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February 26, 2024

Secrets in the canopy: scientists discover 8 striking new bee species in the Pacific

James B. Dorey, University of Wollongong; Amy-Marie Gilpin, Western Sydney University, and Olivia Davies, Flinders University

By lifting their gaze to the treetops rather than poking around on the ground, researchers discovered eight new species of masked bees.

August 3, 2016

Joanne Macdonald, University of the Sunshine Coast and Davis Fernandes Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Zika had already reached 46,000 probable cases by the end of May 2016 and is transmitted by the same mosquito species as dengue and Chikungunya.

November 14, 2013

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-11/pp-ibi111313.php

Rising sea levels caused by global warming are putting island habitats that hold 20% of the world’s biodiversity at risk…

Joanne Macdonald
Associate Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast
Davis Fernandes Ferreira
Professor of Microbiology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Amy-Marie Gilpin
Lecturer in Invertebrate Ecology, Western Sydney University
James B. Dorey
Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong
Olivia Davies
Flinders University