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
• 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: 0-643-09867-4; 1-283-15522-2; 9786613155221; 0-643-09709-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819147703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II