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May 2011

last month: April

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

Indigenous peoples and the collaborative stewardship of nature: knowledge binds and institutional conflicts
Anne Ross … [et al.]
Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2011
304.2 IND

Dry times : blueprint for a red land
Mark Stafford Smith and Julian Cribb
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2009
333.7360994 STA

Exploring Namadgi on foot : 40 bushwalks in Canberra’s national park
Graeme Barrow
Canberra : Dagraja Press, 2010
333.78309947 BAR

Namadgi : a national park for the national capital
Canberra : National Parks Association of the ACT, 2011
333.78309947 NAM

Ngunnawal language handbook
Canberra : Ngunnawal Language Centre, 2002
P 499.15 NGU

The critical decade: climate science, risks and responses
Will Steffen
Barton, ACT: Climate Commission Secretariat, Dept of Climate Change & Energy Efficiency,2011
Also available via the Internet at: http://climatecommission.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/The-Critical-Decade_final_low-res.pdf
P 551.5253 STE

The symbiotic habit
Angela E. Douglas
Princeton NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010
577.85 DOU

The book of fungi: a life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world
Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011
579.5 ROB

Santos MEB: Museum of Economic Botany: the Museum of Economic Botany at the Adelaide Botanic Garden: a souvenir
Peter Emmett and Tony Kanellos (eds.)
Adelaide : Board of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide & State Herbarium, 2010
580.740994231 MUS

Flower hunters
Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009
580.922 GRI

Weeds of the Riverina : a guide to identification and control
Jackie Miles, Adam Craig and Jeremy Crocker
Eastern and Western Riverina Noxious Weeds Advisory Groups, 2007
http://www.riverinaweeds.org.au/Documents/images/Riverina_Weed_DL_v7_(2).pdf
P 581.652099448 WEE

A census of the vascular plants of Tasmania and index to The student's flora of Tasmania and Flora of Tasmania online, 2011 edn
ML Baker & MF Duretto
Hobart : Tasmanian Herbarium, 2011
Also available at: http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/collections_and_research/research/tasmanian_vascular_plant_census
Ref 581.9946 BAK

Carnivorous plants and their habitats
Stewart McPherson
Dorset : Redfern Natural History Productions, 2010
Vol. 1. Introduction -- Tables turned : a new natural order -- Carnivorous plants of the world -- Evolution of carnivorous plants -- Associated life: mutualists and infauna -- Habitats of carnivorous plants -- Snap traps -- Pitcher plants -- Vol. 2. Sticky-leaved insect-eating plants -- Corkscrew plants: Genlisea -- Bladderworts: Utricularia -- The future of carnivorous plants and their habitats.
583.75 MCP

Liverworts, mosses and hornworts of southwest Asia (Marchantiophyta, Bryophyta, Anthocerotophyta) : a systematic treatise on liverworts, mosses and hornworts with keys to genera and species occurring in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sinai Peninsula, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen (incl. Socotra Island)
Harald Kurschner and Wolfgang Frey
Stuttgart : J Cramer, 2011 (Nova Hedwigia. Beiheft 139)
588.095 KUR

Between the leaves: stories of Australian women, writing and gardens
Katie Holmes
Crawley, WA : UWA Publishing, 2011
Introduction: writing the garden -- Gertrude Bell: a garden's beginning -- Eva Kirk: the niece's story -- Mildred Hood: a garden of dreams -- Ann Tully: a defiant garden -- Jean Galbraith: garden of friendship -- Winifred Stephensen: garden of dissent -- Katharine Susannah Prichard: garden of consolation -- Wendy O'Dowd: a garden in a marriage -- Judith Wright: the poet's gardens -- Epilogue.
635.092294 HOL

Gardens of the goldfields : a central Victorian sojourn
Mandy Stroebel
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2010
712.099453 STR

Contemporary botanical illustration with the Eden Project : challenging colour and texture
Rosie Martin and Meriel Thurstan
London : Batsford, 2008
743.7 MAR

REPRINTS AND VERTICAL FILE

Documenting effects of urbanization on flora using herbarium records
Rebecca W Dolan, Marcia E Moore & Jessica D Stephens
Journal of Ecology, vol. 99, 2011 “Early view”
doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01820.x

Population viability analysis with species occurrence data from museum collections
Olav Skarpaas & Odd E Stabbetorp
Conservation Biology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 577-586
Also available to staff via the Intranet at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01636.x/abstract

Restoration seed banks – a matter of scale
David J. Merritt & Kingsley W Dixon
Science, vol. 332, 22 April 2011, pp. 424-425.

Banksias born to burn
Tianhua He, Byron B Lamont & Katherine S Downes
New Phytologist, vol. 191, July 2011, pp. 5-7
doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03663.x

Did central Australian megafaunal extinction coincide with abrupt ecosystem collapse or gradual climate change ?
Brett P Murphy, Grant J Williamson & David MJS Bowman
Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 20, 2011 “Early view”
doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00668.x

AUDIO VISUAL

Frog calls of the ACT and south-east NSW
Ederic Slater
[ Canberra : Ginninderra Catchment Group, 2005]
CD with calls of 30 taxa.
AV 597.8909947 SLA

ARCHIVE COLLECTION

Growing Friends Record of Meeting 7 May 2011
ANBG Volunteer Guides’ Meeting Minutes 17 May 2011

CONFERENCES, COURSES and EVENTS

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# Carved Trees: Aboriginal Cultures of Western New South Wales
Until 26 June 2011
State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney
http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au

# National Tree Day
31 July 2011
http://www.treeday.planetark.org

# The Garden of Ideas
Australian Garden History Society national touring exhibition
4 July – 21 October 2011
Melbourne
Exhibition at Johnston Collection Gallery, access only by booking
Also includes lecture programme and study days
http://www.johnstoncollection.org

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

15 th International Congress of Myriapodology
17-22 July 2011
Womens College, University of Queensland
http://www.15icm.org/

16 th NSW Weeds Conference
Making a difference – from country to coast

18-21 July 2011
Pacific Bay Conference Centre, Coffs Harbour
http://2011weeds.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/weeds.htm

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/

# 2 nd National Biodiscovery Forum 2011
4-5 August 2011
Flinders University, Adelaide
http://www.flinders.edu.au/national-biodiscovery-forum/

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

# Landscape Design Today: Global Diversity and Parallels
Australian Landscape Conference 2011
9-13 September 2011
Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, Melbourne
http://www.landscapeconference.com

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

# 14 th International River Symposium
26-29 September 2011
Brisbane
http://www.riversymposium.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

2011 BGANZ Congress ‘Staying Valuable and Viable’
20-23 October 2011
Albury, NSW
http://www.bganz.org.au/bganzevents

National Conference on Volunteering 2011 ‘Inspire, Challenge, Influence’
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

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

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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