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Cities around Australia have plans to increase their green space, but new research shows not all green spaces are equal. Good tree cover is better than grassed areas for residents' mental health.
Weeds are serious problems on sports fields, parks and other sites covered with turfgrass. A new strategy uses mechanical force to kill them instead of chemical herbicides.
Pollen counts focus on the amount of grains in the air, but it could be the species that are more important.
Keeping urban habitats such as parks neat and tidy by removing dead wood and leaves is driving the species which live there to extinction.
Spinifex grass is a (slightly ugly) Aussie battler that keeps on giving.
Unlocking the genetic code of certain grasses could help allergy sufferers.
As summer rolls on once again you're despairing at a brown lawn. Perhaps you should embrace a shabbier backyard.
Australia may have reputation for vast areas of wilderness, but in reality the continent's ecosystems have been chopped and diced. Now we need to protect what's left.
Weeds cost Australian farmers around A$4 billion every year — and they are likely to do a similar amount of damage to the environment. In a new global survey published this week in Proceedings of the National…
An algae gene has enabled plants to store lipids and vegetable oil in its leaves. Unlike seeds, plants do not typically store…
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Professor in Molecular Ecology, Bangor University
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Postdoctoral Research Officer, Bangor University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Decision Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow in Plant Ecology, University of Melbourne
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Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, RMIT University
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Professor of Population Health and Environmental Data Science, NHMRC Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer in Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology, Newcastle University
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Postdoctoral associate in Ecology, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Turfgrass and Soil Sciences, University of Connecticut
