Natural Wonder – Why are leaves so variable?
Have you ever considered why leaves are so large in the tropics, yet so long and thin in arid ares?
So let’s look at the main drivers of leaf shape.
Category: Monitoring biodiversity
Avoiding another Great Dying – learnings from the world’s greatest extinction event
Planet Earth, a quarter of an aeon ago. A series of volcanic eruptions in what we now call Siberia has
How do we quantify Australia’s ecosystem services?
We need to develop the measures and metrics used to track the state, condition and trajectory of our ecosystem services if we are to value and ultimately restore them.
Towards a global picture of plant ecological function
We’ve all noticed that vegetation and the size and shape of plants and their leaves changes as we move across different climates, but do these patterns hold true across the globe?
Publish but don’t perish
Highly collectable species, especially those that are rare and threatened, can be put at risk from poaching if information describing
Why is leaf shape important to plants?
Plants have different shaped leaves to cope with different environmental conditions. But many plants change the shape of their leaves
Forests hiding in plain sight
A new global analysis looking at the distribution of forests and woodlands has ‘found’ 467 million hectares of previously unreported
Secrets of Australia’s rangelands uncovered
The secrets of the understudied Australian rangelands, which make up 81% of the continent, have been exposed in new scientific work.
Devil’s Gardens and demon gardeners
Imagine you are hacking your way through the Amazon rainforest and you venture across a grove completely devoid of ground
Cryptic but important genetic differences within species
As Charles Darwin noted, the physical differences between individuals of a species are important for their future survival and success (or not).
Biodiversity Revolution 