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Curtin Environment & Agriculture

Locality: Bentley, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9266 7041

Address: Kent Street 6102 Bentley, WA, Australia

Website: https://scieng.curtin.edu.au/schools/school-of-molecular-and-life-sciences

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25.01.2022 Congratulations to Kingsley Dixon on being made a Fellow of the Academy of Technology and Engineering

22.01.2022 New paper out! As part of her PhD on conservation of spiny-tailed skinks Holly Bradley has been reviewing the use of mitigation translocation as a management t...ool. Mitigation translocation (MT) happens with the aim of relocating individuals threatened with destruction. MT is now more frequent than Conservation Translocation (CT) which has longer term aims and is often around moving individuals from populations that are not going to be destroyed. The increase of MT as opposed to CT is likely to reflect limited conservation funding as opposed to mitigation requirements for industry. An assessment of the effectiveness of mitigation translocations through a quantitative review of the literature indicated that mitigation translocations are not yet achieving their potential as an effective applied science, with most translocations focused predominantly on population establishment level questions. Less focus is placed upon metapopulation and ecosystem outcomes despite these factors being more likely to influence ultimate success. Only a handful of studies included comparison of different management techniques to facilitate practitioners selecting the most effective management actions for the future. The link to the paper for more details is: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com//abs/10./cobi.13667 See more

22.01.2022 In case you forget to start your parking session...

20.01.2022 Prof Mark Chase is one of our School’s Visiting Professor’s working directly with staff and students in Ecology/CMSR (currently from a far given the current travel restrictions)

18.01.2022 Sophie Cross has had a paper published :)

18.01.2022 Kingsley Dixon has been involved in assisting the Water Corporation and Department of Water and Environmental Protection to prepare for Busselton’s Vasse Diversion Drain upgrade and revegetation plan.

17.01.2022 A array of camera trap photos from our ongoing mine site restoration research

15.01.2022 Congratulations to Adam Cross on winning the STEM Researcher Award at the Research and Engagement Awards last Thursday, which celebrate the achievements of Curtin researchers.

15.01.2022 Read about Sophie Preston's research

14.01.2022 Happy National Ag Day a day when we pay tribute to Aussie farmers and the industry that supports them.

14.01.2022 HDR student Damian talking about his research project and Curtin experience Curtin University #CurtinResearch #CurtinUniversity

04.01.2022 A mallee fowl mound is a good example of an extended phenotype. The male gnow (mostly) makes the mound from sandy soil and organic material, scraping it up to ...a metre in height, and the female lays her eggs in the middle if she is impressed with his hard work. Mounds can last, probably, hundreds of years, but an active one is distinctive, with bits of old egg shell scraped out, the surface raked by the gnow’s feet (https://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/malleefowl) As part of a project with Karara mine site, we are now looking at mallee fowl mounds more details to come later. This involves a fair bit of walking around the bush, which is nice in the open euc woodland but a bit less fun in dense acacia. An extra are the reptiles and other things we get see. See more

02.01.2022 Kingsley Dixon comments on the need to assemble a taskforce to aid in the demise of Cottesloe’s Norfolk Island pines