| Description |
xi, 299 p. : ill., map. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Birds -- Behavior -- Australia.
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Birds -- Effect of drought on -- Australia.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Robin, Libby, 1956-
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Joseph, Leo.
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Heinsohn, Robert.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Boom and bust |
| ISBN |
9780643096066 (hbk.) |
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064309606X (hbk.) |
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9780643097094 (electronic bk.) |
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