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News

Thursday, 07 Nov 2019

Red deer on a Scottish island are providing scientists with some of the first evidence that wild animals are evolving to give birth earlier in the year as the climate warms.

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Bronze Ant-blue
Thursday, 24 Oct 2019

A first-of-its-kind citizen science project will put amateur butterfly-watchers at the forefront of research and conservation for the insect.

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Fairy wren
Tuesday, 15 Oct 2019

Warmer temperatures linked to climate change are having a big impact on the breeding habits of one of Australia’s most recognisable bird species, according to researchers at The Australian National University (ANU).

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Female superb fairy-wren. Photo Andrew Haysom
Tuesday, 01 Oct 2019

Five years ago, an ANU biologist proved that most female songbirds sing, but it’s a finding that many people are struggling to accept.

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Thursday, 01 Aug 2019

Learn more about forest ecologist Helen Bothwell.

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Thursday, 01 Aug 2019

New research from Australia and Finland could help explain one of nature's strangest quirks - why some animals forego mating to help other animals procreate.

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Events

15 Oct 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Ecological stressors such as predation can shape ecosystems, driving prey population and community dynamics through indirect, non-consumptive effects that may cascade across generations through parental effects.

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8 Oct 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Biphasic life cycles with alternating diploid and haploid gametic phases are a traits shared by all sexually reproducing eukaryotes.

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1 Oct 2020 | 10 - 11am

Scott Edwards is an acclaimed evolutionary biologist specialising in molecular evolution in birds. 

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25 Sep 2020 | 4 - 5pm

While we know many things about E. coli under laboratory conditions, relatively little is known about the ecology of this bacterium in the environment.

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24 Sep 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Each cell division comes with the risk of mutations that could eventually lead to cancer. How do organisms attain their mature sizes without succumbing to cancer? What happens when large-bodied lineages shrink in size? Can cancer risk constrain body size evolution?

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18 Sep 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Iteroparous animals often express dramatic variation in life-history traits over the course of a lifetime.

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