Congratulations to our client BHP and our Biologic Seed team for winning the prestigious Golden Gecko Award for 2025!
Subterranean ecosystems, which exist underground, are known for being highly biodiverse – but also under-sampled and under-sequenced. Our Manager of Molecular Systematics, Dr Joel Huey, has recently contributed to a research paper which provides a roadmap for developing and curating barcode reference libraries for subterranean ecosystems.
Learn how we have solved one of the major limitations of land rehabilitation projects; the availability of sufficient quantities of native seeds.
[Reading Time: 2 minutes] Environmental DNA (eDNA) has almost limitless potential to provide high quality survey and monitoring data for…
Species identification can rely on multiple methods (dissection, DNA barcoding, shell morphology) but often necessitate euthanasia as shell morphology is not always reliable.
By matching fragments of DNA found in water, soil and air samples, against DNA sequence libraries, we can understand exactly what is living there, even the elusive species which can be hard to see, hear or catch.
Native bee numbers in Australia are rapidly declining. Dr Juliana Pille Arnold’s research shows that local floral resource availability strongly affects bee populations in remnant vegetation.
When chicken farmers noticed more vegetation popping up where chickens had grazed they pondering what was happening below the surface. That’s where we stepped in, analyzing the soil microbiome to understand what was changing at a microorganic level. Data from soil sampling can often prove useful for standard organic and biodynamic accreditations.
We knew there were Blind cave eel populations in the Robe Valley, because specimens had been found in eight sites, but the real question was – how do you monitor a mostly uncatchable fish?
One of the big questions in a biological survey of temporary aquatic habitats is – ‘What did we miss?’ For example, if you surveyed during a drought, would you find all the drought-resistant species present?
More than 200 people converged on Walpole at the end of September, with one common goal – to capture a snapshot of the plant and animal life hidden in the nooks and crannies of the Walpole Wilderness Area, the only gazetted wilderness in Western Australia.
