Urban Ecosystems - Urban catchments provide valuable habitat for threatened species and host unique biodiversity that supports critical ecosystem services. Persistent anthropogenic stressors...

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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This Bioblitz aims to pull together communities of ocean lovers to get down and dirty to help scientists gather data about their local ecosystems.

Institution: University of Sydney & Australian Museum Research InstituteLocation: Sydney, NSW AustraliaStart date: July 2025 or February 2026Supervisors:

Environmental DNA (eDNA) and RNA (eRNA) metabarcoding has become a popular tool for assessing biodiversity from environmental samples, but inconsistent documentation of methods, data and metadata make...

Join three marine biologists for an exciting evening of presentations. Environmental testing across NSW, the interaction between coastal kelp and greenhouse gases, and sharky bony fishy insights will ...

Citizen or community science (CS) projects in the marine environment rarely consider carbon footprint and sustainability. In this case study, we assessed the effectiveness of ten CS methods used by to...

Failure to fund education in taxonomy could derail efforts to support conservation in low- and middle-income countries.

We demonstrate that, under certain circumstances, stratified sampling requires fewer samples than random sampling to detect 90% and 95% of species in 12 temperate freshwater lakes using the 12S MiFis...