Library Connect February 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

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 selection of ‘free to good home’ books has been refreshed so please drop in for a browse.

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

The Conversation
With just 5 years to go, the world is failing on a vital deal to halt biodiversity loss
Published: February 18, 2025 6.06am AEDT
Justine Bell-James & James Watson
https://theconversation.com/with-just-5-years-to-go-the-world-is-failing-on-a-vital-deal-to-halt-biodiversity-loss-249841

The Guardian
‘The risk of extinction is accelerating’: world’s botanic gardens raise alarm with space to protect endangered plants running out
University of Cambridge research suggests living collections have collectively reached peak capacity
Donna Ferguson
Published Sat 25 Jan 2025 22.49 AEDT
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/25/the-risk-of-extinction-is-accelerating-worlds-botanic-gardens-raise-alarm-with-space-to-protect-endangered-plants-running-out

Phytotaxa, 2024; 678(1) 83-95
Characterisation of Adelopetalum argyropus (Orchidaceae; Malaxideae) with the description of two related new species and two new combinations
David L. Jones, Heidi C. Zimmer, Mark A. Clements, Jeremy J. Bruhl, Joel Christian, Lachlan M. Copeland, Ian Hutton, Alexandra Andersen, Melinda Wilson.
https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.678.1.9

Brighter Side News
This tiny plant could revolutionize agriculture and combat climate change Discover how hornworts’ CO₂-concentrating mechanisms could boost crop efficiency by 60%, revolutionizing agriculture and combating climate change.
Rebecca Shavit
Published Feb 10, 2025 3:07 PM PST
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/this-tiny-plant-could-revolutionize-agriculture-and-combat-climate-change/

Australian Journal of Botany 73, BT23088
Published: 30 January 2025
Tasmania’s giant eucalypts: discovery, documentation, macroecology and conservation status of the world’s largest angiosperms
Brett Mifsud, Lynda D. Prior, Grant J. Williamson, Jan Corigliano, Carl Hansen, Robert Van Pelt, Steven Pearce, Thomas Greenwood and David M. J. S. Bowman.
https://doi.org/10.1071/BT23088

New additions to the Collection

• Weedlings and seedlings: a field guide to seedling identification for bush regeneration / Rusty Linnane; botanical diagrams by Chris Hansen.
• The fungi of Kangaroo Island - and beyond: an illustrated field guide to the larger fungi of Southern Australia / Pamela S. Catcheside, David E.A. Catcheside.
• Living with wildlife: a guide for our homes and backyards / Tanya Loos.
• Seeds: time capsules of life / Rob Kesseler & Wolfgang Stuppy ; Edited & designed by Alexandra Papadakis.
• Australian trees and shrubs: common and scientific names and toxic properties / Morris Lake.
• Turning weeds into solutions : read the weed / Gwyn Jones.
• The hidden world of mosses / Neil Bell; with photography by Des Callaghan.
• The macadamia: Australia's gift to the world: a history of the finest nut in the world and the industry it supports / Ian McConachie AM.
• Wattles of Victoria and Tasmania / Neville Walsh, Daniel J. Murphy, Arthur Court and Alan Gibb.
• Illustrated garden glossary / Enid Mayfield.