TY  - GEN
T1  - All things harmless, useful, and ornamental : environmental transformation through species acclimatization, from colonial Australia to the world
T2  - Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
A1  - Minard, Peter Maxwell
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1098174151
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 196
CN  - QH353 .M55 2019
SN  - 9781469651620
SN  - 1469651629
SN  - 9781469651637
SN  - 1469651637
SN  - 9781469651606
SN  - 1469651602
SN  - 9781469651613
SN  - 1469651610
KW  - Introduced organisms : Australia.
KW  - Animal introduction : Australia.
KW  - Plant introduction : Australia.
KW  - Acclimatization : Australia.
KW  - Adaptation (Biology) : Australia.
KW  - Espèces introduites : Australie.
KW  - Animaux : Introduction : Australie.
KW  - Plantes : Introduction : Australie.
KW  - Acclimatation : Australie.
KW  - Adaptation (Biologie) : Australie.
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Real Estate : General.
KW  - NATURE : Ecosystems & Habitats : General.
KW  - Acclimatization
KW  - Adaptation (Biology)
KW  - Animal introduction
KW  - Introduced organisms
KW  - Plant introduction
KW  - Australia
ER  -