Tag: biodiversity

Getting to know Gariwerd
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Getting to know Gariwerd

Back in 2006, a major wildfire burned approximately 85,000 hectares of the Grampians National Park. Lightning sparked the blaze and a burning question – how will the system respond to this large, high intensity fire?...

Melbourne’s Parasites: Biodiversity Unseen
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Melbourne’s Parasites: Biodiversity Unseen

Parasites include a huge proportion of the Earth’s biodiversity, with some categorising more than half of the world’s animal species as parasites. This is an aspect of biodiversity rarely seen and even more rarely thought about. However, this group includes some of the most fascinating animals found in the natural world...