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A new study shows that we can use existing conservation data to predict which currently unthreatened species could become threatened and take proactive action to prevent their decline before it is too late.
Superb fairy-wrens are more likely to take risks to help members of their close social circle, according to a new study.
Dr Tobias Hayashi studied a delicate little native orchid with a cool and clever adaptation to attract pollinators.
While most spiders are creatures of solitude, a study involving researchers from ANU has found some species have become more gregarious.
Helen Osmond has watched the ins and outs of one superb fairy-wren population for three decades.
Events
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.
Over previous decades, the fields of phylogeography, macroecology, and macrophysiology have helped us to understand natural systems and how they respond to anthropogenic disturbance.
Several iconic, sclerophyllous, endemic lineages among Gondwanan families (e.g. Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Goodeniaceae, and Restionaceae) are characteristic features of the Australian flora.
Professor Craig Moritz, Director of the Research School of Biology