Csiro Publishing imprint: 506 books
by Peter West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Australia’s introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental and social impacts. The Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia is a comprehensive, practical guide to 60 introduced pest animal species present in Australia, including 27 mammals, 18...
Reptiles of Victoria
A Guide to Identification and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Victoria's reptiles are not often encountered by urban dwellers, with many species now threatened. You may have glimpsed a skink darting into the undergrowth, a snake slithering along a walking path or a blue-tongued lizard sunning itself near your garden shed. Yet the turtles, skinks, geckos, goannas,...
Beating the Odds in a Big Country
The eradication of bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
The implementation of the Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign has been one of the most significant animal health achievements in the history of Australia and worldwide. The unprecedented technical and operational complexity of the campaign presented an enormous challenge to cattle producers,...
The Antarctic Dictionary
A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2000
The world’s most isolated continent has spawned some of the most unusual words in the English language. In the space of a mere century, a remarkable vocabulary has evolved to deal with the extraordinary environment and living organisms of the Antarctic and subantarctic. Here, for the first time, is...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
The Victorian Mallee region encompasses the Little Desert, the Big Desert, the Sunset Country and the Hattah-Kulkyne. Each area is unique and with different topography, vegetation and fauna. The region experiences consistently higher temperatures, lower rainfall and contains a greater diversity of reptiles...
Carcasson's African Butterflies
An Annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
The result of more than 20 years of research and collaboration by international butterfly experts, this book is the first comprehensive catalogue to the butterfly fauna of any major tropical region and, as such, provides a basic research tool for any worker with an interest in African butterflies. Covering...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and affecting more of Earth's surface than ever before. These fires affect the properties of soils and the processes by which they form, but the nature of these impacts has not been well understood. Given that healthy soil is necessary to sustain biodiversity,...
Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia
A Guide to Identification
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
This book is a comprehensive guide to the identification of 800 species of decapod and stomatopod crustaceans from southern Australian marine waters. It is liberally illustrated with more than 1000 line drawings giving good views of many species as well as diagnostic illustrations. Details for each species...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
This book brings together exciting accounts of life history strategies of a range of species, as well as background information on general butterfly behaviour, taxonomy and evolutionary aspects. Each chapter is written by one of Australia’s professional lepidopterists and provides a comprehensive literature...
Ned Kelly
Under the Microscope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Ned Kelly was hanged at the Old Melbourne Gaol on 11 November 1880, and his body buried in the graveyard there. Many stories emerged about his skull being separated and used as a paperweight or trophy, and it was finally put on display at the museum of the Old Melbourne Gaol — until it was stolen in...
by W Bond
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1998
Measurements in and just below the plant root zone, using principles of soil physics, can be used to estimate recharge. This booklet describes the Zero Flux Plane Method, Methods Based on Darchy's law, and Lysimetry for making such estimates. The work presents the basic concepts of soil water physics...
Geologically Storing Carbon
Learning from the Otway Project Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Carbon capture and geological storage (CCS) is presently the only way that we can make deep cuts in emissions from fossil fuel-based, large-scale sources of CO2 such as power stations and industrial plants. But if this technology is to be acceptable to the community, it is essential that it is credibly...
Grasses: Systematics and Evolution
Systematics and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2000
Grasses: Systematics and Evolution is a selection of the very best papers from the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution held in Sydney, Australia in 1998. The papers represent some of the leading work from around the world on grasses and include reviews...
Plankton
A Guide to Their Ecology and Monitoring for Water Quality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Healthy waterways and oceans are essential for our increasingly urbanised world. Yet monitoring water quality in aquatic environments is a challenge, as it varies from hour to hour due to stormwater and currents. Being at the base of the aquatic food web and present in huge numbers, plankton are strongly...