Environmental change is ubiquitous in nature, yet understanding its effect on the predictability of evolution remains a challenge. Previous work in microbes has shown that growth and fitness in a part...

The continent is experiencing some of its biggest fires and highest temperatures ever. Residents are fleeing, leaders are struggling to respond and “it will get worse,” one climate expert said.

Organisms vary in their nitrogen and phosphorus content, shaping ecological and evolutionary processes. This study shows that nitrogen deposition is a consistent global factor associated with plant an...

James Cook University (JCU) is creating a brighter future for life in the Tropics and beyond, through education and research that makes a difference locally and globally.  We now have an opportunity a...

The Department of Biosciences is recruiting a permanent teaching fellow in Terrestrial Ecology

Exciting lab news! In September 2025, the lab will move to the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University  in Melbourne, Australia. We will keep a presence at the Gulbenkian Institute for...

Using experimental evolution, we determined the impact of intra- versus interspecific competition on three marine phytoplankton species. We found that the species achieved the same evolutionary outco....

The climate crisis is a multiscale problem that requires transdisciplinary expertise for understanding and engineering climate resilience. Cells are the first responders of the biosphere and yet cell…