research Less affluent countries more prone to damage caused by biological invasions despite lower trade volume 2 Apr 202430 Mar 2024 Non-native species introduced mainly via increasing trade of goods and services have huge economic, health, and environmental costs. These ‘biological invasions’ involve the intentional or unintentional transport and release of…
research Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research 12 Mar 202412 Mar 2024 Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the…
research Quantifying how climate change degrades children’s health 23 Feb 202426 Feb 2024 Increased numbers of preterm births, higher incidence of respiratory disease and death, and more children in hospitals are some of the stark health outcomes the world is facing from the…
concepts… New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: more Australian species than ever are struggling to survive 21 Feb 2024 Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world’s species of animals, birds, plants and insects – between 600,000 and 700,000 species. More than 80% of Australian plants and…
research People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea 21 Dec 202321 Dec 2023 For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. This vast, habitable realm covered nearly 390,000 square…
research… Intricate dance of nature — predicting extinction risks in terrestrial ecosystems 30 Jun 2023 Have you ever watched a nature documentary and marvelled at the intricate dance of life unfolding on screen? From the smallest insect to the largest predator, every creature plays a…
research Young red kangaroos grow up quickly where hungry dingoes lurk 2 Jun 2023 We've just published a new paper showing that young red kangaroos (Osphranter rufus) protected by the dingo-proof fence take more time to grow up than their counterparts on the other…
careers… New job posting: Research Fellow in Eco-Epidemiology & Human Ecology 11 May 202311 May 2023 We are currently seeking a Research Fellow in Eco-epidemiology/Human Ecology to join our team at Flinders University. The successful candidate will develop spatial eco-epidemiological models for the populations of Indigenous…
research Children born today will see literally thousands of animals disappear in their lifetime, as global food webs collapse 19 Dec 202218 Dec 2022 Frida Lannerstrom/Unsplash, CC BY Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Giovanni Strona, University of Helsinki Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know…
research Warming oceans might force New Zealand’s sperm and blue whales to shift to cooler southern waters 19 Aug 202219 Aug 2022 Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University; Karen A Stockin, Massey University, and Katharina J. Peters, University of Canterbury The world’s oceans are absorbing more than 90% of the excess heat and energy…
careers… Wondering if you should apply for a DECRA? 7 Feb 20227 Feb 2022 Do you love doing job applications, but wish they were longer and more involved? If so, applying for an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) should…
research Extinct megafauna prone to ancient hunger games 14 Dec 202114 Dec 2021 I'm very chuffed today to signal the publication of what I think is one of the most important contributions to the persistent conundrum surrounding the downfall of Australia's megafauna many…
research Animating models of ecological change 6 Dec 2021 Flinders University Global Ecology postdoc, Dr Farzin Shabani, recently created this astonishing video not only about the results of his models predicting vegetation change in northern Australia as a function…
policy… An eye on the past: a view to the future 29 Nov 2021 originally published in Brave Minds, Flinders University's research-news publication (text by David Sly) Clues to understanding human interactions with global ecosystems already exist. The challenge is to read them more…
careers… PhD opportunity in control strategies of feral deer 1 Oct 2021 In collaboration with Biosecurity South Australia, the Global Ecology Lab at Flinders University is happy to announce a wonderful new PhD opportunity in feral deer control strategies for South Australia.…
research Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year — and it will get worse 2 Aug 20212 Aug 2021 AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Andrew Hoskins, CSIRO This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article. Shamefully, Australia has…
research Mapping the ‘super-highways’ the First Australians used to cross the ancient land 4 May 2021 Author provided/The Conversation, Author provided There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands of years ago, but evidence is scarce. Few archaeological…
research Population of First Australians grew to millions, much more than previous estimates 30 Apr 2021 Shutterstock/Jason Benz Bennee We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul — the giant landmass that connected New Guinea, Australia and…
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