Without urgent action, a species that helps hold rainforests together might be gone for good.
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In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.
Replanting habitat corridors offers wildlife a way to move between isolated habitat – and much of this is done by volunteer groups.
When people first came to Australia 65,000 years ago, the Earth was in an ice age. Then the seas rose, drought and floods came – and still people endured.
Australia has half as much forest as it did before colonisation. Restoring it can be hugely expensive. But new approaches can help
When species naturally hybridise, the influx of genes can reduce their risk of extinction as climate change shrinks their habitats.
A 50-year experiment shows warmer, ‘thirstier’ air may have cut the lifespan of Queensland’s tropical trees in half since the 1980s.
Australians should see the rainforest as a cultural landscape – one that has been managed and maintained by people, rather than just a relic unchanged since the dinosaurs.
In a few idyllic parts of Queensland grows the idiot fruit, a tall tree with intricate flowers and some of the largest seeds in Australia.
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Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University
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Professor, Plant Physiology, James Cook University
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Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University
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Djabugay Aboriginal Corporation, Kuranda, Indigenous Knowledge
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Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Laboratory and Technical Support Officer, Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University
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Professor, James Cook University
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