Description |
1 online resource (ix, 196 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Flows, migrations, and exchanges
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Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
"Species acclimatization -- the organized introduction of organisms to a new region -- is much maligned in the present day. However, colonization depended on moving people, plants and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters and exchange supposedly useful local and exotic organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement, arguing that the colonies, not the imperial centers, led the movement for species acclimatization"-- Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Introduced organisms -- Australia.
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Introduced organisms. |
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Australia. |
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Animal introduction -- Australia.
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Animal introduction. |
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Plant introduction -- Australia.
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Plant introduction. |
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Acclimatization -- Australia.
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Acclimatization. |
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Adaptation (Biology) -- Australia.
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Adaptation (Biology) |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Minard, Peter Maxwell. All things harmless, useful, and ornamental. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469651606 (DLC) 2019005296 (OCoLC)1085576661 |
ISBN |
9781469651620 (electronic book) |
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1469651629 (electronic book) |
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9781469651637 (electronic book) |
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1469651637 (electronic book) |
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9781469651606 |
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1469651602 |
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9781469651613 |
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1469651610 |
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