We may be the land of drought and flooding rains, but we know that climate change will only exacerbate these extremes.
Stefan Caddy Retalic talks about South Australia’s ecology and the many ways our ecosystems may change with various climate change scenarios. He has created a tool to measure the extent to which various ecosystems respond to climate change.
Watch his seminar to explore further
The ‘threatened flora translocation workshop’ aims to improve the conservation of South Australia’s threatened plant species by inspiring and equipping practitioners to use best practice when establishing or maintaining self-sustaining populations through translocation. Date: Friday 3rd May 2019 Time: 9.00 – 4.00 pm, catered Venue: Ingkarni Wardli Conference Room, Level 7, Ingkarni Wardli Building, University of […]
Water is one of the most precious resources and water resource systems are in need of informed management. However, many water resource systems today rely on historical assumptions about inflows, assumptions that are flawed due to our changing climate. Therefore, new approaches to optimising policies for water systems are needed. The challenge of optimising our water systems has been […]
Written by Mr Stefan Caddy-Retalic and Professor Andrew Lowe It might surprise you to learn that the idea of a “species” is one of the more ambiguous concepts in science. Originally, “species” (meaning “kind” or “sort” in Latin) was used to refer to organisms that looked different and, for more than 250 years, physical differences were used […]
A new paper written by Environment Institute members, Craig Costion, Hugh Cross and Andrew Lowe as well as Andrew Ford from CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences and Darren Crayn and Mark Harrington from the Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, has recently been published in PLoS One. The paper titled ‘Plant DNA Barcodes Can Accurately Estimate Species […]
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