Recording a video transect
of coral reef
Montebello/Barrow Islands
Marine Conservation Reserve
The number of research projects
Researchers in the Science Division are:
- active in over 160 science project plans and a range of core conservation activities
- facilitating over 60 postgraduate student projects
- working in collaboration with external agencies on over 90 conservation projects
- working across all 9 regions of Western Australia and the 26 IBRA bioregions of Western Australia.
Breadth and variety of research projects
Researchers in the Science Division are:
- applying techniques from the molecular (DNA) level to the astronomical (photometry)
- working
at spatial scales from small islands and remnant vegetation formed by
agricultural land use to the regional level (Pilbara Biological
Survey).
- studying biota across most Kingdoms, including fungi and invertebrates (terrestrial and aquatic).
- working with organisms from the microscopic (some fungi and invertebrates) to the macroscopic (trees, birds and mammals).
- investigating
issues along a major part of the temporal spectrums, from the 1870s
(biodiversity decline) to the end of this century (climate change).
- investigating
many ecological processes including predation by foxes and cats,
disturbance regimes (fire), hydrological regimes (salt), disease,
competition, herbivory, fragmentation and germination.
- involved and expert in many research disciplines including genetics, ecology, biogeography and taxonomy.
- contributing
to policy development, monitoring programs, conservation planning,
corporatization of data, information management and adherence to
statistically sound project design and analysis.
List of Projects & Activities
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