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November 2011

last month: October

The Gardens’ Library is located on the first floor of the Botany Building at the ANBG, Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain.
Opening hours are 9.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. Members of the public may use the library by appointment.

The bulletin contains a list of new material recently received in the library. These items together with recent issues of journals and magazines are on display in the ANBG Library for approximately three to four weeks. All registered library clients are welcome to use the library and photocopy display items or reserve items for loan.

Staff may request items from the bulletin by phone, fax or email.
Phone: (02) 6250 9480
Fax: (02) 6250 9432
Email: ANBG.library@environment.gov.au

BOOKS & PAMPHLETS

To live within Earth’s limits: an Australian plan to develop a science of the whole Earth system
Roger M Gifford, Will Steffen, John J Finnigan
Canberra : Australian Academy of Science, 2010
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.science.org.au/natcoms/nc-ess/documents/ess-report2010.pdf
333.7072094 GIF

One place, many stories: West Kimberley: National Heritage listing
Canberra : Dept of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population & Communities, 2011
Also available via the Internet at:http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/west-kimberley/pubs/one-place-many-stories.pdf
333.72099414 ONE

Managing volunteers in tourism: attractions, destinations and events
Kirsten Holmes & Karen Smith
Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009
Case studies includes the Australian War Memorial, Australian Museum and the Art Gallery of NSW
338.4791 HOL

Reaching for the sun: how plants work, 2nd edn
John King
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011
571.2 KIN

Darkwood Reserve NSW. 12-16 February 2010: report.
Canberra : Australian Biological Resources Study, 2011
A Bush Blitz survey report from the north coast region of New South Wales.
Also available via the Internet at:
http://www.bushblitz.org.au/documents/bb_darkwood_report_2010.pdf
577.099443 DAR

Australian National Botanic Gardens draft management plan 2011-2021
Canberra : Director of National Parks, 2011
Comments on the draft plan must be received by Tuesday 31 January 2012
Also available via the Internet at:
http://www.anbg.gov.au/gardens/about/management/manplan/index.html
580.739471 AUS

Why people need plants
Carlton Wood & Nicolette Habgood, eds.
Kew : Kew Publishing, 2010
581.63 WHY

Wetland weeds: causes, cures and compromises
Nick Romanowski
Collingwood, Vic. ; CSIRO Publishing, 2011
581.6520994 ROM

Rainforest plants of Tasmania, 2nd edn
Phil Collier & Christine Howells
Hobart : Australian Plants Society Tasmania Hobart Group, 2007 (Plant identikit)
P 581.73409946 COL

The biology of island floras
David Bramwell & Juli Caujape-Castells, eds.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011
581.752 BIO

Coastal plants of Tasmania
Christine Howells & Heather Gulline
Hobart : Australian Plants Society Tasmania, 2011 (Plant identikit)
P 581.75109946 HOW

Flora Malesiana. Volume 19. Cucurbitaceae
WJJO de Wilde & BEE Duyfjes
Leiden : National Herbarium of the Netherlands, 2010
581.9595 FLO v. 19

Alpenblumen
Edeltraud Danesch, text; Othmar Danesch, photos
Zurich : Silva-Verlag, 1969
Flowers of the European Alps, in German.
ANBG copy donated by Anne Fuchs.

582.13094947 DAN

Woodland wildflowers of Tasmania, 2nd edn
Phil Collier & Christine Howells
Hobart : Australian Plants Society Tasmania Hobart Group, 2006 (Plant identikit)
P 582.1309946 COL

Alpine wildflowers of Tasmania, 2nd edn
Phil Collier
Hobart : Society for Growing Australian Plants Tasmanian Region, 1995 (Plant identikit)
P 582.1309946 COL

Wildflowers of Mt. Wellington, 2nd edn
Phil Collier
Hobart : Society for Growing Australian Plants Tasmanian Region, 1997 (Plant identikit)
P 582.13099462 COL

Checklist of Australian trees : alphabetical listing of common and scientific names
Peter J Robson
[S.l. : The Author, 1993?]
ANBG copy is a photocopy donated by the Peninsula Woodturners Guild Inc, November 2011.
Ref 582.160994 ROB

Start with the leaves: a simple guide to common orchids and lilies of the Adelaide Hills
Robert Lawrence
Richmond, S.A. : Heritage Bushcare, 2011
584.40994232 LAW

Common orchids of Tasmania, 2nd edn
Phil Collier
Hobart : Australian Plants Society Tasmania, Hobart Group, 2010 (Plant identikit)
P 584.409946 COL

