Library Books
Resource Key
When accessing content use the numbers below to guide you:
LEVEL 1
brief, basic information laid out in an easy-to-read format. May use informal language. (Includes most news articles)
LEVEL 2
provides additional background information and further reading. Introduces some subject-specific language.
LEVEL 3
lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)
Introduction
This LibGuide will help you to gather information that contributes to your notes, in order to create a presentation that outlines why the cane toad was introduced into Australia and what impacts there were as a result of this decision.
Citizen Cane Toad
Cane Toads: The Conquest
Radio Pictures Production (Producer). (2012). Cane Toads: the Conquest [online video]. http://online.clickview.com.au/mylibrary/videos/f7023e9f-ccb6-eec2-e75c-da103ec3bbc8
Definitions
- Biological control (biocontrol)noun: the control of pests by interference with their ecological status, as by introducing a natural enemy or a pathogen into the environment.
- Ecosystemnoun, Ecology: a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.
- EnvironmentEcology: the air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time.
- Food chainnoun Ecology: a series of organisms interrelated in their feeding habits, the smallest being fed upon by a larger one, which in turn feeds a still larger one, etc.
2. the chain from a food source to the ultimate consumer. - Food webnoun, Ecology: a series of organisms related by predator-prey and consumer-resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community.
- Habitatnoun: 1. the natural environment of an organism; place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism
2. the place where a person or thing is usually found - Introduced speciesAn introduced, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
- Invasive speciesAn invasive species is a plant, fungus, or animal species that is not native to a specific location (an introduced species), and which has a tendency to spread to a degree believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy or human health.
- Organismnoun 1: a form of life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes.
2. a form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protistan, or moneran. - ProducerEcology: an organism, as a plant, that is able to produce its own food from inorganic substances.
