Booderee National Park : the jewel of Jervis Bay / David Lindenmayer, Christopher MacGregor, Nick Dexter and Martin Fortescue ; photographs by Esther Beaton
Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Fire; Chapter 3 Predators and predation; Chapter 4 Herbivores and herbivory; Chapter 5 Weeds and invasive plants; Chapter 6 The future; Appendix: Common and scientific names; Sources and further reading; About the authors; Index
Summary
Discover why Booderee National Park is a special part of Australia's natural heritage. Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450 000 visitors each year. The park has many special features, including dramatic wave cut platforms and sea caves, some of the whitest beach sands in Australia, and very high densities of native predators such as the Powerful Owl and the Diamond Python. This book outlines the biology and ecology of Booderee National Park. Booderee packs an extraordinary level of biodiversity into a small area (roughly 6500 hectares), with more than 26