The continent of Australia is teeming with diverse life, both in flora and fauna. It boasts some of the most unique and spectacular plant species, important to the native ecology. Australian plants ...

CD-ROM entitled: Australia's native vegetation MVG 2007. From the label: "This disk of GIS data and Major Vegetation Group Facts Sheets has been prepared to accompany the booklet Australia's native ...

Australia’s fire preparedness just got smarter, more colourful and easier to access.

New research has uncovered the history of when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first expanded across the continent. "C 4 plants evolved to be able to ...

Australia has the largest intact savannas on Earth. Savannas are an ever-changing mosaic of ecosystems—from the sparse grasslands to dense woodlands, forests and wetlands.

Andrew Rozefelds receives funding from the Herman Slade Foundation and Churchill Trust, Australia. The Australian continent is now geologically stable. But volcanic rocks, lava flows and a ...

A decision by one of Australia’s biggest beef producers to end broadscale clearing of remnant native vegetation on the company’s 18 cattle properties sets a new benchmark for sustainable land ...

1. A fire history (1980 to the present) developed for Kakadu National Park, derived mostly from manual interpretation of LANDSAT MultiSpectral Scanner (MSS) imagery, was used as the temporal basis for ...