Author: A. J. McCombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salt marsh ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Samphire Marshes of the Peel-Harvey Estuarine System
Author: A. J. McCombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Salt marsh ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Ernest Hodgkin's Swanland
Author: Anne BrearleyPublisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1920694382
Category : Estuarine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Synthesis of the results of may years of research on Estuarine environments form the Murchison to Esperance, Western Australia.
Gondwanan Heritage
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A text, based on papers given at a symposium in Perth, discusses the plants, fungi and animals of WA. Examines their place in the environment, their evolution, their biology and their interaction as well as the fossil history of the flora and the evolution of genetic systems. The introductory chapter provides an overview, while subsequent chapters are grouped around themes. Includes colour plates, diagrams, charts and an index.
Limnology in Australia
Author: P. de DeckkerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400948204
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
Australia is the world's driest inhabited continent. Water is our limiting resource. It might therefore be thought that our water resources would be the subject of the most intensive study. Certain aspects, it must be conceded, have received much attention, notably the availability of water in terms of actual quantity. The size of the surface water and the groundwater resource is well understood and indeed receives about as much study as can reasonably be expected in a country with as sparse a population and level of scientific manpower as ours. Although the importance of understanding the water resource in terms of quantity is widely accepted, what has not been generally appreciated is that for this resource to be 'available' to human society for all the different uses to which it is put, it is not sufficient that there exists within easy reach of the end users a certain total volume of water. For that water to fulfil its functions-for agriculture, industry, the home, recreation, biological conservation-it must be in a certain state: it must conform to certain chemical, physical and biological criteria, and what has not been sufficiently appreciated in Australian society is that the condition a water is in depends very much on the ecology of the waterbody in which it resides. There are waterbodies in the world, for example high-altitude glacial lakes, which are naturally so pristine that their water could be used for any purpose without treatment.
Natural History of Gulf St Vincent
Author: Royal Society of South AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Monographiae Biologicae
Author: Patrick De DeckkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Australian National Bibliography
Author: Estuaries and Nutrients
Author: Bruce J. NeilsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146125826X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Estuaries are eternally enriched. Their positions at the foot of watersheds and their convenience as receiving bodies for the wastes of cites, towns and farms results in continuous addition of nutrients - those elements and compounds which are essential for organic production. Such materials must be added to these complex bodies of water to sustain production, since there is a net loss of water and its contents to the oceans. Enrichment from land and the ocean and the subsequent cycling of the original chemicals or their derivatives contribute to the extraordinarily high values of estuaries for human purposes. Many estuaries are able to assimilate large quantities of nutrients despite the great fluctuations which occur with variations in the flow from tributaries. The nutrients can be stored, incorporated in standing crops of plants, released, cycled and exported - and the system frequently achieves high production of plants and and animals without creation of any undesirable results of enrichment. Excessive enrichment with the same elements and compounds can, however, be highly detrimental to estuaries and their uses. Coastal cities are usually located on the estuaries which provided a harbor for the- and which now receive partially treated sewage and other wastes from the expanding population and industrial activity. Conversion of woodlands to agricultural use and the extensive application of fertilizers have resulted in the flow of large quantities of nutrients down the hill or slopes and eventually into the estuary.
Wetlands and people
Author: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)Publisher: International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
ISBN: 9290907843
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
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