All things harmless, useful, and ornamental : environmental transformation through species acclimatization, from colonial Australia to the world /

Minard, Peter Maxwell,

All things harmless, useful, and ornamental : environmental transformation through species acclimatization, from colonial Australia to the world / Pete Minard. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages). - Flows, migrations, and exchanges .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Edward Wilson: acclimatization gets organized -- Local acclimatization theories -- Colonial creations -- Regulating and understanding victorian fisheries -- Aquaculture -- Hunting Victoria -- The decline of terrestrial acclimatization -- The transformation of fish acclimatization.

"Species acclimatization --



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Introduced organisms--Australia.
Animal introduction--Australia.
Plant introduction--Australia.
Acclimatization--Australia.
Adaptation (Biology)--Australia.


Electronic Books.

QH353 / .A458 2019