Bogong moths numbers have surged after years of decline, flying evidence of an ancient transfer of vital nutrients from lowlands to the fragile high country.

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Global climatic warming is having profound effects on species’ ecology and acts as a major driver of phenotypic change, but predicting how species will change in their morphology, behaviour and physio...

This PhD will investigate the genetic and ecological mechanisms underp...

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Abstract. When researchers want to test for a direct effect of one attribute on another using interspecific data, they need to account for the confounding

Species distribution models (SDMs) are widely used in conservation; however, their uptake in decision-making can be limited when they fail to reflect …

Abstract. Biotic dispersal between regions is mediated by a suite of geographical, environmental, and biotic factors. Australia and Melanesia—with the latt

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have become a cornerstone of modern conservation genetics, offering affordable, high-throughput genomic data that can directly inform management decisions. This ...

The IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,...

In celebration of Systematic Biology's 75th anniversary, the 2026 volume features a special series of discussions and essays commissioned by the Society’s Legac

Census testing begins next month ahead of the 2026 official headcount. National census are under threat overseas, threatening the collection of quality data.

Nature Ecology & Evolution - A reconstruction of the evolutionary history of passerine body plans over the past ~50 Myr shows rare bursts of phenotypic innovation near the origin of major...

Molecular clock and preservation of early microfossil assemblages suggest that eukaryotes were present and already diverse more than ~1600 million ...

Global patterns in leaf size are linked to climatic trade-offs, so we explore these relationships in a major group of plants, the conifers. Using contemporary phylogenetic methods, we show that conif...

Abstract. Species trees need to be dated for many downstream applications. Some scalable molecular dating methods take a phylogenetic tree with branch leng

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Two senior academics from Macquarie University allege they were targeted for redundancy because of their union activity.

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

Fungi are widespread on our planet and essential for life as we know it, but how did they come about? Their last common ancestor lived hundreds of millions of years ago, but its characteristics, and t...

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…