[PDF] Bulletin Australian Society For Limnology eBook

Author : P. de Deckker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400948204

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Australia is the world's driest inhabited continent. Water is our limiting resource. It might therefore be thought that our water resources would be the subject of the most intensive study. Certain aspects, it must be conceded, have received much attention, notably the availability of water in terms of actual quantity. The size of the surface water and the groundwater resource is well understood and indeed receives about as much study as can reasonably be expected in a country with as sparse a population and level of scientific manpower as ours. Although the importance of understanding the water resource in terms of quantity is widely accepted, what has not been generally appreciated is that for this resource to be 'available' to human society for all the different uses to which it is put, it is not sufficient that there exists within easy reach of the end users a certain total volume of water. For that water to fulfil its functions-for agriculture, industry, the home, recreation, biological conservation-it must be in a certain state: it must conform to certain chemical, physical and biological criteria, and what has not been sufficiently appreciated in Australian society is that the condition a water is in depends very much on the ecology of the waterbody in which it resides. There are waterbodies in the world, for example high-altitude glacial lakes, which are naturally so pristine that their water could be used for any purpose without treatment.

Author : Brad Pusey
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 17,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780643069664

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The ecology, systematics, biogeography and management of North East Autralia's native fish.

Author : John Lawrence
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0643097295

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Volume 1 in a three-volume series that represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia.

Author : Adam Slipinski
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486311407

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This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else on Earth. Volume 2 contains 36 chapters, providing critical information and identification keys to the genera of the Australian beetle families included in suborders Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga and several groups of Polyphaga (Scirtoidea, Hydrophiloidea, Scarabaeoidea, Buprestoidea and Tenebrionidae). Each chapter is richly illustrated in black and white drawings and photographs. The book also includes colour habitus figures for about 1000 Australian beetle genera and subgenera belonging to the families treated in this volume. This volume is a truly international collaborative effort, as the chapters have been written by 23 contributors from Australia, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland and USA.