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Book reviews, or reviews of CD's, etc relating to indigenous flora and fauna

Plants of Melbourne's Western Plains

Posted Fri, 29/06/2012 - 15:51 by tonyf

Plants of Melbournes Western Plains cover thumb.jpgA gardeners guide to the original flora. 2nd edition.

223 pages 230mm x 160mm rrp $19.95 ISBN 978 0 909830 65 6

Fully illustrated in colour with 500+ photographs, maps and diagrams. Botanical and common names identify each plant included, together with its favoured growing conditions, mature size and flowering times.

This extensively revised and updated version of the 75 page booklet published in 1995 will be available in July. To be published by the Australian Plant Society Keilor Plains. Look out for a review of the book when we have seen one.

NatureShare Website

Posted Sun, 27/05/2012 - 20:00 by tonyf

NatureShare is a new website http://natureshare.org.au which stores information about indigenous species in Victoria. It allows anyone to upload their observations of species so as to share them with the world.

Intelligent Tinkering: Bridging the gap between Science and Practice

Posted Fri, 25/05/2012 - 23:23 by BB
Author: 
Robert J. Cabin

‘Intelligent tinkering’ was the term used by the famous ecologist, Aldo Leopold, over sixty years ago to describe his explorations into restoration of degraded prairie land. The casual approach that this term suggests is still the dominant mode of knowledge-building among ecological restoration practitioners.

Resilience Thinking - Sustaining Ecosystems and people in a Changing World

Posted Sun, 13/09/2009 - 22:04 by tonyf

It might seem strange to be reviewing a book published three years ago, but this is a title whose time has definitely come.   It is currently difficult to hear to any politician speak without dropping the word ‘resilience’ every few sentences and at the Society for Ecological Restoration conference in late August the air was thick with the term.  That’s not to say that this ‘resilience thinking’ is particularly new.  Much of the theory has been devised over many decades in social, economic, ecological and business fields.  It is the cross-fertilisation of ideas across disciplines and the usefulness of the idea in the face of uncertainty that makes this a stimulating and obviously popular concept.     

Society for Ecological Restoration International Conference 2009 Perth Making Change in a Changing World

Posted Sun, 13/09/2009 - 21:36 by tonyf

An image from the plenary sessionsThe Society for Ecological Restoration International (SERI) conference held in Perth in late August was a phenomenal workout for the the head and the heart of delegates.  The theme, ‘Making change in a changing world’ signalled the fundamental challenges facing practitioners (professional, volunteer and academic) in making decisions amid rapidly changing environments, philosophies and knowledge base.

Moths of Victoria by Peter Marriot

Posted Fri, 20/03/2009 - 14:58 by tonyf

Cover of Moths of VictoriaAuthor: Peter Marriott
Publisher: Entomological Society of Victoria
Available for $12.00 from Entomological Society of Victoria plus packing and posting, for details see http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/peterm/peterm.html

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