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UNINA9910974724003321 |
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Titolo |
Boom & bust : bird stories for a dry country / / Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors) |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., c2009 |
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ISBN |
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9786613155221 |
9780643098671 |
0643098674 |
9781283155229 |
1283155222 |
9780643097094 |
0643097090 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (311 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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RobinLibby <1956-> |
JosephLeo |
HeinsohnRobert |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Birds - Behavior - Australia |
Birds - Effect of drought on - Australia |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : boom and bust / Libby Robin and Mike Smith -- The boom and bust desert world : a bird's eye view / Libby Robin and Leo Joseph -- Barcoo bantam : 'It runs like hell!' / Graham Pizzey -- Rain and grass : lessons in how to be a zebra finch / Steve Morton -- Grey teal : survivors in a changing world / David Roshier -- Australian pelican : flexible responses to uncertainty / Julian Reid -- Night parrots : fugitives of the inland / Penny Olsen -- Genyornis : last of the dromornithids / Mike Smith -- Rainbirds : organising the country / Deborah Bird Rose -- Woodswallows : a longer term, evolutionary view of boom and bust / Leo Joseph -- White-winged choughs : the social consequences of boom and bust / Robert Heinsohn -- Emu : national symbols and ecological limits / Libby Robin. |
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