The number of research projects

Recording a video transect
of coral reef
Montebello/Barrow Islands
Marine Conservation Reserve

• 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.