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Platypus Month kicks off with research updates and a new team of conservation researchers
Tamielle Brunt completed her PhD in July 2023 and continues her excellent research on platypus with our growing team of students. Read Tam's article about her work with Platypus Watch! |
Cultural Burning and Prescribed Burning: What The Science Tells Us
In 2023, I contributed (01.29.12) to this discussion on Yuggera country about Indigenous and western science perspectives on fire and nature. It was a great evening, organised by Boonah & District Landcare. |
Protecting Platypus in South-East Queensland
In this lovely video by LERAKO, my PhD student Tamielle Brunt explains how and why she studies platypus conservation in southeast Queensland. |
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My PhD Student Tamielle Brunt did a talk on her very charismatic study species - the platypus at TEDx UQ in 2022.
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Humans are changing fire patterns, and it’s threatening 4,403 species with extinction
A summary of our 2020 Science paper published in The Conversation |
International Pest Control (!) reports on with PLANTPOPNET research: Rule Breaking Plants may be Climate Change Survivors
From our 2020 PNAS paper |
The Loh Down on Science takes an unusual angle on our 2020 PNAS paper.
And demonstrates why scientists use latin names, not common names... I.e. we didn't study cooking bananas! |
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Cosmos Science Magazine reports on our invasive species genomics work in Plantago lanceolata - the first paper from PLANTPOPNET.
From our 2020 PNAS paper |
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Beetles, fire and outback adventures
Beetles are an incredibly diverse group of animals with complex responses to fire. This short clip introduces our research on beetles and fire. From our 2019 Ecological Entomology paper |
RTÉ News Six One 2019
Commenting on fires that were burning throughout the Amazon rainforest in August 2019. https://youtu.be/l-6WaBdMK8c |
SOAPBOX Science Ireland 2019
Fires are becoming more common with climate change... but we don't know how plants will adapt. I jumped on my soapbox in June 2019 to tell Dublin city about my research on this problem. http://soapboxscience.org/ |
PROBE 2018
Evey year, scientists in Trinity College Dublin come out of their labs to explain their researcher to the general public for EU Researchers Night. In 2018, I exhibited my research about plants in an increasingly flammable world. |
CEED: Where are they now?
How did I come to work on invasive plant genetics and fire ecology with Prof. Yvonne Buckley at Trinity College Dublin? A 2018 interview reflecting on the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions. |
Mowing for Biodiversity
A 3-minute movie showing how mowing can reduce biomass and maintain grassland biodiversity, produced by Wildlife Messengers. From our 2018 Applied Vegetation Science paper |
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How do macaws move across the Amazon?
A 3-minute documentary by George Olah, featuring an international, multi-disciplinary group of collaborators. Edited by Attila Dávid Molnár, FilmJungle. From our 2017 Landscape Ecology paper |
Canberra Times: 11-year ANU study shows how hazard reduction burns harm wildlife
From our 2016 Proceedings B paper |
ABC News: Study calls for change in controlled burning to protect vulnerable species
From our 2016 Proceedings B paper |
ESA Bulletin: Threatened lizards colonise experimental phase of restoration project
Annabel Smith & Richard Milner From the Grassland Restoration Project |
DECISION POINT: Movement Science & Biodiversity Policy
Pia Lentini, Annabel Smith and Philip Barton From our 2015 Environmental Management paper |
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DECISION POINT: Are prescribed burning targets appropriate for reptile conservation?
From our 2013 Journal of Applied Ecology paper |
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Eyre Peninsula Tribune: How do fires affect animal populations?
From our 2012 Biodiversity & Conservation paper |