ScienceNetwork WA

RESEARCHERS at UWA have discovered the chemical used by a local orchid to trick male wasps into believing it is a female on heat.

RESEARCH published by CSIRO on live-lure techniques to control the Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) concludes that live-lure remains the most successful control method for one of the world’s top 100 invasive bird species.

AN AQUATIC ecology and water management scientist has highlighted the need for greater awareness and research on potential effects of personal care product residues contaminating WA lakes and rivers.

THE Conservation Commission of WA’s Forest Management Plan 2014–2023 Environmental Scoping Document is meeting with fierce opposition from academic and environmental groups.

WEST Australian researchers have begun the first major look into Perth’s most important water resource in twenty years, with a keen focus on how increasing temperatures are affecting water security.

RESEARCH from the UWA steers the investigation of magnetic navigation by pigeons back on course, demonstrating that cells previously believed to be the basis of magnetosensation are instead non-magnetoreceptive white blood cells.

THE Swan River Trust and a team of researchers led by Curtin University Research Fellow Dr Michael Hughes are investigating why nutrient levels remain high in the Swan and Canning Rivers despite years of public education.

A WA researcher has received a national grant to examine climate adaptation in plants species used for landscape restoration.

MURDOCH University PhD student So Thea is researching a number of different techniques to find ways to improve seedling success rates that will assist in reforestation programs.

A SEED conservation program is helping to save some of WA’s most threatened plant species from extinction.