Vegetation Of Australian Riverine Landscapes

Author : Samantha Capon,Cassandra James,Michael Reid
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780643104525

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Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes by Samantha Capon,Cassandra James,Michael Reid Pdf

Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant. They are also among the most threatened ecosystems on the continent and have been dramatically altered as a result of human activities and climate change. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes brings together, for the first time, the results of the substantial amount of research that has been conducted over the last few decades into the biology, ecology and management of these important plant communities in Australia. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides context with respect to the spatial and temporal dimensions of riverine landscapes in Australia. The second section examines key groups of riverine plants, while the third section provides an overview of riverine vegetation in five major regions of Australia, including patterns, significant threats and management. The final section explores critical issues associated with the conservation and management of riverine plants and vegetation, including water management, salinity, fire and restoration. Vegetation of Australian Riverine Landscapes highlights the incredible diversity and dynamic nature of riverine vegetation across Australia, and will be an excellent reference for researchers, academics and environmental consultants.

Author : David A. Keith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107118430

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Australian Vegetation by David A. Keith Pdf

This fully updated third edition provides a modern synthesis and review of the latest advances in understanding native vegetation across Australia.

Author : Barry Hart,Neil Byron,Nick Bond,Carmel Pollino,Michael Stewardson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128181539

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Murray-Darling Basin, Australia by Barry Hart,Neil Byron,Nick Bond,Carmel Pollino,Michael Stewardson Pdf

Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management is a much-needed text for water resources managers, water, catchment, estuarine and coastal scientists, and aquatic ecologists. The book first provides a summary of the Murray-Darling River system: its hydrology, water-related ecological assets, land uses (particularly irrigation), and its rural and regional communities; and management within the Basin, including catchments and natural resources, water resources, irrigation, environment, and monitoring and evaluation. Additionally, the recent major water reforms in the Basin are discussed, with a focus particularly on the development and implementation of the Basin Plan. Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management then provides an analysis of the next set of policy and institutional reforms (environmental, social, cultural and economic) needed to ensure the Basin is managed as an integrated system (including its water resources, catchment and estuary) capable of adapting to future changes. Six major challenges facing the Basin are identified and discussed, particularly within the context of predicted changes to the climate leading to an increased frequency of drought and a hotter and dryer future. Finally, a ‘road map’ or ‘blueprint’ to achieve more integrated management of the Basin is provided, together with some ‘key lessons’ of relevance to others involved in the management of multijurisdictional river Basins. Provides a consolidated account of the Murray-Darling Basin system; an area of global relevance to those interested in rebalancing river systems where the water resources have been over allocated Offers a detailed analysis of the current system and its management, with a focus on water and ecosystem management Discusses a number of key challenges, particularly those related to climate change, facing future reforms to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Provides a blueprint for changes needed to ensure the Basin is managed as an integrated whole (from catchment to coast)

Author : Amy L. Angert,Marta Benito Garzon,Emily V. Moran,Wilfried Thuiller
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889747252

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Predicting and Managing Climate-Driven Range Shifts in Plants by Amy L. Angert,Marta Benito Garzon,Emily V. Moran,Wilfried Thuiller Pdf

Author : Martin Thoms,Ian Fuller
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323972055

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Resilience and Riverine Landscapes by Martin Thoms,Ian Fuller Pdf

Resilience and Riverine Landscapes presents contributed chapters from global experts in Riverine Landscapes, making it the most comprehensive reference available on the topic. The book explores why rivers are ideal landscapes to study resilience and why studying rivers from a resilience perspective is important for our biophysical understanding of these landscapes and for society. The book focuses on the biophysical character of resilience in riverine landscapes, providing an interdisciplinary perspective of the structure, function, and interactions of riverine landscapes and the ecosystems they contain. The editors conclude by proposing a research agenda for the future, emphasizing the need for transdisciplinary research across a range of spatial and temporal scales and research domains. Presents the resilience of rivers with both a theoretical and applied focus Includes case studies from a wide geographical base, allowing for a full range of viewpoints Showcases how resilience is being incorporated into the study and management of riverine landscapes Includes a transdisciplinary focus on riverine landscapes, from theory to applied, and from biophysical to social-ecological systems

Author : Reader's Digest (Australia)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Reference
ISBN : PSU:000018995954

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Discover Australia by Reader's Digest (Australia) Pdf

Includes over 600 colour photographs of the Australian landscape accompanied by descriptions, diagrams and maps. Forty different regions are presented here, along with an explanation of the forces which shaped the land.

Author : C.M. Finlayson,Isabell von Oertzen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400901339

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Landscape and Vegetation Ecology of the Kakadu Region, Northern Australia by C.M. Finlayson,Isabell von Oertzen Pdf

The Kakadu reg10n of northern Australia is swarming over the landscape with their meters steeped in cultural history and natural grandeur. and notebooks and a vast store of information Over the past few decades the rich cultural and was gathered. This book is a summary of the natural heritage of this fascinating region has immense amount of information collected on the become increasingly known to more and more geobotanic features of the region. The cultural people. At the same time as the natural heritage of heritage of the traditional Aboriginal inhabitants the region was being recognised by conser of the region and the diverse and populous fauna vationists and tourists alike the mineral wealth were also investigated. but both these subjects was being recognised by mining enterprises. warrant their own separate volumes and are not Almost inevitably, the mix of conservation and treated here. Throughout this period of intense scientific mining interests led to conflict that is still not completely resolved. However, much has hap interest the very nature of the region has changed. pened over the years and we now have a major Besides changes in human habitation the physical and biological environment has come under national park that is largely leased from the Aboriginal traditional owners under a manage challenge and even threat. We now have more weed species. We no longer have the large ment agreement.

