Horticulture: eBooks

Wildlife Conservation in Farm Landscapes communicates new scientific information about best practice ways to integrate conservation and agriculture in the temperate eucalypt woodland belt of eastern Australia.

Restoring Farm Woodlands for Wildlife focuses on why restoration is important and describes best practice approaches to restore farm woodlands for birds, mammals and reptiles.

Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife contains a comprehensive range of practical measures to assist others to reduce the impacts resulting from development on terrestrial flora and fauna.

Rocky outcrops are landscape features with disproportionately high biodiversity values relative to their size. They support specialised plants and animals, and a wide variety of endemic species.

Recovering Australian Threatened Species showcases successful conservation stories and identifies approaches and implementation methods that have been most effective in recovering threatened species.

Wildlife of the Otways and Shipwreck Coast is a photographic field guide to the vertebrate wildlife of Victoria’s south-west. It covers all the mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that occur in the region, including on land and in coastal waters.

This classic agricultural publication gives you an understanding of soil starting from the landscape and journeying through soil texture and structure, nutrients, moisture, organic matter, soil carbon, soil organisms.

This book links landscape design processes with sound modern soil science practices to promote better quality project outcomes by ensuring that the basis of the landscape, the soil, is suitable for the intended purpose.

A practical reference enabling readers to better understand and interpret a range of soil test methods.

The Australian Soil Classification provides both a framework for organizing knowledge about Australian soils and a means of communication among scientists and land managers.

This book specifies the methods, standards and terminology used in soil and land survey investigations.It specifies methods and terminology for soil and land surveys.

There are severe problems with the decision-making processes currently widely used, leading to ineffective use of evidence, and the erosion of public and political support. In this book an international team of experts provide solutions.

A lavishly illustrated 264 page colour publication covering all aspects of managing natural area restoration projects. Includes resilience, mapping, describing and assessing vegetation.

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change addresses and challenges some of these issues which question the core values of the science and practice of restoration ecology.

The first authoritative reference book on both the theoretical and practical aspects of growing plants without the use of soil.

Provides procedures and guidelines for routine and advanced characterisation of biochars.

This book will benefit scientists, conservation managers, policy makers and those with an interest in threatened species monitoring and management.

Monitoring Biodiversity will be an essential resource for students at all levels of environmental monitoring, assessment, and management.

This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the pollination ecology, evolution and conservation of Australian rainforest plants.

Contributions by more than 200 researchers and managers with involvement in the conservation of the biodiversity affected by the Black Summer wildfires.

Drawing on numerous examples and a wealth of research, this book offers a profoundly renewed strategic diagnosis as well as levers for activating regenerative processes to benefit the living world.

Australian Forest Woods describes about 130 of the most significant Australian forest trees and their wood.

Forest Trees of Australia is the essential reference for observing, identifying and obtaining information on the native trees in this country.

The book integrates data on forests, carbon, fire dynamics and other factors, building on 6 years of high-quality, multi-faceted research.

This long-awaited guide to rainforest seed propagation unlocks the secrets to growing 300 rainforest species.

In search of answers, Viki Cramer takes us on a journey through the richest botanical corner of the continent, exploring forests of rugged jarrah and majestic karri, woodlands of enduring salmon gum and burnished-bark gimlet.

This book summarises the main discoveries, management insights and policy initiatives in the science, management and policy arenas associated with temperate woodlands in Australia.

Recently we have begun to move from a culture of exploitation of river red gum forests and woodlands to one of conservation and sustainable use.

This book looks at the current state of the world's forests and progress towards more sustainable forest conservation globally. It also focuses on how Australia is managing and conserving its own native forests.

Planting Wetlands and Dams is a step-by-step, plain language guide to the creation of conditions in which wetland plants will thrive, from design and construction to collecting plants, seeds and propagation.

More than a natural history, this book explains the underlying forces that drive ecological change and movement in Australian wetlands.

Future Park invites Australian built environment professionals and policymakers to consider the future of parks in our cities. Including spectacular images of public spaces throughout the world, the book describes the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban parks.

This book provides an integrated approach to crop growth and development and the technical aspects of greenhouse cultivation and climate management.