Library Connect June 2025

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books, and a few articles for your interest.

Past issues of Library Connect are available on the library catalogue site at https://library.dcceew.gov.au/cgi-bin/koha/opac-page.pl?page_id=22

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The “click and collect” boxes in the Visitor Centre are still available for returning items, and Alex is very happy to leave items there for collection if that’s easier than visiting the library.

For your interest

Nature News
5 June 2025
Thousands of endangered trees preserved for centuries inside Chinese temples. Survey uncovers the rich biodiversity protected at sacred sites.
By Katie Kavanagh
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01755-z

International Journal of Wildland Fire 34, WF24140
1 May 2025
Igniting river health? Testing the effectiveness of low intensity burns to improve riparian vegetation quality in modified ecosystems
Elisha Duxbury, Kirstie Fryirs, Michelle R. Leishman and Thungghutti Natural egeneration Team.
https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24140

Nature
18 June 2025
Bogong moths use a stellar compass for long-distance navigation at night
David Dreyer et al.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09135-3

Functional Plant Biology
2025; 52(5) FP25030
Inhibitors of lysine biosynthesis enzymes as potential new herbicides
Emily R. R. Mackie, Mirrin V. McKay, Andrew S. Barrow and Tatiana P. Soares da Costa
https://www.publish.csiro.au/FP/FP25030

Queensland Museums & Community Collections
Vera’s story comes to life in Cooktown gallery renewal
Vera Scarth-Johnson Gallery opens at Cooktown Botanic Gardens
Posted by Dr Jo Wills, 14 April 2025
https://qmmdo.com.au/2025/04/14/veras-story-comes-to-life-in-cooktown-gallery-renewal/

Australian Association of Bush Regenerators
Introducing the ERIK (Environmental Restoration Integrated Knowledge) Learning System
AABR has received funding from the NSW Environmental Trust to develop an online platform to assist with the planning, implementation and monitoring of on ground work in response to specific local conditions.
https://www.aabr.org.au/aabr-projects/erik-environmental-restoration-integrated-knowledge-learning-system/

New additions to the collection

Drought country: the dry times that have shaped Australia / Robert Godfree.
Rare trees: the fascinating stories of the world’s most threatened species / Sara Oldfield & Malin Rivers ; with contributions by Adrian Newton & Peter Wilkie.
Radical by nature: the revolutionary life of Alfred Russel Wallace / James T. Costa.
The Drummonds of Hawthornden / by Rica Erickson.
Guidelines on harvesting threatened species / Dilys Roe, David Mallon, Rachel Hoffmann and Rosie Cooney.
Field guide to the seashores of South-Eastern Australia / Christine Porter, Ty G. Matthews, Alecia Bellgrove and Geoff Wescott.
To know the lovely night: the extraordinary life of acclaimed Australian scientist and writer, Mary E. White / Mary E. White and Barbara Eckersley.
Hawaiian liverworts and hornworts, a bryologists’ notebook: Vol. 1 of 5: Introduction, leafy liverworts (Acrobolbus-Cylindrocolea) / A. Virginia Freire and Emmet J. Judziewicz.
Singapore’s orchid diplomacy / Koh Buck Song.
A wild heritage: Reflections on the Anstey-Keane Dampland / Bryony Fremlin & David James.