Australian Trees

Author : Inga Simpson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780734418548

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The Book of Australian Trees by Inga Simpson Pdf

Trees tell stories about places. Australia has some of the tallest, oldest, fattest and most unusual trees in the world. They have changed over thousands of years, adapting to this continent's deserts, mountains, and coasts. Many have found clever ways of dealing with drought and fire. Their leaves, flowers and seeds are food for birds, insects and mammals. Old trees have lots of hollows, which make good homes for possums, sugar gliders, birds and bees. But trees aren't just important for other animals, we need them too. What trees breathe out, we breathe in. They are a vital part of the Earth's ecosystems. When you first stand in a forest, the trees all seem the same. But if you look more closely, they are each a little different, like people. This book is a love song to Australian trees, from the red ironbark to the grey gum, the Moreton Bay fig to the Queensland bottle tree. The first book for children from one of Australia's most beloved authors.

Author : Phillip W. Hadlington,Judith A. Johnston
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0868402958

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Australian Trees by Phillip W. Hadlington,Judith A. Johnston Pdf

This book is the tree-lover's first aid manual. Extensively illustrated, including 40 color plates, it tells you how to maintain your trees in good health, how to diagnose their illnesses, about their many enemies, including humans, the right medicine to administer, and in extreme cases, how to perform tree surgery.

Author : Ivan Holliday,Ron Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Botany
ISBN : OCLC:30098597

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A Field Guide to Australian Trees by Ivan Holliday,Ron Hill Pdf

Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780522856699

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Australia's Remarkable Trees by Richard Allen Pdf

Elephantine Boabs dot the Kimberley region of Western Australia; Cattle rub against giant Bottle Trees and Ironbarks in Queensland, and Strangler Figs with 40-metre girths thrive in our northern rainforests. Snow Gums and Shining Gums eke out their lives on our icy mountain tops and prehistoric-looking Bunya Pines, which once looked down on the dinosaurs, grow in a few isolated places in Australia's north-east. Australia's Remarkable Trees explores the extraordinary lives of fifty of Australia's oldest, largest and most unusual trees. Richly illustrated with more than 500 photographs, writer Richard Allen and photographer Kimbal Baker went to the far reaches of Australia-travelling more than 60 000 kilometres-to photograph them and tell their stories. Australia's Remarkable Trees is not just a celebration of Australia's great trees. It also prompts us to look to the future to see what lies in store for them. It is a call to arms to preserve and protect our oldest and most magnificent living things, and the forests and wilderness in which they live

Author : Douglas J. Boland
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780643069695

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Forest Trees of Australia by Douglas J. Boland Pdf

The classic Australian guide - now fully revised and updated with nearly 300 of Australia's most important native trees.

Author : DJ Boland,MIH Brooker,GM Chippendale,N Hall,BPM Hyland,RD Johnston,DA Kleinig,MW McDonald,JD Turner
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643098947

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Forest Trees of Australia by DJ Boland,MIH Brooker,GM Chippendale,N Hall,BPM Hyland,RD Johnston,DA Kleinig,MW McDonald,JD Turner Pdf

Forest Trees of Australia is the essential reference for observing, identifying and obtaining information on the native trees in this country. It describes and illustrates over 300 of our most important indigenous trees, which have been carefully selected for their environmental significance, their importance to the timber industry, or their prominence in our landscape. This new and thoroughly revised edition has been fully updated throughout and includes treatments of 72 additional species. New maps and photographs show us a wonderfully diverse range of forests, from mangrove swamps, tropical regions and deserts, to alpine areas and majestic stands of temperate forests. A colour section illustrates some of the major forest types of Australia and bark from a diverse range of species. Forest Trees of Australia is an unsurpassed guide to identification for horticulturists, botanists, foresters, students, farmers, environmentalists and all those who are interested in our native trees.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0764927582

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The Trees of San Francisco by Michael Sullivan Pdf

Mike Sullivan loves his adopted city of San Francisco, and he loves trees. In The Trees of San Francisco he has combined his passions, offering a striking and handy compendium of botanical information, historical tidbits, cultivation hints, and more. Sullivan's introduction details the history of trees in the city, a fairly recent phenomenon. The text then piques the reader's interest with discussions of 71 city trees. Each tree is illustrated with a photograph--with its common and scientific names prominently displayed--and its specific location within San Francisco, along with other sites; frequently a close-up shot of the tree is included. Sprinkled throughout are 13 sidelights relating to trees; among the topics are the city's wild parrots and the trees they love; an overview of the objectives of the Friends of the Urban Forest; and discussions about the link between Australia's trees and those in the city, such as the eucalyptus. The second part of the book gets the reader up and about, walking the city to see its trees. Full-page color maps accompany the seven detailed tours, outlining the routes; interesting factoids are interspersed throughout the directions. A two-page color map of San Francisco then highlights 25 selected neighborhoods ideal for viewing trees, leading into a checklist of the neighborhoods and their trees.

