John Cann & Ross Sadlier, CSIRO Publishing, 2017; RRP A$150 This is a large, handsome hardback book detailing this country’s freshwater turtles and also containing some information and photographs of New Guinea’s turtles. Each genus of turtle has its own section, with three or four pages of information on that ...
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UWA Publishing. RRP $45 Authors: Jason C. Stevens, Deanna P. Rokich, Vernon J. Newton, Russell L. Barrett and Kingsley W. Dixon With Commonwealth Government proclaiming the Banksia woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain as a threatened ecological community, any study of this community is welcome. This book looks specifically at restoration ...
Read more →CSIRO Publishing. RRP $24.95 While probably aimed at teenage readers, Animal Eco-Warriors is enjoyable read for all ages. The book consists of thirteen fascinating chapters, each focussing on an example of how a particular species is used to assist scientists in investigating and mitigating environmental problems. Dogs feature in a ...
Read more →GigaSaurier: die Riesen Argentiniens. Autoren, Oscar Alcober [and five others]; Übersetzung und Edition, Ilona Hauser, Bernd Herkner. Venedig [Italy]: Cubo Srl; Frankfurt am Main: Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, [2010]. QE861.9.A7 G55 2010x This book was produced in 2010 by the Frankfurter Schenkenberg Nature Museum as part of an exhibition on ...
Read more →Paperback | May 2017 | $ 49.95 ISBN: 9780643097544 | 576 pages | 245 x 170 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Colour Paintings, Maps – See more at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6520/#details At 576 pages, this is a large, comprehensive review of Australia’s more than 900 bird species. It has many excellent features, the ...
Read more →Paperback | June 2017 | $ 49.95 ISBN: 9780643107076 | 464 pages | 215 x 148 mm Publisher: CSIRO Publishing Colour photographs – See more at: https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6899/ With its clear, comprehensive, beautiful images and sensible layout, this is a great book for the amateur arachnophile. To begin with there is ...
Read more →This book is an excellent field guide for those looking at our plants in the South West (Noongar country) who are curious to know how useful they were to Aboriginal and other Australians. Vivienne Hansen speaks from an Aboriginal perspective and links in with the larger Australian community. This link ...
Read more →Erickson, Todd E., Barrett, Russell L., Merritt, David J. and Dickson, Kingsley W. (eds) (2016) Pilbara seed atlas and field guide: plant restoration in Australia’s Arid Northwest. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton, Vic. The Pilbara is an area we associate with mining particularly of iron ore and, previously, for its pastoral industry. ...
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