The green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) is an ectotherm which relies on the external environment to regulate its body temperature. Photo: Ed Meyer

Animals that regulate their body temperature through the external environment may be resilient to some climate change but not keep pace with rapid change, leading to potentially disastrous outcomes for biodiversity.

10 December 2014
Nobbi Dragon.

University of Queensland researchers have found that naturally regrowing woodlands in the subtropics can help to reduce declines in Australia’s reptiles.

10 February 2014
Photo of coral growth bands

University of Queensland researchers have found physical evidence in Great Barrier Reef corals of a little-known, long-term climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation – discovered and named only in the 1990s – describes...

13 January 2014