A rare shrub needs to burn to avoid extinction
Camera traps show that it’s not missing pollinators that leave an Australian shrub critically endangered.
Tag: Australia
Study in Sydney reveals that preserving pollination is more complex than boosting bees
An Australian team has been studying how to best grow vegetables by experimenting with pak choi in urban gardens. They found that canopy cover and garden richness, rather than pollinator visits are the key factors in improving yield.
Nature in the city: how to protect Perth’s Banksia woodlands?
Concerned scientists have come together to identify key threats and research priorities for a Threatened Ecological Community in Western Australia.
Ants a principal pollinator for a threatened member of the Proteaceae
The plant is impervious to the pollen damage ants usually cause.
Koalas up a gum tree, but having the last laugh..?
Koalas break the local stereotype by being Australians who don’t drink. Or so it was thought.
Recent range expansion in Australian hummock grasses
Bigging-up Bill’s botany
Root system based limitations to agriculture
Mycorrhizal fungi and distribution of specialized orchids
The use of a widespread fungal operational taxonomic unit in P. deformis enables a broad distribution despite high mycorrhizal specificity.
Roots Down Under: A special issue of Annals of Botany
Maintenance of plant species cohesion despite ongoing hybridization
When species cohesion is maintained despite ongoing natural hybridisation.
Sugar versus Auxin: which is dominant?
Spatial and temporal functional changes in alpine summit vegetation are driven by increases in shrubs and graminoids
Money doesn’t grow on trees… (2) [Or, From cuddly koalas to bird poo…]
Could the koala’s diet of eucalyptus result in gold?