02819nam 2200625 a 450 991077791470332120230721022218.00-643-09867-41-283-15522-297866131552210-643-09709-0(CKB)1000000000785664(EBL)454104(OCoLC)434595749(SSID)ssj0000335325(PQKBManifestationID)12126750(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335325(PQKBWorkID)10272446(PQKB)11397052(Au-PeEL)EBL454104(CaPaEBR)ebr10620351(CaONFJC)MIL315522(MiAaPQ)EBC454104(EXLCZ)99100000000078566420100601d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBoom & bust[electronic resource] bird stories for a dry country /Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors)Collingwood, Vic. CSIRO Pub.c20091 online resource (311 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-643-09606-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Leading writers draw on ideas in both science and the humanities to tell the stories of birds and people in the world's driest inhabited continent.BirdsBehaviorAustraliaBirdsEffect of drought onAustraliaNatureEffect of human beings onBirdsBehaviorBirdsEffect of drought onNatureEffect of human beings on.598.0994Robin Libby1956-1481959Joseph Leo1535251Heinsohn Robert1535252MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777914703321Boom & bust3783366UNINA