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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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2019]
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| Reeks: | Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
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| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469651637_minard |
Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.