Ecology Matters

“I’m trying to understand how we can use or manipulate herbivore foraging behaviour just using plant odour rather than having to use fences or shooting or all these quite abrasive control methods." Pa...

16 Aug 202213min

“Can you imagine you have little to no nitrogen and you put all the nitrogen that you have in these young leaves that are just doomed? That's not very smart. Plants are smarter than that!” Gian is a P...

9 Aug 202211min

“Over time I understood that you can't really protect the local environment without involving the local communities, without involving landowners.” Dr Jellinek is a research fellow with the University...

2 Aug 202214min

“It was a dream come true to come back and work for the Park so I often feel like I've got the best job in the world.” Mel Wilson is the Natural Resource Manager of the Norfolk Island National Park. I...

26 Juli 20229min

“That's the whole reason why conservation researchers are in this field, right, because we want to make a difference and we want our research to help.” Allie is completing her PhD looking at the nesti...

19 Juli 202211min

“It's an ongoing battle but I do think a lot of these major environmental problems are not really about lack of knowledge.” Professor Kingsford is the Director of the Centre for Ecosystem Science at t...

12 Juli 202214min

"There’s been that big shift where people are starting to appreciate cultural knowledge a lot more than what it would have been appreciated in the past.” - Shandell Cummings Shandell Cummings is a Mer...

5 Juli 202215min

Ecology Matters is a podcast from the Ecological Society of Australia, a not-for-profit organisation supporting ecologists and ecological science in Australia. The first episode will launch July 2022 ...

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