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Ecologist wins Distinguished Alumni Award for research on invasive alien species across three continents

Dr Pablo García-Díaz, collaborator with Assoc Professor 's Invasion Science and Wildlife Ecology Group and previous ³ÉÈË´óƬ PhD student, has been awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions in recognition of the impact his research on invasive alien species has had in Australia, Europe and South America.

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Changes in marine ecosystems going undetected

Existing ways of calculating biodiversity dynamics are not very effective in detecting wholesale species community change due to the effects of ocean acidification.

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Study finds famous Australian caves are up to 500,000 years older than we thought - and it could help explain a megafaunaÌýmystery

South Australia’s is one of the world’s best fossil sites, containing a record spanning more than half a million years. Among the remains preserved in layers of sand are the bones of many iconic Australian megafauna species that became extinct between 48,000 and 37,000 years ago.

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We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000-year-old sediment in Sydney lakes

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Upcoming Three Minute Thesis final

Good luck toÌýÌýPhD CandidateÌýIsobel Hume, who is a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finalist and will present her research on 'Urban Food Security' at tomorrow's 3MT Final!

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Tropical and desert grasses may migrate further south

The maximum summer temperature and the amount of rainfall in summer are the two climate factors that determine the type of native grass that grows in a region, Australian researchers have found in a recent study.

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Housing design for older South Aussies under the spotlight

³ÉÈË´óƬ researchers will investigate the quality of housing for older South Australians to improve their wellbeing and resilience to extreme weather.

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Protecting Adelaide's Urban Trees

Growing Adelaide’s tree canopy has been in the , andÌý have revealed that we are losing trees at an alarming rate, with potentially devastating consequences for the liveability of our city. To support a review of South Australia's tree protection laws, the South Australian Attorney General's Department, Planning and Land Use Services, commissioned the Environment Institute to investigate urban tree protection laws across Australia, and make recommendations as to how South Australia's laws could be strengthened to save more trees.

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SEMINAR: Assessing the Diverse Values of Nature - Professor Christopher Raymond

Recently, The ³ÉÈË´óƬ's Environment Institute,ÌýInstitute for Sustainability, Energy and Resources (ISER) and School of Social Sciences jointly hosted a seminar by Professor Christopher Raymond of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science: 'Conceptualising and Assessing the Diverse Values of Nature'.

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Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, Australia’s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back

Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early –Ìýand largely underwater –Ìýthe destruction of these reefs was all but forgotten.

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