Daryl McPhee - Environmental History and Ecology of Moreton Bay

Daryl McPhee 2017

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

McPhee, Daryl Peter, author.

Environmental history and ecology of Moreton Bay / Daryl McPhee.

9781486307210 (paperback)

9781486307227 (epdf)

9781486307234 (epub)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ecology Queensland Moreton Bay.

Environmental policy Queensland Moreton Bay.

Moreton Bay (Qld.) Environmental conditions.

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Front cover (top to bottom): Moreton Bay shores (bertknot/Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0); Map of Moreton Bay in 1842 (Robert Dixon); Pelican on the beach, Moreton Island, Australia (gevision/Shutterstock)

Back cover (left to right): Bottlenose dolphin (Daryl McPhee); Mangroves and pneumatophores in Moreton Bay (BoundaryRider/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0); A school of dotted sweetlip Plectorhinchus picusnear North Stradbroke Island (Kelly-Anne Masterman)

Map on page viii: Prepared by Thushara Samaratunga

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