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ÆKOS has answers for age-old question of what’s in a name

Flower of the Hibbertia rufa group (Photo by Ian Sutton) Have you ever tried searching for a species by its scientific name on an online ...
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Applications invited for ACEAS funding

For those who have a burning question that links ecosystem science to management and can pull together a group of people to look at the ...
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Plants point to adaptive trends

The South Australian donkey orchid (Diuris orientis). TREND researcher FranMacGillivray has discovered that this species now flowers 16 days earlier thanit did 98 years ago. ...
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Networked approach delivers for Australian ecosystem research

TERN is working to transform the Australian ecosystem science community from one in which effort was frequently fragmented, inefficient and short-term to one that is ...
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Infrastructure and unique biodiversity attract Fulbright Fellow to Australia

A individual of the ant species Polyrhachis macropus, one of many Australian antspecies that Israel will study during his Fulbright Fellowship (Photo courtesyof Dr Alan ...
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Understanding ecosystem dynamics over the long term

Ecological studies offer an effective means for building a knowledge base that can be used to inform biodiversity management and conservation. This is a motivation ...
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Boom and bust for biodiversity in arid Australia

Researchers measuring a long-haired rat (Rattus villosissimus) as part of studies at the Desert Ecology Plot Network (Photo courtesy of Glenda Wardle) Australia’s arid zone is a ...
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AERA lecturer looks at loss of native fauna

An ecologist and conservation biologist who specialises in the study of mammals will give this year’s Australian Ecology Research Award (AERA) lecture. The award is ...
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ÆKOS datasets break new ground for understanding nature

Location of quadrats in the Ravensthorpe Floristic Survey, south-westernWestern Australia (© WA Department of Environment and Conservation) The online database of the Australian Ecological Knowledge ...
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Many hands make light work at Robson Creek

Professor Stuart Phinn, TERN Associate Science Director, in the Robson Creeksite on the front page of The Cairns Post on 13 September 2012 Over two weeks ...
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