Library Connect October 2024

This edition of Library Connect has the usual listing of new books, a few articles for your interest and an invitation to browse some more books which are ‘free to good home’. The books are good quality discards not required in the library collection and are available now.

The library is staffed Mon - Fri 9.30 - 4.30 and Alex can also be contacted by email or phone (02 6250 9480) if you need assistance.

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

Austral Ecology
The importance of competition theme in reducing taxonomic bias in the Threatened Species Bake Off
Eliza J. T. Middleton, Elroy Au, Anna-Lisa Hayes, Caitlyn Y. Forster
First published: 04 September 2024
https://doi.org/10.1111/aec.13590

Nature News
21 September 2024
Scientists are building giant ‘evidence banks’ to create policies that actually work.
Funders launch projects with US$70-million to develop tools that make rapid syntheses of the world’s science.
By Helen Pearson
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03100-2

The Conversation
Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees
Published: September 18, 2024 6.32am AEST
https://theconversation.com/walking-the-trees-we-traced-how-first-nations-groups-moved-bunya-pine-and-black-bean-trees-229914

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The greenest way to mine metals for batteries could be with plants
By Matt Simon | March 26, 2024
https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/the-greenest-way-to-mine-metals-for-batteries-could-be-with-plants

Nature Ecology & Evolution
Olfactory misinformation provides refuge to palatable plants from mammalian browsing.
Finnerty, P.B., Possell, M., Banks, P.B. et al.
8, 645–650 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02330-x

Australia’s Chief Scientist
Advice on open access models
Thursday, 29 August 2024
https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/news-and-media/advice-open-access-models
Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, has released a report that makes the case for free access to academic journal articles for all Australians.

New additions to the Collection

• Australian native plants : cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation / John W. Wrigley, Murray Fagg.
• A bolete or two : notes on Australian bolete species and some of their lamellate relatives with descriptions and trial field keys / Patrick Leonard.
• The biology of aquatic and wetland plants / Gary N. Ervin.
• The Museum : Garden issue / National Museum of Australia; guest editor Luke Keogh.
• Plants of eastern Tasmania's coastal fringe : a guide to native and introduced species / Nicky Meeson.
• Orchids of East Gippsland : a field guide / James Turner, Andrew Bould and Jennifer Wilkinson.
• Wildflowers of the High Country : a casual observer's guide / Luke Steenhuis.
• Estuary plants and what's happening to them in south-east Australia / editors, Geoff Sainty, John Hosking, Geoff Carr, Paul Adam.
• Mangroves to mountains : a field guide to the native plants of South-east Queensland / Glenn Leiper, Jan Glazebrook, Denis Cox.
• Grasses of South Australia : an illustrated guide to the native and naturalised species / John Jessop, Gilbert R. M. Dashorst, Fiona M. James.
• Wildflowers of East Gippsland : a guide to native flora observed by Bairnsdale & District Field Naturalists Club / Jennifer Wilkinson & James Turner.
• What garden pest or disease is that? : organic and chemical solutions for every garden problem / Judy McMaugh.
• Wilde orchideeën van Europa : 1-2 / J. Landwehr.
• Ten commitments revisited / editors, David Lindenmayer, Stephen Dovers and Steve Morton.
• Native trees of Australia / by James Wales Audas. [Rare, Not for loan]