'The event that put Darwin on the map, while nearly wiping it off': Cyclone Tracy 50 years on Cyclone Tracy was one of Australia’s most damaging natural disasters. Fifty years on, we recall the devastating storm and the extensive evacuation and reconstruction that followed. Read more Ad...
Western AustraliaAfter an 11-year period of exceptional specimen acquisition, we evaluated the robustness of the Western Australian Herbarium Specimen Database in elucidating patterns of diversity and phytogeographic maps of the Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR). Using rarefaction strategies to...
Maps are downloaded to your phone when have an internet connection, and from that point on, you are independent of the internet. The simple geology maps are rich with contextual data - including shaded relief, roads, towns, tracks, rivers, lakes, geographic names, indigenous land, national ...
This strong geographic patterning of chloroplast DNA provided evidence for the survival of T. lanceolata in multiple putative wet forest refugia as well as evidence for additional wet forest species refugia in southeastern Australia. In western Tasmania lower haplotype diversity below the LGM tree line...
Population genetic analyses of Platyplectrum ornatum. (a) Distribution range of the species. (b) Sampling location of the individuals used in this study (in the inset, a photograph of one specimen). The map was generated using “ggmap (v3.3.0)” package (github.com/dkahle/ggmap) in stat...
Indigenous peoples of Australia Indigenous Peoples Move your cursor over any area of the map to reveal the magnifying glass circle. Scroll your mouse wheel to zoom in or out within the magnifying circle. On touch screens, tap once on the screen to show the magnifying circle. Then, keep you...
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from the five major states1 (see Appendix A for a map), including Sydney (capital of the state of New South Wales, NSW), Melbourne (capital of Victoria, VIC), Brisbane (capital of Queensland, QLD), Perth (capital of Western Australia, WA) and Adelaide (capital of South Australia, SA)...
Australia has historically used structural descriptors of height and cover to characterize, differentiate, and map the distribution of woody vegetation across the continent but no national satellite-based structural classification has been available. In this study, we present a new 30-m spatial resolutio...
Aboriginal peoples traditionally lived by hunting and gathering and were seasonally mobile, but, because each local clan was deeply attached to certain local sites of ritual importance, permanent population movements seem to have been gradual. The linguistic map of Australia reflects stepwise migrations ...