European Farming, Australian Pests
Agricultural Settlement and Environmental Disruption in Australia, 1800-1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12303958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Warwick Frost (0000-0002-3656-7338, Australian Centre for Tourism and Hospitality GPO Box 4052, Melbourne 3001, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-143 |
| Publication date | 1998-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-3407 • E-ISSN: 1752-7023 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3197/096734098779555682 |
| OpenAlex | W2030403046 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Generally studies of European settlement in Australia have focused on exotic pests. Such an approach has tended to characterise Australian flora and fauna as weak and unable to cope with the environmental disruption resulting from the introduction of European farming. However, in this article, which considers the settlement of the high-rainfall forests of Eastern Australia, it is argued that the main pests were indigenous not exotic. In the crucial first few years the settlers encountered unexpected higher costs due to forest regrowth, insect plagues, crop-eating birds and marsupials and native predators
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Biology · Business · Fauna · Flora (microbiology · Geography · Habitat · Indigenous · Predation · Settlement (finance · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research · Ecology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |