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Titolo: | Boom & bust [[electronic resource] ] : bird stories for a dry country / / Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors) |
Pubblicazione: | Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., c2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina: | 598.0994 |
Soggetto topico: | Birds - Behavior - Australia |
Birds - Effect of drought on - Australia | |
Nature - Effect of human beings on | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | RobinLibby <1956-> JosephLeo HeinsohnRobert |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Boom & bust |
ISBN: | 1-283-15522-2 |
9786613155221 | |
0-643-09709-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454505703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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