Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country

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This interdisciplinary collection is written in a straightforward and accessible style.

Many of the writers are practicing field specialists, and have woven their personal field work into the stories they tell about the birds. The boom and bust desert world a birds eye view.

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Barcoo bantam It runs like hell. Rain and grass lessons in how to be a zebra finch. Grey teal survivors in a changing world. Australian pelican flexible responses to uncertainty.

Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country : Libby Robin :

Night parrots fugitives of the inland. Genyornis last of the dromornithids.

The book describes the responses of animals and pla Winner of the Whitley Medal In Boom and Bust , the authors draw on the natural history of Australia's charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment. The book describes the responses of animals and plants to environmental variability and stress.

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It is also a cultural concept, capturing the patterns of change wrought by humans in Australia, where culture began shaping the landscape about 55, years ago as ecosystems responded to Aboriginal management. In , the British settlement brought, almost simultaneously, both agricultural and industrial revolutions to a land previously managed by fire for hunting.

How have birds responded to this second dramatic invasion? Boom and Bust is also a tool for understanding global change.

Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country by Libby Robin,Robert Heinsohn,Leo Joseph PDF

How can Australians in the 21st century better understand how to continue to live on this land as its conditions dynamically unfold in response to the major anthropogenic changes to the whole Earth system? This interdisciplinary collection is written in a straightforward and accessible style.

Many of the writers are practicing field specialists, and have woven their personal field work into the stories they tell about the birds. Hardcover , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Read more Read less. Prime Book Box for Kids. Review "A refreshing strength is that these scientists and historians do not sacrifice the facts for the story or engage in the hyperbole that characterises so much magazine-style popularisation of science.

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