Recent Initiatives for Biodiversity Conservation on Privately Tenured Rural Land: An Introductory Survey and Discussion
Dart, P., England, P. C., and Quinn, N. (2022)
In Australia, and across the world, there is growing interest in protecting biodiversity on privately tenured rural land. New design frameworks and new funding models, including market-driven opportunities, are being actively pursued by Aus...
Award of Life Membership to Angela H. Arthington, 18 June 2022
The Royal Society of Queensland (2022)
177 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. Individual articles may be copied or downloaded for private, scholarly and not-for-profit use. Quotations may be extract...
Coal, Bees and Fossils: The History and Significance of the Redbank Plains Formation Fossil Sites, South East Queensland
Rix, A. (2022)
The Redbank Plains Formation, between Brisbane and Ipswich in South East Queensland, provides fossil evidence of the fauna and flora of the earliest part of the Cenozoic era, and is dated from the Paleogene Period, specifically the late Pal...
A Career Retrospective
Arthington, A. H. (2022)
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Using DNA Information to Breed for Disease-resistant Strawberries
O’Connor, K., Neal, J., Gomez, A., and De Faveri, J. (2022)
Strawberries are susceptible to many diseases that cause damage to leaves and fruit, such as powdery mildew. Many chemical sprays are used to control disease, but there is an industry, environmental and societal push to move away from fungi...
Volume 131 Proceedings of The Royal Society of Queensland
The Royal Society of Queensland (2022)
The Royal Society of Queensland has an honourable history as the senior scientific institution in the state. It was established in 1884, with royal patronage continuing unbroken from 1885. Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PS...
Optimising Facility Location and Sizing for Coral Aquaculture Production
Lippmann, R. B., Helmstedt, K. J., Gibbs, M. T., and Corry, P. (2022)
Active restoration is increasingly being seen as a viable method for reversing global coral reef decline in many locations. We assess coral aquaculture production as a restoration strategy to grow and deploy cultivated corals to specified r...
Boomerangs Shape Stone Tools in Ancient Queensland: Experimental Archaeology and Traditional Knowledge Reveal a New Function of the Most Iconic Indigenous Tool
Martellotta, E. F., and Craft, P. (2022)
Without a doubt, boomerangs are one of the Sunshine State’s symbols. But forget everything you know about their ‘returning effect’. Whereas returning boomerangs were only used for games and learning purposes, non-returning boomerangs ...