This educational material is produced to help government agencies, the academic community, and volunteers to identify invasive alien plant species in their area of work and that pose a threat in the landscape. Early detection of the species is an essential first step in the cost-effective removal...

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect other trophic levels and influence ecosystem properties. Variation in plant functional traits, and trait...

Biosecurity Queensland (BQ), a service of the Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) has an Emergency Management Unit (EMU) focused on optimising BQ's preparedness for emergency and incident response. EMU aims to review, improve and develop systems to...

This book with ten chapters is a practical manual on all aspects of organic grassland management and presents advice backed up by scientific explanation. It is aimed primarily for organic farmers, agricultural students, and organic advisers and consultants. However, it will also be useful for the...

This handbook (Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook) is a complete source of drug information relevant for animals. Providing referenced dosing recommendations in each monograph, this book offers doses for a wide range of species, including dogs, cats, exotic animals, and farm animals, in a single...

This new handbook of the conifers is departing from this traditional approach in that it includes all the world's 615 species of conifers, of which some 200 occur in the tropics. It gives as much information about these and the Southern Hemisphere conifers as about the better known species, drawing ...

Completely revised, updated, and now with colour photographs and illustrations in every chapter, The Everglades Handbook provides a breadth and depth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades that cannot be found anywhere else. Written by Thomas Lodge, one of the most respected...

The spread of introduced conifers (wildings) threatens biological conservation, landscape values and pastoral productivity of large areas of montane New Zealand. Considerable resources are spent annually on their control. This paper reviews the background to a guideline manual that has been written ...