Research Institute for the Environment & Livelihoods 
Ecology in the tropical Top End of the Northern Territory

Thematic summaries of recent literature about natural history and ecology

These summaries and listings of recent scientific literature are compiled monthly by Don Franklin, a Research Fellow with the School, for the newsletter Nature Territory (http://sites.google.com/site/ntfieldnaturalists/home/newsletters/).  They are intended for interested laypersons and researchers outside their area of specialty.  They are reproduced here with the permission of the Northern Territory Field Naturalists Club Inc. (http://ntfieldnaturalists.org.au/)

The summaries are arranged around the following themes:

  • plants & vegetation
  • mammals
  • birds
  • reptiles & amphibians
  • insects & other invertebrates
  • freshwater systems
  • marine & coastal
  • conservation, land management and fire
  • geology, soils & landforms
  • climate & weather
  • general and miscellaneous

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