Boom & bust : bird stories for a dry country /
Libby Robin, Robert Heinsohn, Leo Joseph (editors).
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Collingwood, Vic. : : CSIRO Pub., , c2009.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (311 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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.
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| ISBN | 0-643-09709-0. - 1-283-15522-2. - 9786613155221
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