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Sieving the seeds of the future
I did something the other day that I haven’t done for ages. I spent the morning gazing down my old microscope, separating intact from dodgy Acacia seeds. Like other ecologists, I’ve searched for seeds...
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From Ballarat with love: Great biodiversity videos
Nothing on TV this weekend? Then watch a biodiversity video, or perhaps eight of them! Last month the University of Ballarat hosted the excellent Biodiversity Across The Borders conference. Videos of...
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The Big Grass Years
How did the Big Wet years of 2010-2011 affect your local vegetation? Many readers sent in their observations when I asked this question in an earlier blog. Last week I summarized all of the...
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Ageing the mallee: a history in burnt trees
Trees grow short in the mallee. Little rain and poor soils stunt their growth. Over thousands of square kilometers, in semi-arid Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales, many mallee eucalypts...
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100 years of habitat change: an animated fire ecology
Southern Legless Lizards are stylish critters. Big round eyes, happy smile; who couldn’t love ‘em. What they lack in limbs, Delma make up for in energy, excitability, and a dash of fussiness. Southern...
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Burning (for) biodiversity: what is a patch burn mosaic?
Like patch mosaic burning? I bet you know someone who does. The concept – like corridors and connectivity – is popular with land managers and the public, and often adopted with ‘mucho gusto’. The...
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The Patch Burn quiz: 1 question, 6 choices. Which will you vote for?
I didn’t intend to write this blog. I started to write another post on patch mosaic burning. But I got stumped by a simple question. I realized that the blog I intended to write would founder if...
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Helping nature adapt to a new climate
“Victoria is blessed with an amazing environment: from the alps to the mallee, tall forests to deep oceans, from rocky hills to fertile farmlands, wilderness, and urban parks. Nature at its best. These...
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