A new study unpacks how Victoria’s eucalypt forests have coped with past bushfires – with lessons for the future.
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Research on Tasmania’s large old trees has given designers good reason to reflect on the many things about trees that humans don’t value enough. Here’s the top five.
Street trees often grow in appalling soil, have little root space, are rarely watered and get aggressively trimmed. But this tough species rises to the challenge.
While its large brilliant flowers attracted early horticultural attention, this summertime stunner’s path to being a successful urban tree has not always been easy.
The new opera is a co-production by Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, and the Perth Festival and Brisbane Festival.
Many in the wider community still see sugar gums as risky trees that drop dangerous branches. But there is much to appreciate and admire about Eucalyptus cladocalyx.
Our tallest trees are world champions when it comes to capturing and storing carbon, but they don’t like the heat. Climate change will trigger mass tree deaths in Tasmania. Here’s what can be done.
It’s spring, but many street trees look stressed and sick. Heat and insect attack are arriving early. But our cities are also steadily losing canopy cover.
Victoria’s iconic mountain ash forests are reeling from decades of logging and fire. They’re not recovering on their own.
Australia’s bushfire response relies on foreign satellites, which are not designed to assess our highly flammable eucalypt-clad landscapes.
Eucalyptusdom is a testament to the utilitarian and cultural life of a remarkable tree.
When a plant is stressed, it mobilises its resources and often converts its starch reserves back to sugar. As soon as this happens, the stressed plant becomes sweeter than its healthier neighbours.
These trees are too important to be destroyed in the name of the forestry industry. This is why my husband Steve Pearce and I climb, explore and photograph them.
The nature of our fires is changing rapidly, and the adaptation of our plants and animals won’t be able to keep pace.
Understanding invasive trees’ ecology and history is crucial to developing effective management practices.
This massive red gum has stood for 300 years, as if in defiance of the modern world and the development that has encircled it.
Did you know koalas rub noses to say hello?
There are more than 850 different species of eucalypts in Australia, and possibly many more we don’t know about.
Stockwellia has links back to the epoch before Australia separated into its own continent and was mostly covered in rainforest.
The Instagram-able Eucalyptus salubris, better known as the Gimlet Gum, is well worth getting off the beaten track for.
Top contributors
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor, Forest Measurement and Management, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Director, N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium; Senior Lecturer in Plant Systematics, University of New England
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Director, Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Environment, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lead Engineer, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Washington State University
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Honorary Research Fellow Lepidoptera Systematics, CSIRO
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Research Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Stellenbosch University