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Three quarters of WA’s Stirling Ranges national park now experience fire cycles twice as frequent as species recovery rates.
The plant takes its name from the colonial botanist Joseph Banks, but the coastal banksia’s history goes way back to ancient times.
Restoring former prairies that have been plowed under for farming delivers land, wildlife and climate benefits. But a new study finds that the weather plays a surprising role.
By all means, rescue an injured koala. But by pulling out weeds after the fires, you could also help rescue a whole ecosystem.
Mayflies and stone flies are extremely vulnerable to water pollution, which has implications for the larger food chain.
When ecosystems aren’t able to repair themselves, it’s up to us to intervene.
Huge gum tree plantations shelter big koala populations, but when the trees are cut down the koalas flood into nearby habitat.
Despite the optimistic name, the showy everlasting only has three wild populations in Australia. But a West Australian public school has stepped up to help grow vital new seeds.
A startling phenomenon occurs after a fire tears through a landscape. So what is it in bushfires that gives plants this kiss of life?
In an often-muted bush landscape, the deep crimson of the waratah stands out like a shout.
The blotched butterfly orchid (Sarcochilus weinthalii) looks fairly unremarkable when it’s not flowering, generally resembling the far more common orange blossom orchid. But when it flowers, it is exquisite…
Albany pitcher plants are more closely related to cabbages and roses than any other carnivorous plant.
Waterwheel plants use snap up mosquito larvae, tiny fish and even tadpoles in freshwater wetlands around the world – including remote parts of north Australia.
White cedar grows across Asia and Australia, as a hardy and resilient deciduous.
Eucalypts have been in Australia for 45 million years. But hundreds of species appeared more recently than previously thought.
What grows everywhere and looks good doing it? Clematis aristata.
The moss that grows in pavement cracks and on the edge of basketball courts in every town and city in Australia has a secret superpower.
During its first few decades, this tree is the runt of the rainforest. And then it starts its growth spurt, and can go on to live for millennia.
Firewood banksia don’t just survive in Western Australia’s sandy plains, they thrive, showing off with vibrant, pink-red flower spikes.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Biology, Baldwin Wallace University
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, University of Southern Queensland
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Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Future Fire Risk Analyst, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Research botanist at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia/Environment Institute, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Assoc. Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior research fellow, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Natural History, La Trobe University