Moss flora of China. Vol. 5. Erpodiaceae - Climaciaceae, English edn
Wu Peng-cheng, Marshall R Crosby , editors-in-chief
Beijing : Science Press : St. Louis : Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2011
588.20951 MOS

Australian high country owls
Jerry Olsen
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2011
598.970994 OLS

Hartmann & Kester’s Plant propagation: principles and practices, 8th edn
Hudson T Hartmann [et al.]
Boston : Prentice Hall, 2011
631.53 HAR

The mulch book, rev. & updated edn
Mary Horsfall
Sydney : Reed New Holland, 2011
631.87 HOR

Management plan for myrtle rust on the national parks estate
Sydney : Office of Heritage & Environment, 2011
Also available via the Internet at: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/pestsweeds/110683myrtlerustmp.pdf
P 632.492 MAN

Vanilla orchids: natural history and cultivation
Ken Cameron
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2011
633.82 CAM

Planting for wildlife: a practical guide to restoring native woodlands
Nicola Munro & David Lindenmayer
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2011
634.9560994 MUN

The conscientious gardener: cultivating a garden ethic
Sarah Hayden Reichard
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011
Contents: The skin of the earth -- Water, our most precious resource -- Should you go native? -- Aliens among us -- The wild kingdom -- Preventing and managing pests -- Confronting climate change -- Recycle, reduce, reuse, repurpose -- Epilogue : toward a garden ethic -- Appendix : global list of invasive garden plants.
635.048 REI

The bush tomato handbook
Ange Vincent
Alice Springs : Ninti One, 2010
Information on  the horticultural production of Solanum centrale (bush tomato).
Also available via the Internet at:
http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au/resource/dkcrc-bush-tomato-handbook.pdf
P 635.6420994 VIN

Australian grasses: a gardener’s guide to native grasses, sedges, rushes and trees
Nick Romanowski
[Carlton, Vic.]: Hyland House, 2011
635.93490994 ROM

The golden age of flowers: botanical illustration in the age of discovery, 1600-1800
Celia Fisher
London : British Library, 2011
758.42 FIS

E-BOOKS

Conservation biology for all
Navjot S Sodhi & Paul R Ehrlich, eds.
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010
Available via the Internet at:http://www.mongabay.com/conservation-biology-for-all.html

 ANNUAL REPORTS

Australia. Dept of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population & Communities 2010-2011
Botanic Gardens & Parks Authority (Kings Park, WA) 2010/2011
Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne 2011

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

Seed-based approach for identifying flora at risk from climate warming
Anne Cochrane, Matthew I Daws & Fiona R Hay
Austral Ecology, vol. 36, 2011, pp. 923-935
Also available to DSEWPaC staff via the Intranet at:http://ejournals.ebsco.com/Article.asp?ContributionID=26284386

Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science
Stephanie Pau et al.
Global Change Biology, vol. 17, 2011, pp. 3633-3643

The role of natural history institutions and bioinformatics in conservation biology
Joshua Drew
Conservation Biology, vol. 25, no. 6, Dec 2011, pp. 1250-1252
Also available via the Internet at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01725.x/pdf

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins
Grass Phylogeny Working Group II
New Phytologist, 2011, early view, doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03972.x

What’s best for bees
Sharon Levy
Nature, vol. 479, 10 November 2011, pp. 164-165
Pollinating insects are in a crisis. Understanding bees’ relationships with introduced species could help.
Also available via the Internet at:
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111109/full/479164a.html?s=news_rss

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

ANBG Volunteer Guides’ meeting minutes 15 November 2011
Growing Friends record of meeting 5 November 2011

Is Marasmiellus affixus a lichen ?
Heino Lepp
Fungimap Newsletter, 44, Oct 2011, p. 14.

Australia’s plants, Australia’s garden
Canberra : Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2011
Promotional pamphlet
Archive 2011/04

Visitor guide
Canberra : Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2011
Pamphlet guide, includes map
Archive 2011/03

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

# Indicates a new listing

7th International Association for Lichenology Symposium
9-13 January 2012
Bangkok, Thailand
http://ww.ru.ac.th/lichen/IAL7

Garden Paths
2012 American Public Gardens Association Conference

19-23 June 2012
Columbus, Ohio
http://publicgardens.org/

12th International Coral Reef Symposium
9-13 July 2012
Cairns, FNQ
http://www.icrs2010.com

Education and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
8th BGCI International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens
22-28 October 2012
Mexico
http://www.bgci.org/education/mexicoform/

 

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