Library Connect August 2025

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

The library is staffed Mon – Fri 9.30 – 4.30 and Alex can also be contacted by email, phone or Teams if you need assistance. 

The “click and collect” box in the Visitor Centre is 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

Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 75, ES24007
1 August 2025
Variability of Australian climate and future changes
I. G. Watterson
https://doi.org/10.1071/ES24007

Nature – Technology feature
11 August 2025.
Six questions to ask before jumping into a spreadsheet
Spreadsheet software can be frustrating, but adopting some helpful habits can improve its effectiveness.
By Stephanie Melchor
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02511-z

Ecology Letters
First published: 02 December 2024
A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities
Understanding the role of climate in the assembly of rainforest tree communities is informative for predicting how future climates will impact species and communities.
Julian Radford-Smith, Hao Ran Lai, Ella Cathcart-van Weeren, John M. Dwyer
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70014

International Journal of Wildland Fire 34, WF25002
Published 8 August 2025
Extensive fires in Australia’s northern spinifex deserts – investigating the 2023 ‘Black Spring’ and the influence of indigenous fire management
Rohan Fisher, Sarah Legge, Gareth Catt and Hannah Cliff
https://doi.org/10.1071/WF25002

Nature News
31 July 2025
Google AI model mines trillions of images to create maps of Earth ‘at any place and time’
The system will save time spent on processing satellite data, researchers say — but they hope the tech firm will share more about how it works.
By Jeff Tollefson
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02412-1

Public Garden Magazine 2025; 40(3) 28-29
Digging deep: Libraries and Herbaria at Public Gardens: Vital collections
Ana Nino & Leora Siegel
https://members.publicgardens.org/resource/public-garden-magazine-volume-40-issue-3/

New additions to the collection

• Mosses, liverworts, and hornworts of the world : a guide to every order / Joanna Wilbraham.
• Wildflowers of the Darling Downs / by the Condamine Country Plant Group (Lisa Churchward, Patricia Gardner, Steven Plant & Greg Spearritt)
• Wild collections : specimens, stories and science from CSIRO / Andrea Wild.
• The Routledge Handbook of cultural ecosystem services [electronic resource] / edited by Pamela D. McElwee, Karen E. Allen, Rachelle K. Gould, Minna Hsu and Jun He.
• Grafting grevilleas : a guide for the home propagator / Maria Hitchcock.
• The guide to the Australian Capital Territory's wildlife / Angus McNab.
• Planet fungi : a photographer's foray / Catherine Marciniak, Stephen Axford & Tom May.
• Planting for native birds, bees and butterflies : how to create a garden that attracts Australian wildlife / Jaclyn Crupi ; illustrations by Claire Mosley.
• Australia's agricultural identity : an Aboriginal yarn / by Joshua Gilbert.
• Medicinal lichens : indigenous wisdom and modern pharmacology / Robert Dale Rogers, RH(AHG) ; photographs by Jason Hollinger.