The continent of Australia is teeming with diverse life, both in flora and fauna. It boasts some of the most unique and spectacular plant species, important to the native ecology. Australian plants ...

1. A fire history (1980 to the present) developed for Kakadu National Park, derived mostly from manual interpretation of LANDSAT MultiSpectral Scanner (MSS) imagery, was used as the temporal basis for ...

Symphy Huggins has always loved the outdoors, but it's only been in the past five years she's turned her hand to gardening. Volunteers at a Hobart native plant nursery have noticed a surge in ...

CD-ROM entitled: Australia's native vegetation MVG 2007. From the label: "This disk of GIS data and Major Vegetation Group Facts Sheets has been prepared to accompany the booklet Australia's native ...

New research has uncovered the history of when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first expanded across the continent. "C 4 plants evolved to be able to ...

A decision by one of Australia’s biggest beef producers to end broadscale clearing of remnant native vegetation on the company’s 18 cattle properties sets a new benchmark for sustainable land ...

Andrew Rozefelds receives funding from the Herman Slade Foundation and Churchill Trust, Australia. The Australian continent is now geologically stable. But volcanic rocks, lava flows and a ...

Ayesha Tulloch receives funding from the Australian Research Council. David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Government of Victoria and the Australian Government ...

SYDNEY, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Australian researchers have developed a remote sensing system that maps Antarctica's mosses and lichens, its only vegetation and ecosystem health indicators, more ...