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February 2011

last month: January

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

Desert channels: the impulse to conserve
Libby Robin, Chris Dickman & Mandy Martin (eds)
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2010
This book combines art, science and history in the investigation of the desert channel country of south-western Queensland.
333.73099434 DES

Conservation by proxy: indicator, umbrella, keystone, flagship and other surrogate species
Tim Caro
Washington, DC : Island Press, 2010
333.9516 CAR

The Victorian bush: it’s ‘original and natural’ condition
Ron Hateley
Melbourne : Polybractea Press, 2010
An account based on extracts from logs, reports and diaries of Victorian explorers, early settlers, travellers and officials of vegetation and fauna they encountered.
577.09945 HAT

A bush capital: a natural history of the Canberra region
Ian Fraser & Peter Marsack
Collinwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2011
578.09947 FRA

An orchard invisible: a natural history of seeds
Jonathan Silvertown
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010
581.467 SIL

Large illustrated encyclopedia of medicinal plants
Tatiana Ilina
Moscow :Eksmo, 2008
In Russian, with illustrations and Latin plant names.
581.6340947 ILI

All about medicinal plants: atlas-directory
SJ Radel
Moscow : Crystal, SZKEO, Onyx, 2008
In Russian, with illustrations and Latin plant names.
581.6340947 RAD

Medicinal plants in Australia. Volume 2. Gums, resins, tannin and essential oils
Cheryll J Williams
Dural, NSW : Rosenberg, 2011
581.6340994 WIL

Weeds of Central Australia: a field guide
Sunil Dhanji
Darwin : Greening Australia NT, 2009
581.65209942 DHA

101 plants of the West Tropics: a field guide
Martin Cohen & Julia Cooper
Cairns : Wild About the Tropics, 2010
581.99436 COH

Plants of the central part of Russia
Vladimir E Skvortsov
Moscow : 5 for Knowledge, 2008
In Russian, with illustrations and Latin plant names.
581.947 SKV

Wildflower country: discovering biodiversity in Australia’s southwest
Stanley & Kaisa Breeden
Fremantle : Fremantle Press, 2010
Chiefly photographs of flowers from southwest Western Australia. Photos are built up from a succession of digital images with differing depths of field.
582.13099412 BRE

Mistletoes of southern Australia
David M Watson
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2011
583.880994 WAT

Bees, wasps and ants : the indispensable role of Hymenoptera in gardens
Eric Grissell
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2010
595.79 GRI

Seeds, sex and civilization: how the hidden life of plants has shaped our world
Peter Thompson
London : Thames & Hudson, 2010
631.521 THO

Plant protection 1. Pests, diseases and weeds, 4 th edn
Ruth M Kerruish, Phillip W Unger
Hughes, ACT : RootRot Press ACT, 2010
632.90994 KER

Grow me instead: a guide for gardeners in ACT & high country
[ Canberra]: Nursery & Garden Industry Australia, [2008?]
75 p. booklet with non-weedy plants suggested as alternatives.
P 635.09947 GRO

Drip irrigation for every landscape and all climates
Robert Kourik
White River Jct., Vt. : Metamorphic Press, 2009
635.91587 KOU

Bulbophyllums: the incomplete guide: from A to Why ?
Bill Thoms
Valrico, Fl. : B Thoms, 2009
635.9344 THO

Starting out with palms: including palms suitable for gardens and containers
David L Jones
Sydney : Reed New Holland, 2010
635.9345 JON

Native plants for Central Australian gardens
Felicity Forth & Andy Vinter
Alice Springs : Greening Australia NT, 2007
635.951942 NAT

The biochar solution: carbon farming and climate change
Albert Bates
Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, 2010
662.74 BAT

A passion for place: gardens of the Blue Mountains
Alison Halliday & Joanne Hambrett
Mlebourne : Bloomings Books, 2010
712.099445 HAL

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

The role of botanic gardens in the science and practice of ecological restoration
Kate A Hardwick et al.
Conservation Biology, 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01632x
Full text available to staff at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01632.x/abstract

Recovery plan for the endangered taxonomy profession
David L Pearson, Andrew L. Hamilton, Terry L Erwin
BioScience, vol. 61, no. 1 (Jan 2011), pp. 58-63
Full text available to staffat: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bio.2011.61.1.11

A framework for the ecology of arid Australia
DM Stafford Smith & SR Morton
Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 18 (1990), pp. 255-278

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Golson, Toby 2011, ‘Botanic gardens partnership to help conserve threatened species’, Australasian Plant Conservation, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 38-39.

Orchard, AE 2011, ‘A review of Australian Adenostemma J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. (Asteraceae: Eupatorieae), Telopea, vol. 13(1-2), pp. 341-348.

Ballantyne, Roy, Packer, Jan, Sutherland, Lucy A 2011, ‘Visitors’ memories of wildlife tourism: implications for the design of powerful interpretive experiences’, Tourism Management, vol. 32 (2011), pp. 770-779

Growing Friends record of meeting 5 Feb 2011
ANBG Volunteer Guides meeting minutes: 18 Jan 2011, 15 Feb 2011
Summary of 2010 data for volunteer guides

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

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# Indigenous Values Workshops with Rod Mason
Organised by Friends of Grasslands
10-11 March Making string, glue and baskets
20-21 April Resource flows in the landscape
Garuwanga, near Nimmitabel NSW
Contact Geoff Robertson: geoffrobertson@iprimus.com.au or ph 02 6241 4065

# Organic Matter Management & Compost Use in Horticulture
4-7 April 2011
University of Adelaide
http://www.compost-for-horticulture.com

13 th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics (CAVEPS)
27-30 April 2011
Perth Cultural Centre, WA
http://wa-oigc.curtin.edu.au/conference.cfm

# Back to the Future
International Plant Propagators’ Society Australian Region 39 th Annual Conference
26-29 May 2011
Grace Hotel Sydney
http://www.ipps.org.au/confer.html

# 11 th World Conference on Parasitic Plants
7-12 June 2011
Martina Franca, Italy
http://ipps2011.ba.cnr.it

# Fungimap VI
14-19 July 2011
Denmark, Western Australia
http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/fungimap/fungimap-vi-conference

# Explore, Experience, Educate 6 th World Environmental Education Congress
19-23 July 2011
Brisbane
http://www.weec2011.org

# The Eternal Order in Nature: the Science of Botanical Illustration
18 July – 7 August 2011
Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne
http://eternalorderinnature.squarespace.com/about-the-exhibition/

XVIII International Botanical Congress
24-30 July 2011
Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre
http://www.ibc2011.com/

# Australian Garden History Society 32 nd Annual National Conference
19-21 August 2011
Maryborough Qld
http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au/conferences_tours

23 rd Asian-Pacific Weed Science Society Conference
25-30 September 2011
The Sebel, Cairns, FNQ
http://www.apwss.com/

# Australian Native Plants Society (Aust) 2011 National Biennial Conference
‘Australian Plants in a Wondrous Web’

2-7 October 2011
Westminster School, Marion, South Australia
http://www.australianplantssa.asn.au/conference_2011.html

# Garden Clubs of Australia 2011 Biennial National Convention ‘Crossing the Mountains’
9-13 October 2011
Blue Mountains, NSW
http://www.gardenclubs.org.au

National Conference on Volunteering 2011
9-11 November 2011
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/conference

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

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

 

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