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Weed or feed? New pasture plants intensify invasive species risk | Jane Catford's Research
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Jane Catford's Research. Plant ecology, biological invasions and community assembly. How plant traits determine where native and alien species occur along rivers. Moving to the University of Southampton →. New pasture plants intensify invasive species risk. November 4, 2014. Pasture plants gone rogue: Phalaris is highly invasive but new varieties are still being developed. But all is not lost! As described in a new. Led by Don Driscoll. There are various ways in which this problem can be fixed. Centre fo...
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Tropical rainforest trees and their diverse water transport strategies | David Tng
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Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants. The tree lotus from heaven – Gustavia superba. How to be a superweed →. Tropical rainforest trees and their diverse water transport strategies. June 28, 2015. In the past year I have been helping a PhD student Deborah Apgaua with an axillary study on these trees. Deborah measured baseline data on the leaf and wood traits of these species with the aim to determine how these feature relate to their water transport strategies. One aspect of this...
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David Tng | Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants | Page 2
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Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants. Newer posts →. How to be a superweed. October 10, 2015. When ecologists study the biological traits of plants they often think in terms of trade-offs. An investment in one trait means less resources to invest in another. So as an ecologist, I must say I feel rather privileged to find a species that appears to have broken all the cardinal rules of trade-offs. This distinction belongs uniquely to the Strawberry Guava (. What of the wood? The Le...
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Me | David Tng
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Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants. I am here to beckon you to join me in exploring the magical world of plants. For me there is only the travelling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length. And there I travel, looking, looking, breathlessly. This quote by Don Juan Matus in. A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Sums up the driving motivation of all my endeavors. I lead a double life. In part...
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The tree lotus from heaven – Gustavia superba | David Tng
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Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants. A Western Australia botany taster. Tropical rainforest trees and their diverse water transport strategies →. The tree lotus from heaven – Gustavia superba. March 22, 2015. Gustavia superba. Late 19th century illustration. Biologia Centrali-Americana vol. 5 Botany. Plates tabl. 22. When not in flower, this shrub. The flowers bears an uncanny resemble to the true lotus (. In its natural habitat,. Is an abundant component in re-growing secondary...
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A Western Australia botany taster | David Tng
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Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants. Plants and people in Bali – a quick glance. The tree lotus from heaven – Gustavia superba →. A Western Australia botany taster. January 4, 2015. Eucalypts are generally iconic of Australia, and in King’s Park grows a stately 60 year-old eucalypt planted by Queen Elizabeth III in 1954, which is affectionately named the Queen’s Tree. This tree is a River Red Gum (. The Queen’s Tree, a stately specimen of the River Red Gum (. The Tuart Tree (.
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ESA Hot Topic: Feral horses in Australia – Dale Nimmo's Research
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Dale Nimmo's Research. Research on fire, drought and flooding rains. ESA Hot Topic: Feral horses in Australia. October 12, 2014. November 14, 2014. I recently contributed to the Ecological Society of Australia’s. New ‘Hot Topics’. A forum for scientists to summarise important ecological issues in a brief format suitable for a broad audience. There have been some excellent Hot Topics so far, synthesising the science underpinning controversial issues, such as the decline of the dingo. In the high country.
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Media - Annabel Smith's Research
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How do macaws move across the Amazon? A 3-minute documentary by George Olah. Featuring an international, multi-disciplinary group of collaborators. Edited by. Attila Dávid Molnár, FilmJungle. From our 2016 Landscape Ecology. 11-year ANU study shows how hazard reduction burns harm wildlife. Rom our 2016 Proceedings B. Study calls for change in controlled burning to protect vulnerable species. From our 2016 Proceedings B. Threatened lizards colonise experimental phase of restoration project.
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David Tng | David Tng
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Plant whisperer, beckoning you to explore the magic of plants. Author Archives: David Tng. I am David Tng. Ecology and wood anatomy of tropical rainforest plants. October 19, 2016. Tropical rainforests have been an obsession for me for as long as I can remember, and in particular how tropical rainforest plants have found solutions to living in a common environment. Just like people having a diversity of professions to … Continue reading →. Dry forest succession in Brazil – still much to learn. I have hea...