Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia
Title | Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia PDF eBook |
Author | H. Lambers |
Publisher | Apollo Books |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Botany |
ISBN | 9781742585642 |
"A thorough revision and expansion of Pate and Beard's Kwongan--Plant Life of the Sandplain (1984)"--Page 4 of cover.
Plant Life of Southwestern Australia
Title | Plant Life of Southwestern Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Philip K. Groom |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3110370190 |
Southwestern Australia is unique as it contains the world’s most nutrient-impoverished soils, experiences a prolonged-summer period and the vegetation is extremely fire-prone. It is also world-renowned for its relative high level of flora biodiversity. This book focuses on the diverse range of morphological and physiological adaptations evolved by the flora to survive in the harsh Mediterranean-type climate.
Plant Life of Western Australia
Title | Plant Life of Western Australia PDF eBook |
Author | John Stanley Beard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN |
Written by former Director of King's Park Botanic Garden in Perth and leading botanical authority, this profusely illustrated study of plant life in Western Australia is structured in four main sections - the environment, the southwest province and southwestern interzone, the eremaean province and the northern province. Includes bibliographic information, a glossary and a detailed index.
Kwongan
Title | Kwongan PDF eBook |
Author | J. S. Pate |
Publisher | |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration
Title | Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart K. Allison |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 621 |
Release | 2017-05-18 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 131741375X |
Ecological restoration is a rapidly evolving discipline that is engaged with developing both methodologies and strategies for repairing damaged and polluted ecosystems and environments. During the last decade the rapid pace of climate change coupled with continuing habitat destruction and the spread of non-native species to new habitats has forced restoration ecologists to re-evaluate their goals and the methods they use. This comprehensive handbook brings together an internationally respected group of established and rising experts in the field. The book begins with a description of current practices and the state of knowledge in particular areas of restoration, and then identifies new directions that will help the field achieve increasing levels of future success. Part I provides basic background about ecological and environmental restoration. Part II systematically reviews restoration in key ecosystem types located throughout the world. In Part III, management and policy issues are examined in detail, offering the first comprehensive treatment of policy relevance in the field, while Part IV looks to the future. Ultimately, good ecological restoration depends upon a combination of good science, policy, planning and outreach – all issues that are addressed in this unrivalled volume.
A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses
Title | A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Damousi |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2016-12-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131544531X |
Sound studies has emerged as a major academic field in recent times. However, much of this material remains ahistorical or focused on technological advances of sound. This book departs from previous studies by drawing out connections between sound, memory and the senses, and how they emerge within a variety of historical contexts.
Australian Vegetation
Title | Australian Vegetation PDF eBook |
Author | David A. Keith |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 771 |
Release | 2017-06-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1108210546 |
Australian Vegetation has been an essential reference for students and researchers in botany, ecology and natural resource management for over 35 years. Now fully updated and with a new team of authors, the third edition presents the latest insights on the patterns and processes that shaped the vegetation of Australia. The first part of the book provides a synthesis of ecological processes that influence vegetation traits throughout the continent, using a new classification of vegetation. New chapters examine the influences of climate, soils, fire regimes, herbivores and aboriginal people on vegetation, in addition to completely revised chapters on evolutionary biogeography, quaternary vegetation history and alien plants. The book's second half presents detailed ecological portraits for each major vegetation type and offers data-rich perspectives and comparative analysis presented in tables, graphs, maps and colour illustrations. This authoritative book will inspire readers to learn and explore first-hand the vegetation of Australia.