Will ecosystems maintain their biodiversity and function under global environmental change, and continue to sequester carbon and slow climate change?

Australian native plants are remarkably tolerant to a wide range of environmental conditions in which they grow.

Photosynthesis and leaf respiration are key metabolic processes for plant growth and their carbon exchange with the atmosphere are the largest within the global carbon cycle.

RSB Director's Seminar, Professor Maja Adamska, Monday the 17th of March 2025

Bushrocks provide critical habitat for reptiles and are a common feature in agricultural landscapes. Despite this, there is limited quantitative evidence describing the use of bushrock by biodiversity and its conservation significance in landscapes.

Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a spatial metabolomics technology used to map the distribution of metabolites in tissue cross sections or on surfaces of whole tissues.

Voltage-gated sodium (Nav) channels are essential for electrical signaling in excitable tissues, including the brain, heart, and muscles.

Orchids are renowned for their diversity of interesting and unusual floral forms and ecological interactions — and perhaps none are more interesting and unusual than the uniquely Australian Underground Orchids (Rhizanthella spp.).

A fundamental challenge in biology is dealing with high levels of heterogeneity, from genes in genomes, to developing tissues in an organism, to grass and trees in woodland biomes.