Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Agrindex
Author: Arid Land Ecosystems: Volume 1
Author: R. A. PerryPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521218429
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
This comprehensive account of arid-land ecosystems will be of importance to university teachers and professional ecologists throughout the world.
The Delicate and Noxious Scrub
Author: JC NoblePublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643106170
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Semi-arid woodlands are an important part of the Australian landscape and they have been the focus for scientific research by CSIRO since the 1960s. This book reviews that research and sets it in a historical perspective. It examines the development of pastoral science, with particular reference to the farming frontier in western New South Wales, as well as research conducted by CSIRO over the past thirty years aimed at helping manage increasing shrub densities while improving productivity. The author discusses past, current and future research directions and looks at how management perceptions and approaches continue to change as understanding of ecological processes and new strategies evolve.
Dust Bowl
Author: Janette-Susan BaileyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137589078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.
Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, a Keyword Index
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Australian Vegetation
Author: R. H. GrovesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521424769
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Australian vegetation has interested botanists and naturalists since Europeans first encountered Australia and its plant life. This 1994 edition of Australian Vegetation reviews the vegetation of the continent as a whole. In the introductory section, chapters on phytogeography, vegetation history and alien plants set the scene for further sections covering all the major vegetation types. The plant life of extreme Australian habitats is also discussed, and the book closes with a chapter on the conservation of Australian vegetation. Each chapter, written by experts on each particular habitat type, will inform and stimulate the interests of students and professional botanists, especially those fortunate enough to see for themselves the unique vegetation and flora of Australia.
Quick Bibliography Series
Author: Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, 1975
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Land Degradation
Author: Anthony ChisholmPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521340799
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This book presents a broad multi-disciplinary perspective on the challenge of problems of degrading land.
Interpreting Soil Test Results
Author: Pam HazeltonPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486303986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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 description of the soil properties relevant to many environmental and natural land resource issues and investigations. This new edition has an additional chapter on soil organic carbon store estimation and an extension of the chapter on soil contamination. It also includes sampling guidelines for landscape design and a section on trace elements. The book updates and expands sections covering acid sulfate soil, procedures for sampling soils, levels of nutrients present in farm products, soil sodicity, salinity and rainfall erosivity. It includes updated interpretations for phosphorus in soils, soil pH and the cation exchange capacity of soils. Interpreting Soil Test Results is ideal reading for students of soil science and environmental science and environmental engineering; professional soil scientists, environmental scientists, engineers and consultants; and local government agencies and as a reference by solicitors and barristers for land and environment cases.