Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series
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Seminars from the RSB Division of Ecology and Evolution (E&E).
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Pollinators are essential to plant reproduction, community structure, and ecosystem health, but those inhabiting alpine environments face strong thermal constraints.
Over the course of my PhD, I have had the pleasure of working in Australia's sub-alpine grasslands investigating the effects of heat and drought on plant functioning and carbon cycling.
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Over the last three years of my PhD, I have been working with Anangu researching why ecologically and culturally significant plants are dying during extreme heatwaves and drought
Serendipita is a genus of beneficial root-associated fungi (Basidiomycota) that promotes plant growth, enhances nutrient acquisition, and improves plant resilience to environmental stresses.
This seminar examines evidence for prehistoric marsupial translocations across Wallacea and Near Oceania, focusing on species such as cuscus, wallabies, and bandicoots.
This talk provides an overview of the program’s national-scale approach, including standardised biodiversity monitoring, targeted research to resolve key knowledge gaps, and science-guided reintroductions across a network of AWC properties and partnership areas.
Velvet ants (mutillids) are a diverse and charismatic family of parasitoid wasps, characterised by extreme sexual dimorphism and a striking array of anti-predator adaptations.
This thesis examines the effect of climate change on a high-elevation ecosystem of Australia. It is expected that increases in temperature and changes in rainfall patterns will strongly influence both plant communities and the soil environments that support them.
I will talk about how deep geological and climatic history has shaped the genetic architecture of Australian fauna, with a focus on two contrasting systems: the arid zone and the Australian alps.
My research contributes to broader insights into sexual selection, life-history evolution, and the potential impacts of environmental change on reproductive dynamics in natural populations.
Plants employ a suite of gene regulatory mechanisms that enable them to occupy a diverse range of environments and respond to ongoing perturbations.
Multilevel societies—where social groups show intergroup tolerance and repeatedly associate and merge with specific other groups—are among the most complex forms of social systems in vertebrates.
As genomic data have become increasingly cheap to generate, they have seen a range of new uses for understanding pest populations.
The molecular clock hypothesis proposes that evolutionary change occurs as a temporally regular process, occurring at a rate that might fluctuate through time, but still remains more-or-less consistent.