Author : Peter Krisch
Publisher : Reed New Holland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1921517522

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Trees of Australia by Peter Krisch Pdf

This title in New Holland s award-winning Green Guides series investigates the ever-popular subject of Australia s trees and shrubs, celebrating the beauty, great diversity and unique evolution of the country s forests.The structure of this book is similar to that of other titles in the series.Fact panels cover interesting aspects of the subject.Questions answered include:what is the difference between a tree and a shrub? what age can Australian trees reach?how tall do trees grow in Australia?and how many species of trees and shrubs exist in Australia? to name just a few.Other sections look at how trees reproduce and how they evolved.Identification spreads cover all the key species and families which occur across Australia, including many species of conifers, eucalypts and wattles/acacias.There are sections on how to identify bottlebrushes, banksias, casuarinas, grevilleas, figs, laurels and many others, including many of the trees and shrubs found in Australia s species-rich rainforests.The many beautiful images are taken from the author s own collection which has been built up over many decades.

Author : N Marcar,D Crawford,P Leppert,T Jovanovic,R Floyd,R Farrow
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780643102842

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Trees for Saltland by N Marcar,D Crawford,P Leppert,T Jovanovic,R Floyd,R Farrow Pdf

This book aims to assist in the management of soil salinity by describing a range of species tolerant of saline soils. 60 species are listed with descriptions containing botanical features, growth characteristics, preferred soils, climates and more. The introductory sections of this book provide general information on issues such as how trees deal with saline soil, their susceptibility to insect pests, where to plant trees and how best to establish them. The main section provides detailed descriptions of 30 species for use on salt-affected land.

Author : Leonard Cronin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 176147023X

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Cronin's Key Guide to Australian Trees by Leonard Cronin Pdf

An authoritative and indispensable guide to Australia's fascinating trees, fully updated and revised.

Author : John Ednie Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Arboriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102826971

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A Practical Treatise on Tree Culture in South Australia by John Ednie Brown Pdf

Author : R.T. Prinsley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401118323

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The Role of Trees in Sustainable Agriculture by R.T. Prinsley Pdf

Agroforestry reserach and development in Australia has been largely fragmented and many of the research results have never been published and are unknown. The purpose of this volume is to comprehensively review all of the research that has taken place in the field of agroforestry in Australia, including previously unpublished results, providing readers with the latest technical and economic information about using trees in agriculture for the control of salinity and erosion, for shelter and shade, and for the production of timber, fodder and minor forest products. The book provides information concerning planted trees within all of these categories and includes special review of the management of native vegetation on farms. These papers also examine research needs where appropriate. This book stems from the National Australian Conference on 'The Role of Trees in Sustainable Agriculture' which took place in Albury, Victoria, Australia in October, 1991. Each national review paper is based upon a summary of six or more state review research and development papers, prepared specifically for the national conference. The book thus provides readers with a comprehensive overview of agroforestry rsearch in Australia, which is introduced and summarised in the first chapter.

Author : W.T. Adams,Steven H. Strauss,Donald L. Copes,A.R. Griffin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401128155

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Population Genetics of Forest Trees by W.T. Adams,Steven H. Strauss,Donald L. Copes,A.R. Griffin Pdf

Tropical climates, which occur between 23°30'N and S latitude (Jacob 1988), encompass a wide variety of plant communities (Hartshorn 1983, 1988), many of which are diverse in their woody floras. Within this geographic region, temperature and the amount and seasonality of rainfall define habitat types (UNESCO 1978). The F AO has estimated that there 1 are about 19 million km of potentially forested area in the global tropics, of which 58% were estimated to still be in closed forest in the mid-1970s (Sommers 1976; UNESCO 1978). Of this potentially forested region, 42% is categorized as dry forest lifezone, 33% is tropical moist forest, and 25% is wet or rain forest (Lugo 1988). The species diversity of these tropical habitats is very high. Raven (1976, in Mooney 1988) estimated that 65% of the 250,000 or more plant species of the earth are found in tropical regions. Of this floristic assemblage, a large fraction are woody species. In the well-collected tropical moist forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 39. 7% (481 of 1212 species) of the native phanerogams are woody, arborescent species (Croat 1978). Another 21. 9% are woody vines and lianas. Southeast Asian Dipterocarp forests may contain 120-200 species of trees per hectare (Whitmore 1984), and recent surveys in upper Amazonia re corded from 89 to 283 woody species ~ 10 cm dbh per hectare (Gentry 1988). Tropical communities thus represent a global woody flora of significant scope.

Author : National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309040341

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Forest Trees by National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives Pdf

News reports concerning decline of the world's forests are becoming sadly familiar. Most losses are measured in square kilometers, but a more profound loss cannot be measured. As forests disappear, so do their genetic resources. The genes they possess can no longer aid in their adaptation to a changing environment, nor can they be used to develop improved varieties or products. This book assesses the status of the world's tree genetic resources and management efforts. Strategies for meeting future needs and alternatives to harvesting natural forests are presented. The book also outlines methods and technologies for management, evaluates activities now under way, and makes specific recommendations for a global strategy for forest management.

Author : Sandy Sturmer
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781863115025

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Australian Special Days by Sandy Sturmer Pdf

Australian special days (blackline master)