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Hot Topics to be published in Austral Ecology

Six hot topics will be published in Austral Ecology in 2017. Hot Topics with the highest number of page views will be selected for publication.

Broken Hill 'Albert Morris Award' Field Trip

Bookings are now open for all travellers interested in coming along to Broken Hill for the Albert Morris Award August field trip!

Invitation to Comment - Coastal Swamp Oak Forest

The national Threatened Species Scientific Committee is inviting comments and submissions on a proposed listing for a nationally threatened ecological community under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).

Race to protect Australia’s migratory birds: Australian Ecology Research Award winner for 2017

Dr Fuller - Winner Australian Ecology Research Award

Australian research reveals that migratory bird numbers are declining with staggering severity and rapidity.

Iconic Australian marsupial heading for extinction

Greater gliders are Australia's largest gliding marsupial but some groups are heading for extinction: with the species conservation status now declared ‘vulnerable’.

Participate in a survey on field approaches to marine monitoring

Faced with rapid biodiversity loss, marine researchers and practitioners constrained by both diminishing budgets and rising pressures to build accountability must now more than ever design monitoring programmes that are not only robust but also cost-effective.

Hot Topics

Australia’s Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests need attention

Research on this underappreciated Australian biome lags behind rainforest and savanna

Glyphosate herbicide: is it as safe as we thought?

Managing fire for plant and animal conservation

Putting fire to work for conservation requires local knowledge

Fire-driven loss of obligate seeder forests in the Alps

Managing tensions around urban flying-fox roosts

Careful context-specific consideration is needed in decision making for urban flying-fox roosts

Climate change: Alpine shrubs as ecosystem engineers

Climate warming promotes shrub cover and range expansion via landscape flammability, snow accumulation and nutrient cycling feedbacks

Key ESA Dates 2017

July

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						1 Application forms APPLICATIONS FOR ROUND 2, 2017 WILL BE OPEN BETWEEN JULY 1 - JULY 31, 2017. Apply online Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (2017, Round 2) - continuing applicants apply here
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Latest Bulletins

ESA Bulletin March 2017

The Ecological Society of Australia is delighted to announce a new partnership with the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment. Each year, the fund supports around 200 post-graduate students to conduct research in ecology, wildlife management, and natural history studies.

ESA Bulletin November

Welcome to the new look ESA Bulletin. Regular readers will have noticed a change to the type of content being featured.

EcoTas 2017

The joint conference of the Ecological Society of Australia and the New Zealand Ecological Society
26 November - 1 December 2017
Cypress Lakes Conference Centre in the Hunter Valley in NSW,

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An exciting opportunity exists to study the dynamics of keystone habitats in agricultural landscapes...

Closing date: Monday, July 31, 2017

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