When people first came to Australia 65,000 years ago, the Earth was in an ice age. Then the seas rose, drought and floods came – and still people endured.
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Australia has half as much forest as it did before colonisation. Restoring it can be hugely expensive. But new approaches can help
When species naturally hybridise, the influx of genes can reduce their risk of extinction as climate change shrinks their habitats.
A 50-year experiment shows warmer, ‘thirstier’ air may have cut the lifespan of Queensland’s tropical trees in half since the 1980s.
Australians should see the rainforest as a cultural landscape – one that has been managed and maintained by people, rather than just a relic unchanged since the dinosaurs.
In a few idyllic parts of Queensland grows the idiot fruit, a tall tree with intricate flowers and some of the largest seeds in Australia.
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Postdoctoral Fellow Molecular Ecology Lab, Flinders University
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Honorary Research Associate, La Trobe University
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Djabugay Aboriginal Corporation, Kuranda, Indigenous Knowledge
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Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University
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Ethnobotanist, James Cook University
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Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Professor, Plant Physiology, James Cook University
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Adjunct Researcher, College of Arts, Society and Education, James Cook University
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Professor, James Cook University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University
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Laboratory and Technical Support Officer, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University
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Acting CEO, North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, Indigenous Knowledge
