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As Varroa spreads, now is the time to fight for Australia’s honey bees – and you can help
We have a small and vanishing window to collect bees before the inevitable rapid spread of the varroa mites, and the mass die-offs, occur.
We discovered two new Australian native mammals – the first of their kind this century
Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, discovered as part of collaborative new research published in the journal Molecular Ecology.
An arachnophobe and an arachnophile walk into a lab
“We just need to educate people and build awareness of spiders, to show that they’re not actually the bad guys we want them to be.”Pages
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19 October 2023
R. Manjunatha Kini, National University of Singapore
Toxins are thought as villains as they cause death and debilitation. In reality, they have contributed more to improving our lives than cause death.
16 October 2023
Professor Justin Borevitz
Biodiversity rests on a foundation of adaptive and neutral variation within populations and species, that interact in communities or coexist in assemblages, to define ecosystems...
18 September 2023
Professor Robert Lanfear
How do you estimate a good phylogeny? Phylogenetic trees form the backbone of much of our understanding of evolution, so it's important we try to get them right
24 August 2023
Lesley Alton, Monash University
In nature, animals contend with numerous abiotic and biotic environmental challenges simultaneously.
10 August 2023
Culum Brown, Macquarie University
The Fish Lab at Macquarie University has been studying Port Jackson sharks for over a decade. Our initial studies just tried to figure out where they go and what they do: basic...
23 June 2023
Oliver Stuart, Mikheyev Group, E&E, RSB
As climate change and land transformation advance into the future, more and more species will be unable to keep up with the rate of change imposed by human activity.
11 May 2023
Simon Hart, University of Queensland
Understanding how diversity is maintained in biological systems is a fundamental problem in biology. When addressing this problem, ecologists tend to focus on mechanisms that...
28 April 2023
Joseph Chung (Meng-Han), Jennions Group, E&E, RSB
What is the meaning of life? … I’m afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That’s it” written by the author Oliver Markus.
27 April 2023
Julia Penndorf, Aplin Group, E&E, RSB
Group-living animals form social relationships that can influence their fitness in a variety of ways.
14 April 2023
Hannah Carle, Nicotra Group, E&E, RSB
Tropical forests are globally important ecosystems that have absorbed a large portion of CO2 from fossil fuel emissions to date.
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