When a plant is stressed, it mobilises its resources and often converts its starch reserves back to sugar. As soon as this happens, the stressed plant becomes sweeter than its healthier neighbours.
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Three quarters of WA’s Stirling Ranges national park now experience fire cycles twice as frequent as species recovery rates.
In NSW, honeybees are listed as a key threatening process to biodiversity.
Red gums connect the continental fringes of Australia with its arid heart, marching along waterways.
With unusual inflated winged fruits growing on “sickness country”, the tree flummoxed local botanists who had not seen anything like it before.
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