A world-renowned Charles Darwin specialist has returned to the Territory this month to deliver two seminars on the life of the pioneering naturalist and evolutionary scientist and to launch his new book “Darwin & His Children: His Other Legacy”. The first lecture will be held on Wednesday, 12 February.
False killer whales off the Northern Australia coast need their conservation status reviewed because of similarities they share with groups from Hawaii listed as Endangered in the USA, a Charles Darwin University (CDU) researcher says.
We use a combination of methods to better understand water and carbon cycles in tropical ecosystems – tropical savannas, rangelands, vine forests, wetlands, pasture and croplands, through to mangroves and peat forests. This involves linking ecological, physiological, micro-meteorological (eddy covariance), stable isotopes, remote sensing and modelling approaches to examine how our landscapes respond to environmental change, be it human induced or climate change