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Panizzon, Debra; Boulton, Andrew – Australian Science Teachers' Journal, 2000
Australia's most serious environmental problem is the loss of biological diversity, or biodiversity. Australia harbors much of the world's species diversity and has remarkably high numbers of endemic species. Reviews current threats to biodiversity and efforts to protect and enhance it in Australia. (Contains 29 references.) (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Elementary Secondary Education, Endangered Species, Environmental Education
Burrows, G. E. – Journal of Biological Education, 2010
Understanding flower structure is important from many perspectives such as keying out plants, understanding fruit structure, investigating pollinator biology and in plant breeding. Probably the most complicated parts of a flower are the female components (the gynoecium). Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, it is not possible for much of the…
Descriptors: Botany, Biology, Student Diversity, Web Based Instruction
Somerville, Margaret; Hickey, Sandra – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This co-authored paper offers Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal perspectives on the emergence of urban/nature/child pedagogies in a project to reclaim remnant woodlands. Set in the context of indigenous issues explored in a special edition of the journal on land based education, the paper engages critically with a claim by a group of ecologists, that…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Attitude Measures, Natural Resources, Forestry
Burrows, Geoffrey E. – Bioscience Education, 2010
Plant families are the level of the taxonomic hierarchy that many biologists use to organise their understanding of plant diversity. Consequently, from many perspectives, it is very useful to be able to recognise the major plant families "on sight". To this end numerous books and web sites have described and illustrated plant families,…
Descriptors: Biology, Foreign Countries, Internet, Plants (Botany)