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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Seminar: Double Header

This week’s Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Seminar will be held this Friday 9th February at 12:10-13:00 in the Benham lecture theatre. The speakers will be: Marlene Taja-Moreno (CCSP) Expanding the frontiers of epigenome analysis for studying human adaptation to environmental stressors (Supervisors: Drs Bastian Llamas, Jimmy Breen, Professor Alan Cooper) Matthew Williams (CCSP) Exploring the […]

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How can we assess human impacts on coastal ecosystems?

There are many ways in which human activities can negatively affect marine environments, as we discuss in our new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. We use the oceans to support industry (e.g. fishing, shipping, tourism) as well as for recreation (e.g. boating, fishing, diving, beach activities). The things we do on land can […]

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Prof Nagelkerken speaks to Radio Adelaide about impacts of Climate change on Ecosystems

Prof Ivan Nagelkerken spoke to Radio Adelaide this week about a new paper he is an author on: the publication titled Climate change could drive marine food web collapse through altered trophic flows and cyanobacterial proliferation. This publication is an all Environment Institute effort led by Hadayet Ullah, with Silvan Goldenberg and Damien Fordham. The effect […]

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Climate change drives collapse in marine food webs

A new study has found that levels of commercial fish stocks could be harmed as rising sea temperatures affect their source of food. University of Adelaide scientists have demonstrated how climate change can drive the collapse of marine “food webs”. To be published on 10 January in the open access journal PLOS Biology, the study’s […]

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Top Altmetric Publications of 2017 from Environment Institute Researchers

Presenting the top Altmetric scores from Environment Institute Researchers: (only EI researchers have been listed here as authors, for full author list please follow t Weyrich, L.S., Duchene, S., Soubrier, J., Arriola, L., Llamas, B., Breen, J.,Haak, W, Cooper, A, Caramelli, D., Dresely, V. and Farrell, M., 2017. Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from […]

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Beyond the Elevator Pitch: How do we engage people in Science?

This is a guest post by PhD candidate Jenna Crowe-Riddell (@jcroweriddell), who participated in the Science Communication competition Fresh Science. Imagine you’re standing on a stage holding a lit party sparkler and you’ve been told to explain your research in the time it takes for the sparkler to go out. Oh, and your family, friends and supervisor […]

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Why is it important to understand how skulls deal with stress generated from bite force

Dr Marc Jones writes a guest post on his latest paper on bite force in reptiles Among animals there is great variation in skull shape, and this is related to a variety of environmental factors such as diet and life style. The shape of an animal’s skull is closely linked to its function: the skull […]

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Naracoorte Linkage Grant already giving back to community ahead of Jan start

The Naracoorte Caves Local Business Open Night was held late last month to bring together local businesses with representatives from the Naracoorte Lucindale Council, and the Naracoorte Caves. This initiative was hosted by in the Cave National Park, which is a World Heritage Site to provide an opportunity for the local community to stay in touch with […]

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Seminar: Model-based design of adaptive pathways for framing climate adaption

Kan Kwakkel is an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology. His research focusses on model based approaches to support decision making in complex uncertain systems. He is an expert in many objective robust decision making, and the use of adaptation pathways. He has applied his research in a variety of domains including fresh water […]

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Small Mammals could hold some of the secrets of Naracoorte’s ancient ecosystems

Jessie Treloar is a PhD Student studying small mammal fossils in the Naracoorte caves, and took some time out to write a guest post for us. Deep below the ground near the town of Naracoorte lies ancient tombs of hundreds of thousands of animals in vast and naturally beautiful caves within the Naracoorte Caves World […]

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