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Professor Kruuk will receive $3.3 million in funding from the ARC to pursue research into the effects of changing environments on wild animal populations.
The unique genetic make-up of a group of Australian frogs could be the key to their survival, allowing them to better withstand our harsh climate.
Why judging a book by its cover has led to a tangled family tree for the longhorn beetle.
A bird study led by The Australian National University (ANU) provides new understanding of the ways birds and mammals respond to a rapidly warming world.
New Holland honeyeaters are experts at sounding the alarm when there’s danger, using a two-stage alarm call. They ‘front-load’ information about urgency into the first note of their alarm call, so other honeyeaters can respond quickly.
The clever honeyeaters follow this up with more notes to reinforce the message and signal how long to remain hidden.
Australia’s current bushfire crisis could wipe out some of our rarer insect species, according to a group of experts.
Events
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.
Rust fungi are a diverse group of plant pathogens consisting of over 8,000 species in the Basidiomycete order Pucciniales. They parasitise numerous plants of agricultural and ecological importance, such as cereals, legumes, and trees.
Movement is a fundamental part of life for most animals, allowing them to access food or mates and facilitating escape from predators.
The Phylogenomics activity area of the Genomics for Australian Plants consortium aimed to assemble the Australian Angiosperm Tree of Life (AAToL) and to build bioinformatic tools for phylogenomic projects conducted by Australian taxonomists.
Amphibians in Australia and globally face severe threats by the devastating fungal disease chytridiomycosis. Since this disease cannot be eradicated in the wild, solutions are needed that allow amphibians to survive in its presence.