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Team award: John Scott wins 2016 CAWS medal

September 15, 2016March 13, 2017ecosystemchangeecology

John Scott wins the Council of the Australasian Weeds Societies (CAWS) medal for leadership. John Scott, an Honorary Fellow in the Ecosystem Change Ecology team, was awarded the 2016 Council of the Australasian Weeds Societies (CAWS) Medal for Leadership last night. The CAWS Medal for Leadership is awarded for outstanding contributions to weed management in … Continue reading Team award: John Scott wins 2016 CAWS medal

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Improving weed management outcomes with the WA Parks & Wildlife Service & Mount Gibson Mining on Koolan Island in the Buccaneer Archipelago, Kimberley, Western Australia 📷: Bruce Webber (@webber.photography) ... ... #botanising #ecology #fieldwork #research #theeceteam #CSIRO #waparkswildlife #MGI #biodiversity #nature #environment #KoolanIsland #BuccaneerArchipelago #kimberley #kimberleycoast #WesternAustralia #australia #thisisWA #discoveraustralia #exploreaustralia #justanotherdayinwa @waparkswildlife

PhD supervisors are curious creatures. They turn up haphazardly on field trips, throw around curly questions, discuss the appeal of obscure tangents, and propose avenues of research that often translate into countless hours of analysis time….! 🤔😉 Luckily we have some very talented students in #theeceteam to help negotiate aspirational and leading edge, yet reasonably realistic research directions. 😃 Across islands in Thousand Island (Qiandao) Lake in Zhejiang Province, China, Shilu Zheng (@shilu.zheng) is doing her PhD with Raphael Didham, Bruce Webber (@drbrucewebber) and Mingjian Yu at UWA (@universitywa) and collaborating with CSIRO (@csirogram) and Zhejiang University. Here we’re studying shifts in the distribution of plant functional traits from the forest edge to the island interior as part of a study exploring the impacts of habitat fragmentation. 📷: Mingjian Yu ... ... #planttraits #fragmentation #forest #research #phdlife #supervisors #plants #ecology #biodiversity #environment #globalchange #international #fieldwork #science #scicomm #scienceimpact #theeceteam #CSIRO #UWA #thousandislandlake #qiandao #instachina #discoverchina #zhejiang #china #chinaaustraliacollaboration

Across islands in Thousand Island (Qiandao) Lake in Zhejiang Province, China, we’re working with Zhejiang University and the University of Western Australia to study shifts in the distribution of plant functional traits from the forest edge to the island interior. Shilu Zheng (@shilu.zheng) is doing her PhD as part of this study on habitat fragmentation, which includes manipulating herbivory by using cages over our seedlings. 📷: Bruce Webber (@webber.photography) ... ... #planttraits #fragmentation #forest #research #phdlife #plants #ecology #biodiversity #environment #fieldwork #science #scicomm #theeceteam #CSIRO #thousandislandlake #qiandao #instachina #discoverchina #zhejiang #china @shilu.zheng @universitywa @csirogram

We’re working with Curtin University to investigate how anti-predation tactics change ontogenetically and evolutionary in the King’s skink (Egernia kingii). The King’s skink is a large (up to half a meter) endemic to the coastal south west of Western Australia and surrounding islands. Like many lizards they can autotomise or ‘drop’ their tail as an effective anti-predation mechanism which can later be regenerated. At CMAC Harry Perkins we generated this micro-CT scan showing a tail with the muscle tissue digitally removed. This image reveals several vertebrae distal to where the tail was most recently autotomised, as well as a cartilage rod from a previous regeneration event. 📷: James Barr ... ... #autotomy #lizard #reptiles #egernia #regeneration #ctscan #herpetology #herpetofauna #wildlife #ecology #fieldwork #research #CSIRO #curtinuniversity #phdlife #theeceteam #scicomm @perkinsinstitute @curtinuniversity

Habitat fragmentation can change the structure of forest vegetation. On islands in Thousand Island (Qiandao) Lake in Zhejiang Province, China, we’re working with Zhejiang University and the University of Western Australia to study shifts in the distribution of plant functional traits from the forest edge to the island interior. 📷: Shilu Zheng (@shilu.zheng) ... ... #planttraits #fragmentation #forest #research #phdlife #plants #ecology #biodiversity #environment #fieldwork #science #scicomm #theeceteam #CSIRO #thousandislandlake #qiandao #instachina #discoverchina #zhejiang #china @universitywa

A spinifex (Triodia spp) landscape near Murlamunyjunha Crossing Pool, Millstream Chichester National Park, Pilbara, Western Australia. We're collaborating with Kings Park to better understand the germination ecology of this remarkably resilient genus of grasses. 📷: Bruce Webber (@webber.photography) ... ... #triodia #spinifex #botanising #ecology #ecophysiology #fieldwork #research #theeceteam #CSIRO #biodiversity #nature #environment #landscape #landscapephotography #MillstreamChichesterNationalPark #pilbara #westernaustralia #australia #thisisWA #discoveraustralia #exploreaustralia @csirogram @kingsparkandbotanicgarden @wolfski___

Sea snakes are among the most mysterious and least understood groups of reptiles. A recent ECE team paper involving @RuSomaweera and a global team of marine snake specialists outlines the future directions for sea snake research and management. Download the paper here: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00399 📷: © Ru Somaweera (@rusomaweera) ... ... #TheECEteam #publication #scicomm #seasnake #Hydrophis #snake #marinelife #reptiles #herpetofauna #wildlife #ecology #conservation #research #science #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #tropical #reptilesofinstagram

The frilled-necked lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) is one of the largest lizards in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to northern Australia and southern New Guinea and spends most of its time living in the trees. 📷: © Ru Somaweera (@rusomaweera) ... ... #Chlamydosaurus #lizard #reptiles #reptilesofinstagram #herpetofauna #wildlife #ecology #TheECETeam #ausgeo #natgeo #natgeoyourshot #yourshotphotographer #naturephotography #widlifephotography #Darwin #cuinthent #NorthernTerritory #australia #discoverAustralia #exploreaustralia

Crocodiles can and do pose a threat to human lives. Therefore, building awareness on how to reduce the risk of attach is important, especially among those who live among crocs. With the support of the ‘Be CrocWise’ campaign run by the WA Parks and Wildlife Service, we visited the Baya Gawiy Early Learning Unit in Fitzroy Crossing for an interactive morning with the kids. 📷: © Paul Yeoh ... ... #crocodiles #wildlife #fieldwork #scicomm #STEMinSchools #theeceteam #CSIRO #waparkswildlife #Bunuba #geikiegorge #fitzroycrossing #thekimberleyaustralia #westernaustralia #thisisWA @CSIROgram @waparkswildlife

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