Csiro Publishing: 506 books
Forest Conservation Genetics
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2000
Forest management must be sustainable not only in ecological, economic and social, but also genetic terms. Many forest managers are advocating and developing management strategies that give priority to conserving genetic diversity within production systems, or that recognise the importance of genetic...
New Forests
Wood Production and Environmental Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
There is no question that the timber industry needs to adopt sustainable practices that ensure a future for the industry. This book goes well beyond simply growing commercial tree plantations for wood production. It explores new forests that can supply environmental services such as salinity mitigation...
Defending the Social Licence of Farming
Issues, Challenges and New Directions for Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
Issues including climate variability, water scarcity, animal welfare and declining biodiversity have led to increasing demands on farmers to conduct and communicate their farming practices so as to protect their ‘social licence to farm’. Farmers are increasingly expected to demonstrate their social...
by Derrick Stone
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national parks, coastal parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local...
Following Burke and Wills Across Australia
A Touring Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Every Australian has heard of Burke and Wills but few have travelled in their footsteps. In 2008, historian Dave Phoenix decided to walk across Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria, following the track taken by the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition. Now you can follow them too. Following...
Life in a Gall
The Biology and Ecology of Insects that Live in Plant Galls
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
What are plant galls and how are they caused? This book introduces the Australian native insects that induce galls on plants and the plant species that host them. It explores the ways the insects have adapted to living part of their lives in the confined spaces of galls, and describes the strategies...
Echidna
Extraordinary Egg-Laying Mammal
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2006
The echidna is one of the world’s most extraordinary creatures. It is a living fossil whose relatives were walking the earth over 100 million years ago. Like the platypus, it is a mammal that lays eggs. And, like all mammals, it has fur and produces milk. This book describes the echidna’s lifestyle...
by Jill Silsby
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2001
Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive and accessible overview of one of the world’s most popular insect groups, the Odonata. Written for interested amateurs as well as more experienced professionals, Dragonflies of the World covers their evolution, ecology, behaviour, physiology and taxonomy....
Australian Rainforest Woods
Characteristics, Uses and Identification
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Australian Rainforest Woods describes 141 of the most significant Australian rainforest trees and their wood. The introductory sections draw the reader into an understanding of the botanical, evolutionary, environmental, historical and international significance of this beautiful but finite Australian...
by David Lindsay
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many researchers, who, in all other respects, are competent scientists, are afraid of writing. They are wary of the unwritten rules, the unspoken dogma and the inexplicably complex style, all of which seem to pervade conventional thinking...
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills
Forgotten Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61. A main theme of the book is the contrast between the skills, perceptions and knowledge of the Indigenous people and those of the new arrivals, and the extent to...
Flooded Forest and Desert Creek
Ecology and History of the River Red Gum
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia, forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the structural and functional elements of important floodplain and wetland ecosystems. Along ephemeral creeks in the arid Centre...
Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia
Perspectives of Early Colonists
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal...
Desert Channels
The Impulse to Conserve
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
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 desert rivers. Some of Australia’s most interesting new conservation...