School of Life and Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions

    • Olfactory misinformation provides refuge to palatable plants from mammalian browsing 

      Finnerty, Patrick Benjamin
      Published 2023-09-11
      Mammalian herbivores browse palatable plants of ecological and economical value. Undesirable neighbours can reduce browsing to these plants by providing ‘associational refuge’, but they can also compete for resources. Here, ...
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    • Juvenile waiting stage crown-of-thorns sea stars are resilient in heatwave conditions that bleach and kill corals 

      Byrne, Maria; Deaker, Dione J.; Gibbs, Mitchell; Selvakumaraswamy, Paulina; Clements, Matthew
      Published 2023-09-06
      The juveniles of predatory sea stars can remain in their recruitment-nursery habitat for some time before their ontogenetic shift to the adult habitat and diet. These small juveniles are vulnerable to a range of factors ...
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    • A deep dive into the ecology of Gamay (Botany Bay, Australia): current knowledge and future priorities for this highly modified coastal waterway 

      Stelling-Wood, Talia; Gribben, P.E.; Birch, G.; Bishop, M.J.; Blount, C.; Booth, D.J.; Brown, Culum; Bruce, E.; Bugnot, Ana B.; Byrne, M.; Creese, R.G.; Dafforn, K.A.; Dahlenburg, J.; Doblin, M.A.; Fellowes, Thomas; Fowler, A.M.; Gibbs, M.C.; Glamore, W.; Glasby, T.M.; Hay, A.C.; Kelaher, Brendan; Knott, N.A.; Larkum, A.W.D.; Parker, L.M.; Marzinelli, Ezequiel; Mayer-Pinto, M.; Morgan, B.; Murray, S.A.; Rees, M.J.; Ross, P.M.; Roughan, M.; Saintilan, Neil; Scanes, E.; Seymour, J.R.; Schaefer, N.; Suthers, Iain; Taylor, M.D.; Williamson, J.E.; Vila Concejo, Ana; Whittington, R.J.; Figueira, W.F.
      Published 2023
      Context: Gamay is a coastal waterway of immense social, cultural and ecological value. Since European settlement, it has become a hub for industrialisation and human modification. There is growing desire for ecosystem-level ...
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    • DNA-binding, multivalent interactions and phase separation in transcriptional activation 

      Smith, Ngaio C.; Matthews, Jacqueline M.
      Published 2023
      Transcription is an essential process in biology whereby gene-specific transcription factors target sites on DNA to recruit the basal transcription machinery that will produce messenger RNA (mRNA). It is a highly regulated ...
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    • Photosynthetic acclimation to high temperature in wheat. Post-Doctoral Fellowship aligned with GRDC project US00080 

      Coast, Onoriode; Trethowan, Richard; Posch, Brad; Rognoni, Betany G.; Gaju, Oorbessy; Bramley, Helen; Mackenzie, John; Pickles, Claire; Kelly, Allison M.; Lu, Meiqin; Ruan, Yong-Ling; Atkin, Owen K.
      Published 2023-06-22
      This collection (datasets) comprise wheat flag leaf Tcrit (the critical temperature at which incipient damage to photosystem II occurs) of 54 wheat genotypes evaluated in 12 thermal environments in grain growing regions ...
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