Seasons Greetings from urbanstreams.net

The back raingarden has taken a festive turn, courtesy of recycled orange bags that I’ve put over the grape bunches in the vain hope that we might score more grapes than the birds this year. We do love the rainbow lorikeets visiting, but they are much less frequent visitors/pillagers than…

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New features for the Melbourne stream network app

The Melbourne Stream Network app  allows you to explore the streams and rivers of the Melbourne region.  Until now, the app was challenging if you weren’t sure of the name of the stream you were looking for.  I’ve now changed some settings and added features to make it easier to…

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A new paper in Ecological Applications

Congratulations to Julia White for the first paper from her PhD published in Ecological Applications.  In the paper we report on an experiment testing if wood with more surface complexity would be colonised by more individuals of and more species of invertebrates (as expected by ecological theory, but inconsistently detected),…

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New server, new look, new content

urbanstreams.net has moved to a new server.  To celebrate the move, I have spent some time giving the site a spruce-up: please have a look around. As previously announced, the interactive apps that urbanstreams.net used to host have moved to a separate server. My aim for urbanstreams.net now is for…

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