UQ School of Biological Sciences

05/05/2015

Fossils reveal tropical marine ecosystems under threat
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/05/fossils-reveal-tropical-marine-ecosystems-under-threat

An international scientific team has used a 23-million-year fossil record to calculate which marine animals and ecosystems are most at risk of extinction today.

29/03/2015

A University of Queensland researcher who has caught the endangered northern hopping mouse on camera for the first time believes the tiny mammal could be closer to the brink of extinction than previously thought.

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/03/elusive-mouse-edges-close-extinction

A University of Queensland researcher who has caught the endangered northern hopping mouse on camera for the first time believes the tiny mammal could be closer to the brink of extinction than previously thought.

20/03/2015

Stephen Fry featured two pieces of "deadly and dangerous" research from UQ this week on QI - Quite Interesting.

Dr Diana Fisher's research on suicidal marsupial mice reproduction (http://bit.ly/1FHWJuO) and Assoc Prof Bryan Grieg Fry's work, which shows there is no such thing as a non-venomous snake (http://bit.ly/18O4jH0).

Stephen Fry looks at the quite interesting side of all things lethal, with a deadly and dangerous panel of Bill Bailey, Sandi Toksvig, Jason Manford and Alan Davies.

02/03/2015

International applications for the Master of Conservation Biology are due by the 1st of April.

http://www.biology.uq.edu.au/master-conservation/

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18/02/2015

The Property and Facilities Division and the Biodiversity Research Group are working together to install and monitor bird boxes on UQ campuses in a project that links field research with biodiversity enhancement.

http://www.uq.edu.au/sustainability/index.html?page=218262&pid=143174

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12/02/2015

How do animals communicate? Can they be taught a human language? The answers to these questions, plus more will be explored by Yale University's Professor Stephen R. Anderson at the School of Languages and Cultures' first Public Lecture for 2015.
Date: Tuesday 10 March

Time:
Registration: 6:00pm Lecture: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Reception: 7:30pm - 8:30pm

Venue:
May Hancock Auditorium, The Women's College
Register at: http://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/doctor-dolittles-delusion

09/02/2015

Trading maximum speed for manoeuvrability may be essential to surviving a run-in with a predator, a new study shows.

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/02/running-faster-equals-disaster

University of Queensland researchers have investigated quoll crashes during high-speed cornering, which can impact individual quolls and ecosystems.

20/01/2015

Rapid climate change likely to challenge animal resilience
http://uqnews.drupal.uq.edu.au/article/2014/12/rapid-climate-change-likely-challenge-animal-resilience

Animals that regulate their body temperature through the external environment may be resilient to some climate change but not keep pace with rapid change, leading to potentially disastrous outcomes for biodiversity.

16/01/2015

Release the sterile males: perfecting new controls for mosquito borne disease
http://www.biology.uq.edu.au/release-the-sterile-males-perfecting-new-controls-for-mosquito-borne-disease

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14/01/2015

Obituaries for coral reefs may be premature, study finds
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/01/obituaries-coral-reefs-may-be-premature-study-finds

Coral reefs are the poster child for the damage people are doing to the world’s oceans. Overfishing, pollution and declining water quality have all taken their toll on reefs around the world. Perhaps the most famous example is Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, where half of the coral cover has disappe…

21/08/2014

Welcome to the Hobart William Smith Colleges and Union College visiting UQ for the next 3 months!

20/08/2014

UQs clean and green litter machine will cut carbon emissions http://ow.ly/zqG9A