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

"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 acclimatizatio...

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Main Author:	Minard, Peter Maxwell (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:	Flows, migrations, and exchanges.
Subjects:	Introduced organisms > Australia. Animal introduction > Australia. Plant introduction > Australia. Acclimatization > Australia. Adaptation (Biology) > Australia. Acclimatization. Adaptation (Biology) Animal introduction. Introduced organisms. Plant introduction. Australia.
Physical Description:	ix, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format:	Book