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The amazing diversity we see in Australian animal developed early and has slowed considerably in the last 10 million years, say Ian Brennan and Scott Keogh from the ANU Research School of Biology.
How does the impact of the early-life environment affect the ageing process?
New research involving biologists from The Australian National University (ANU) shows that some birds are just as skilled as humans at eavesdropping.
Kara Youngentob's research interests are in applied ecological research to inform and improve wildlife management and conservation decisions.
Sasha Mikheyev's lab uses technological advances, largely in sequencing, to understand how organisms respond to biotic changes in their environments.
Within two days of Josh Penalba submitting his PhD, the Biology graduate started working in a lab at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Classical weed biocontrol refers to the deliberate introduction of co-evolved host-specific natural enemy of a weed.
In nature, organisms do not exist in isolation. They interact with surrounding biotic and abiotic components to form complex ecological networks, such as food webs. It is the states and dynamics of these networks that then foster biodiversity at the community level or beyond.
Information about danger is vital for wildlife, yet can be difficult to gain in complex environments. Anthropogenic and other noise can disrupt acoustic communication, and predators may be visually hidden in cluttered environments.
New Guinea is the heart of global linguistic diversity. New Guinea makes up 1% of the global land area as an island, containing less than <0.2% of the world's population and 20% of all languages. The obvious linguistic and anthropological question is why?
Bushfires are a major disturbance process in the Australian landscape, affecting our native wildlife and their habitat. The dry sclerophyll forests of south-eastern Australia are one of the most fire-prone regions in the world and are dominated by tree species from the Eucalyptus genus.
The Australian Acoustic Observatory (A2O) was created five years ago, a unique infrastructure to monitor vocal fauna across Australia using a network of solar powered acoustic recorders.