Author : Simon Haberle,Janelle Stevenson,Matthew Prebble
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781921666810

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Altered Ecologies by Simon Haberle,Janelle Stevenson,Matthew Prebble Pdf

Like a star chart this volume orientates the reader to the key issues and debates in Pacific and Australasian biogeography, palaeoecology and human ecology. A feature of this collection is the diversity of approaches ranging from interpretation of the biogeographic significance of plant and animal distributional patterns, pollen analysis from peats and lake sediments to discern Quaternary climate change, explanation of the patterns of faunal extinction events, the interplay of fire on landscape evolution, and models of the environmental consequences of human settlement patterns. The diversity of approaches, geographic scope and academic rigor are a fitting tribute to the enormous contributions of Geoff Hope. As made apparent in this volume, Hope pioneered multidisciplinary understanding of the history and impacts of human cultures in the Australia- Pacific region, arguably the globe's premier model systems for understanding the consequences of humans colonization on ecological systems. The distinguished scholars who have contributed to this volume also demonstrate Hope's enduring contribution as an inspirational research leader, collaborator and mentor. Terra Australis leave no doubt that history matters, not only for land management, but more importantly, in alerting settler and indigenous societies alike to their past ecological impacts and future environmental trajectories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780643103542

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Landscape Logic by Anonim Pdf

"Case studies examine the effectiveness of environmental programs to improve our waterways, soils and natural vegetation." - from publisher.

Author : C.M. Haynes,M. Ridpath,M.A.J. Williams
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9061916380

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Monsoonal Australia by C.M. Haynes,M. Ridpath,M.A.J. Williams Pdf

This work covers the history of the landscape, the climate, the vegetation, the vertebrate animals, Aboriginal association with the land, and conservation and the future.

Author : Matthew Colloff
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643109216

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Flooded Forest and Desert Creek by Matthew Colloff Pdf

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 it exists as narrow corridors, providing vital refugia for biodiversity. The tree has played a central role in the tension between economy, society and environment and has been the subject of enquiries over its conservation, use and management. Despite this, we know remarkably little about the ecology and life history of the river red gum: its longevity; how deep its roots go; what proportion of its seedlings survive to adulthood; and the diversity of organisms associated with it. More recently we have begun to move from a culture of exploitation of river red gum forests and woodlands to one of conservation and sustainable use. In Flooded Forest and Desert Creek, the author traces this shift through the rise of a collective environmental consciousness, in part articulated through the depiction of river red gums and inland floodplains in art, literature and the media.

Author : Peter Andrews
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781743095041

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Back from the Brink by Peter Andrews Pdf

Featured on Australian Story, Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He has faced bankruptcy and family break-up. But now, on the brink of ecological disaster, leading politicians, international scientists and businessmen are beating a path to his door as they grapple with how best to alleviate the affects of drought on the Australian landscape. Described as a man who reads and understands the Australian landscape better than most scientists, supporters of Peter Andrews claim he has done what no scientist ever thought to do - he has restored streams and wetlands to the way they were before European settlement interfered with them. the startling results of his natural sequence farming are said to have been achieved very cheaply, simply and quickly.

Author : N. C. W. Beadle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015006114469

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The Vegetation of Australia by N. C. W. Beadle Pdf

Author : David Lindenmayer,Mason Crane,Damian Michael,Esther Beaton
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643099876

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Woodlands by David Lindenmayer,Mason Crane,Damian Michael,Esther Beaton Pdf

Australia's little known woodlands once covered huge areas of the eastern side of our continent. Woodlands are distinguished from forests by the fact that their canopies do not touch, tree heights are usually lower and they usually have a grassy understorey. They support a fascinating and diverse array of birds, mammals, reptiles, frogs, invertebrates and plants, and have been under massive pressure from grazing and agriculture over the past 200 years. In many cases only small remnant patches of some types of woodland survive. Understanding and appreciating woodlands is an important way forward for promoting their sustainable management and conservation. Woodlands: A Disappearing Landscape explains with lucid text and spectacular photographs the role that woodlands play in supporting a range of native plants and animals that has existed there for millions of years. The book is set out as a series of logically linked chapters working from the woodland canopy (the tree crowns), through the understorey, the ground layers, and to the lowest lying parts of landscape – wetlands, creeks and dams. Each chapter illustrates many key topics in woodland biology with text and images, explaining important aspects of woodland ecology as well as woodland management and conservation.

Author : Claire Takacs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1743794703

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Australian Dreamscapes by Claire Takacs Pdf

In Australian Dreamscapes, Claire Takacs showcases the varied gardens found in the Australian landscape, from lush green oases to semi-arid settings. Claire profiles Australian gardens, gardeners and garden designers who are drawing on the international movement towards a more naturalistic approach to planting design. Similar to the New Perennial movement and Prairie-style, these gardens take into consideration how plants grow in the wild and have created highly textural, visually pleasing gardens that appeal not only to our love of beauty, but that sit gently in their surrounding landscapes, giving a strong sense of place. Across 15 chapters and 22 gardens, Claire's stunning photography is accompanied by essays written by the garden owners or designers. The chapters detail the journey to establishing the gardens, their motivation, and the struggles and rewards the gardens bring day in, day out. Beautifully presented, Australian Dreamscapes is a stunning journey through the diversity of gardens in Australia.