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

"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 acclimati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minard, Peter Maxwell (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [2019]
Series:Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469651637_minard
Table of 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.