Glob Change Biol 11:869-880 Watson RA, Coles RG, Lee Long WJ (1993) Simulation esti- mates of annual yield and landed value for commercial penaeid prawns from a tropical seagrass habitat, northern Queensland, Australia. Mar Freshw Res 44:211-220 Waycott M, Collier C, McMahon K, Ralph ...
Native to America, the cane toad (癞蛤蟆) was introduced to northern Queensland 70 years ago to control sugarcane beetles (甘蔗害虫). The toads failed in that duty but spread acrossQueenslandand into neighboring northern area. Now it calmly invades(侵略)the states of Western Australia and New ...
native garden in a cottage style.I had the chance to see Mike and Lesleyas garden last Friday and was surprised to see the number of Central Queensland native plants taken to Toowoomba that have thrived.Added to these plants, the garden also contains those unique plants that could only grow...
Copper is an essential micronutrient for plants to survive, but at high concentrations (>20gg 1 ) in plant tissues, it can cause foliar chlorosis, stunted growth, and ultimately plant death. The Roseby Corridor in Central Queensland (near Cloncurry) is host to copper metallophytes ( Polycarpa...
Finnish Lapland, in the far north of Europe, is home to some 180,000 people and around 200,000 reindeer (驯鹿). The animals live wild but each one has an owner, identified by a mark on its ear. Anne Ollila, 50, one of 4,000 such owners, works in the Finnish part of this regio...
This study depicts broad-scale revegetation patterns following sand mining on North Stradbroke Island, south-eastern Queensland, Australia. Methods Based on an ecological timeline spanning 4–20 years post-rehabilitation, the structure of these ecosystems (n = 146) was assessed by distinguishing between...
The large yellow toads,native to South and Central America, were introduced into the north-easternAustralian state of Queenslandin 1935 in an attempt to stop beetles and other insects from de-stroyingsugarcane crops. Now up t0 200 million of the poisonous toads exist in thecountry, and they ...
1997. The effects of ecological rehabilitations on vegetation recruitment: some observations from the wet Tropics of North Queensland. Forest Ecology and Management. 99: 133 - 152.Tucker, N.I.J., Murphy, J.M. (1997) The effects of ecological rehabilitation on vegetation recruitment: Some ...
MY FIRST carbon neutral two days was spent in North Queensland at Hidden Valley, 70km north-west of Townsville, where the weather was cool to cold and damp to wet but an uplifting experience even with the weather. This resort and its owners the McLennan family are marvellous hosts with a ...
ACROSS Central Queensland at the moment a Western Australian clumping plant is finding favour. The plant is the Kangaroo Paw (pictured below left) or Anigozanthos and with their distinctive flowers and diversity of colours and forms the Kangaroo Paw or Anigozanthos has become an Australian icon...