Special publications

Antarctic Marine Protists
This is a comprehensive guide to the protists that live in the surface waters and sea-ice south of the Antarctic Polar Front. More than 550 species are described and superbly illustrated with over 1300 light and electron micrographs and drawings. A bibliography of more than 1100 entries and a thorough glossary will make Antarctic Marine Protists an indispensible resource for marine biologists.

Australian Psylloidea Jumping Plantlice and Lerp Insects
This book discusses psylloid biology and provides a key to genera, comprehensive information on host plants and natural enemies, looks at economic significance, and gives a full listing of Australian species and their broad distributions. It sets the scene on the group, containing beautiful illustrations, and is targeted at professionals, amateurs and students.

Australian Rushes
Biology, Identification and Conservation of Restionaceae and Allied Families. A comprehensive guide to the Restionaceae of Australia and related taxa. Comprehensive background information on taxonomy, biology and conservation, identification keys, species descriptions, magnificent illustrations by Ellen Hickman of every species, and detailed anatomical micrographs of stem and roots. All you could possibly want to know about this distinctively Australian group.

Evolution of Behavioural and Ecological Diversity: Australian Acacia Thrips as Model Organisms
This book presents a novel, ‘model clades’ approach to the study of biodiversification, explicitly integrating behaviour, ecology, taxonomy, phylogenetics, and evolution.

The subjects comprise a single lineage of phytophagous thrips that has radiated on Australian Acacia, yielding over 250 species in 30 genera, of which 140 species and nine genera are newly described.

The Genus Mycena in South Eastern Australia
The Genus Mycena in south-eastern Australia is the first book to be published in Australia covering a single Australian mushroom genus. It is a co-publication between Fungal Diversity Press and ABRS.

The book covers 66 species of the mushroom genus Mycena, most of the species being from south-eastern Australia.

Marine Plants of Australia - in association with University of Western Australia Press.
A comprehensive guide to the more conspicuous seaweeds and seagrasses of the Australian coast. Over 300 species are illustrated with line drawings and underwater colour photographs. All are described, with note on distribution and guides to further information.

Nature's Investigator: the Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801–1805.
Brown was chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to be the botanist/naturalist on Matthew Flinders’ Investigator circum-navigation of Australia. This book provides a full transcription of his Diary, extensive commentary, and extracts from other contemporary sources.

Species Plantarum Flora of the World is an international initiative, modelled on Flora of Australia, to describe the vascular flora of the world to species level.

Verticordia - The Turner of Hearts
Verticordias or Featherflowers are some of the most spectacular of Australian wildflowers. This book provides detailed information on the origins, biology, conservation and cultivation of these magnificent plants.

What’s its Name? - Proteaceae is a check list of active or current plant names in the Australian Proteaceae. It has been compiled largely from the Flora of Australia publication series and the Australian Plant Name Index (APNI). As only recent (mostly since 1990).