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#openaccess Understanding seed lifespan is allowing seedbanks like @kingspark_wa to prioritise seed collection for wild species conservation, writes Sundari Balasubramaniam & colleagues from @MUniResearch @uwanews @AarhusUni_int doi.org/10.1071/BT24065
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Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday! 🌲 Tasmania is a global hotspot for giant trees! 🌏🌳 #DahlFellow Brett Mifsud & team found 18+ eucalypts over 90m, with ‘Centurion’ standing at 96m.
Read the study: publish.csiro.au/bt/Fulltext… & Guardian coverage: theguardian.com/environment/… 🌿
📸: Supplied
#openaccess Eucalytpus regnans confirmed the tallest flowering plant in the world, following survey of Tasmanian wet forests. Brett Mifsud & colleagues @utas_ @UW_SEFS doi.org/10.1071/BT23088
#openaccess Heat from fire triggers germination of golden top wattle seeds (Acacia mariae) - particularly following very severe, intense fires, writes Boyd Wright & colleagues @UniNewEngland @UQ_News doi.org/10.1071/BT24023
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Good news for authors in lower income countries wishing to publish #OpenAccess.
Through our partnership with @R4LPartnership we are now able to waiver Author Processing Charges for authors from eligible regions for most of our journals.
Details: publish.csiro.au/journals/lo…
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1:30 PM UPDATE, THURS 23 JAN: The time has finally come! Putricia has started to bloom. Palm House will be open until midnight tonight (Thursday) and reopen from 8am tomorrow (Friday).
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#openaccess No increase in detections although greaster sampling of sentinel host species needed to monitor Phytophthora cinnamomi disease progression in southern Sydney. Tanya Mason and colleagues @CES_UNSW doi.org/10.1071/BT24037
#openaccess Biocontrols manage invasive plants & can impact related, non-target species. Stephanie Chen & colleagues from @Parks_Australia @CSIRO use molecular analysis to determine whether the rare daisy fleabane (Erigeron conyzoides) might be at risk doi.org/10.1071/BT24047
New Year, new paper. We're half way through the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021 - 2030), and fittingly, Jamie Kirkpatrick (requiescat in pace) and colleagues report on 50 years native vegetation change in Hobart's urban parklands @utas doi.org/10.1071/BT24042
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Have you heard about the Australian Reference Genome Atlas? It's a digital atlas researchers can use to easily discover and work with genomic data. 🌱🐨🧬
Researchers can use this resource to to better-understand the environment 🌳 spr.ly/6015vfe9L
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Giant Hairy Pitcher Plant Discovered In Northern Borneo | Sabah Forestry Department, Cairns Botanic Gardens Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria @RBG_Victoria, published by @AusJBotany
by @GrrlScientist
#NewSpecies #botany #conservation #Borneo #SciComm forbes.com/sites/grrlscienti…
#New paper: Leandro Dias da Silva & colleagues from @UesbOficial report on a faster, cheaper field-ready method to estimate chlorophyll content in Eucalyptus urophylla and Khaya senegalensis seedlings doi.org/10.1071/BT24019
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Named after the orangutan 🦧, a new pitcher plant is described from Borneo by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria botanist Dr Alastair Robinson @botanydoc and colleagues in Malaysia.
See: publish.csiro.au/bt/Fulltext…
📸: A. Damit; A. Robinson; Nur Adillah Yusof
#RBGVScience @RBG_Victoria
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Hey plant people! Australian Journal of Botany has its own new handle @AusJBotany Please follow to get all the latest highlights. Fun fact: @jmorganecology and I (here looking out to AJB's bright future😊) are the Editors-in-Chief. Come say hi at #ESAus2024
Macairea radula is an evergreen shrub native Brazil, Bolivia & Paraguay, often parasitised by gall wasps. New research by Patrícia Santos Dias & colleagues @UFU_Oficial reveals how gall wasp pupae induce nutritive changes in the cells of their host doi.org/10.1071/BT23064
Throwback to our 2016 special issue on rare plants, where we explored the genetics, ecology, and conservation of highly threatened species across Australia. publish.csiro.au/bt/collecti…
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Journal Manager @PattedPlants has been at #IC24 this week, chatting to delegates about @AusJChem, as well as catching up with Editor-in-Chief @gakoutsantonis & Social Media Ed @CheMasnun.
Be sure to drop by our stand tomorrow for a chat!
#Inorganic24 #AusJChem @RACI_Inorganic
We're at ##ESAus2024 in Melbourne! Visit Briana (right) at the @CSIROPublishing stand to chat about publishing with us or our sister journals.
New paper: obligate seeding (repopulation via seed germination) enables #Banksia cunninghamii populations to persist after fire. But increasing fire frequency & severity threatens the future of this species, writes Annette Muir & colleagues @DEECA_Vic doi.org/10.1071/BT24048



















