegetation across Australia.
Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians
Author: Harold HeatwolePublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486308392
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Amphibians are among the most threatened groups of animals on earth. In part due to their highly permeable skin, amphibians are highly sensitive to environmental changes and pollution and provide an early-warning system of deteriorating environmental conditions. The more we learn about the impact of environmental changes on amphibians, the better we as humans will be able to arrest their demise, and our own. Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians brings together the current knowledge on the status of the unique frogs of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Although geographically proximate, each region presents unique challenges and opportunities in amphibian research and conservation. This book contributes to an understanding of the current conservation status of the amphibians of each region, aims to stimulate research into halting amphibian declines, and provides a better foundation for making conservation decisions. It is an invaluable reference for environmental and governmental agencies, researchers, policy-makers involved with biodiversity conservation, and the interested public.
Forest Landscape Restoration
Author: John StanturfPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400753268
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a practical approach to forest restoration particularly in developing countries, where an approach which is both large-scale and focuses on meeting human needs is required. Yet despite increased investigation into both the biological and social aspects of FLR, there has so far been little success in systematically integrating these two complementary strands. Bringing experts in landscape studies, natural resource management and forest restoration, together with those experienced in conflict management, environmental economics and urban studies, this book bridges that gap to define the nature and potential of FLR as a truly multidisciplinary approach to a global environmental problem. The book will provide a valuable reference to graduate students and researchers interested in ecological restoration, forest ecology and management, as well as to professionals in environmental restoration, natural resource management, conservation, and environmental policy.
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Author: Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
Author: Camera Trapping
Author: Paul MeekPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486300405
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge. In order for fellow camera trap researchers and managers to share their knowledge and experience, the First International Camera Trapping Colloquium in Wildlife Management and Research was held in Sydney, Australia. Camera Trapping brings together papers from a selection of the presentations at the colloquium and provides a benchmark of the international developments and uses of camera traps for monitoring wildlife for research and management. Four major themes are presented: case studies demonstrating camera trapping for monitoring; the constraints and pitfalls of camera technologies; design standards and protocols for camera trapping surveys; and the identification, management and analyses of the myriad images that derive from camera trapping studies. The final chapter provides future directions for research using camera traps. Remarkable photographs are included, showing interesting, enlightening and entertaining images of animals 'doing their thing'.