Learning to manage healthy soils
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What other organisms contribute to crop pollination?
19 February 2019
Younger, regrowing forests are much more capable of taking carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it away than older established forests...
Participants at our Soil Biology Masterclass will learn how to adopt practices and strategies to enhance the life in soils and use the power of plant-soil-microbial relationships to unlock soil nutrients, produce healthier and more nutritious plants and understand how microbes drive modern farming success.
19 January 2019
To aid wildlife carers, land managers and public health officials in coping with such events, researchers from Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, CSIRO, and the Bureau of Meteorology have developed a Flying Fox Heat-Stress Forecaster.
11th June 2018
Dr Ben Moore and Dr Michaela Blyton write in Nature News on the outcomes of their research into the koala microbiome.They recently confirmed that it is possible to modify the gut microbiome of koalas to enable koalas to feed on mess-mate eucalypts as well as their usual food source, manna gums.
This important research is enabling scientists to better conserve at-risk koala populations through efforts to relocate overpopulated areas and adapt koalas to different food sources when they get there.
The international Quacarelli Symonds Subject Rankings are a worldwide ranking of major disciplines. The criteria for designating a ranking are:
Western Sydney University is ranked in the top 2% of universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Our research was rated at 5 Stars for Ecological Applications, Soil Sciences, Ecology, Plant Biology, Forestry Sciences by the 2015 Excellence In Research Australia rankings conducted by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
Western Sydney University is ranked among the top 20 Australian universities for achievements in the prestigious Australian Research Council major grants. Nearly a third of the University's ARC grant income is achieved by the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. Find out more...
Our Soil Biology and Genomics theme focuses on how environmental change influences the amazing diversity of life in soils, including its fungi, bacteria and animals... Read more about Soil Biology And Genomics
Our Plants, Animals and Interactions theme explores how these changes affect the ecology and physiology of plants and animals... Read more about Plants, Animals and Interactions
We explore how changes in climate, land use and cover affect the exchanges of carbon, nutrients, water, and energy. Using models, we integrate processes at scales ranging from leaf to globe. Read more about Ecosystem Function and Integration
