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Trees and greenspace can drive down urban temperatures – but they must be able to draw water from the soil to achieve these massive cooling effects.
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.
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.
Three quarters of WA’s Stirling Ranges national park now experience fire cycles twice as frequent as species recovery rates.
In NSW, honeybees are listed as a key threatening process to biodiversity.
Red gums connect the continental fringes of Australia with its arid heart, marching along waterways.
With unusual inflated winged fruits growing on “sickness country”, the tree flummoxed local botanists who had not seen anything like it before.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Research Fellow, Adelaide University
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Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Professor in Natural Resource Economics, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor in Entomology, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University