The Coast of Australia

Andrew D Short & Colin D Woodroffe

"The Coasts of Australia provides the first comprehensive overview of the coastal systems that operate around the Australian coast, including beaches, dunes, estuaries, deltas, rocky coast and coral reefs. It provides insight into the operation of these systems and their distribution around the coast, including a representative range of examples. It also examines the impact of humans on the coast through a number of case studies. This book is fully illustrated with colour diagrams and numerous photographs. Written by two of Australias leading coastal scientists, Andrew Short and Colin Woodroffe, The Coasts of Australia is essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about this massive, largely undeveloped and highly variable coastline."--Provided by publisher.
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Forest trees of Australia

D.J. Boland and others. 5th edition revised and enlarged by M.W. McDonald and others.

Forest trees of Australia is the essential reference for observing, identifying and obtaining information on native trees. It describes and illustrates 300 of our most important indigenous trees, which have been carefully selected for their environmental significance, their importance to the timber industry, or their prominence in our landscape.

This new and thoroughly revised edition has been fully updated throughout and includes seventy-two treatments of additional species. New maps and photographs show us a wonderfully diverse range of forests, from mangrove swamps, tropical regions and deserts, to alpine areas and majestic stands of temperate forests. A colour section illustrates some of the major forest types of Australia and bark from a diverse range of species.

This is an unsurpassed guide to identification for horticulturists, botanists, foresters, students, farmers, environmentalists and all those who are interested in our native trees.
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Australian soil and land survey field handbook

The National Committee on Soil and Terrain

"This handbook specifies methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land survey investigations related to practical problems of land use and the scientific study of land and soil. It has been widely used and adopted as a standard throughout Australia, providing one reference set of definitions for the characterisation of landform and vegetation and for the description of soils. The book advocates that a comprehensive suite of land and soil attributes be recorded in a uniform manner. This approach is held to be more useful than the allocation of land or soil to preconceived types or classes. Its usefulness is enhanced where computer facilities are available. This revised edition contains significant changes to the Vegetation chapter and revisions to the Location chapter bringing it up-to-date with the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and changes to the Substrate chapter relating to the regolith."--Provided by publisher
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Australian saltmarsh ecology

Edited by Neil Saintilan.

Australian Saltmarsh Ecology presents the first comprehensive review of the ecology and management of Australia saltmarshes. The past 10 years in particular have seen a sustained research effort into this previously poorly understood and neglected resource.
Leading experts in the field outline what is known of the biogeography and geomorphology of Australian saltmarshes, their fish and invertebrate ecology, the use of Australian saltmarshes by birds and insectivorous bats, and the particular challenges of management, including the control of mosquito pests, and the issue of sea-level rise. They provide a powerful argument that coastal saltmarsh is a unique and critical habitat vulnerable to the combined impacts of coastal development and sea-level rise.
The book will be an important reference for saltmarsh researchers, marine and aquatic biologists, natural resource managers, environmentalists and ecologists, as well as undergraduate students and the interested layperson.
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Rocks, landscapes & resources of the wet tropics

Bernd Lottermoser ... [et al.]
This book brings to life the Wet Tropics of far north Queensland. It is the story of a regiion as complex and fascinating as none other.

Details on the region's rocks, landforms and resources are written simply for those with a strong curiosiitiy and love for nature.

"Rocks, Landscapes, and Resources of the Wet Tropics" is a engrossing explanation of a very special part of our planet. - book cover
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Draft Girraween National Park management plan (New England Tableland bioregion)

Queensland Environment Protection Agency

This publication contains draft proposals for the management of the Girraween national Park. Management plans provide the framework and guidelines on how an area will be managed. They set the considerations, outcomes and strategies that form the basis of day-to-day management decisions.

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Wetland rehabilitation guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef catchment

by Wetland Care Australia

This document gives practical guidance on wetland rehabilitation for farmers, community groups, local councils, Queensland Government agencies, natural resources management bodies and the community.
It covers:

• ways to identify and classify wetlands, and determine their values

• threats to wetlands

• planning for wetland rehabilitation

• practical rehabilitation techniques

• legislative requirements

• maintenance, monitoring and evaluation of rehabilitation

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Water quality of the Great Barrier Reef

by Glenn De’ath and Katharina Fabricius.

This report to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority provides technical background information and statistical data analysis for defining improved water quality guidelines trigger values for the Breat Barrier Reef Water Quality Guidelines. - Executive summary.


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Australia's State of the Forests Report 2008

issued by Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

"This is the third five year report on Australia's forests. It presents data obtained from a wide range of sources, including the public and private sectors."


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A Reef in Time

by V.E.N. Veron

"[This] is...a solid contribution to reef science, accessible by a broad audience, and important in its focus. Veron has combined his extensive personal experience with the refereed literature to make a number of compelling arguments on the future of the Great Barrier Reef, and reefs worldwide, in the face of global climate change. Veron expertly places the data, observations, and predictions in perspective and his synthesis goes beyond any previous work." - book jacket


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Living in a dynamic tropical forest landscape

Edited by Nigel E. Stork and Stephen M. Turton

This book is "a compendium of current knowledge of the..."Wet Tropics" landscapes of Northeast Australia...The book is presented in six sections with summaries by international luminaries who have placed the chapters in a global context. Social, cultural and economic dimensions are discussed, providing a holistic view of tropical landscape environments...[T]his book will be of great interest to a wide range of readers including...policy makers and natural resource managers."

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Stream hydrology: an introduction for ecologists

By Nancy D. Gordon et. al.

This second edition documents recent research and practice in the application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management and includes chapters on, for example, sampling, field techniques, stream analysis, channel form and sediment transport. This book is valuable reading for professionals working in stream ecology, fisheries science and habitat management, environmental consultants and engineers.

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Corridor ecology

By Jodi A. Hilty et. al.

Subtitled The science and practice of linking landscapes for biodiversity conservation, this book examines the impacts of habitat fragmentation and provides practical advice about the critical issue of connecting isolated patches with corridors of habitat.

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Habitat fragmentation and landscape change

By David B. Lindenmayer and Joern Fischer

This book provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ecological problems caused by landscape change and the concept of habitat fragmentation, drawing on case studies from around the world.

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OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030

"The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2030 provides analyses of economic and environmental trends to 2030, and simulations of policy actions to address the key challenges ... including climate change, biodiversity loss, water scarcity ... [and shows that] a mix of policies can address these challenges in a cost-effective way."

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Policy, culture and the achievement of visitor outcomes

By Danny Robert Parkin

This thesis "evaluates the organisational policies and structures underpinning the planning and delivery of visitor education services and activities" in the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service during the period 1999 - 2001.

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A hydraulic, environmental and ecological assessment of a sub-tropical stream in Eastern Australia: Eprapah Creek, Victoria Point Qld on 4 April 2003

On one day, 4 April 2003, more than 60 people recorded hyrodynamic, environmental and ecological data for Eprapah Creek, a small subtropical stream in Eastern Australia. The results provide a detailed snapshot of this creek system.

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