A single seagrass plant in Shark Bay is around 4,500 years old, covers 200 square kilometres of seabed, and thrives in harsh conditions.
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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.
A new study of how stinging tree venom causes intense agony may help uncover new ways to manage pain.
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.
The current state of our climate shouldn’t be dismissed as a ‘new normal’. The hard truth is many of our ecosystems will not recover from the damage.
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.
Red gums connect the continental fringes of Australia with its arid heart, marching along waterways.
What grows everywhere and looks good doing it? Clematis aristata.
Wander in the dark forest and you might spot the radioactive glow of the ghost fungus.
Spinifex grass is a (slightly ugly) Aussie battler that keeps on giving.
Grass trees are wonderfully odd. They fit no neat definition, and can live up to 600 years.
The Bunya pine is a unique and majestic Australian tree that commands respect.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Winthrop Professor, Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, University of Tasmania
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Research Fellow in Environmental Science, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Climatology, Director, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania
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Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Biology, Flinders University
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Tomas Remenyi is a Friend of The Conversation.
Climate Research Fellow, Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Plant ecologist, Deakin University
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PhD candidate, Deakin University
