Sarah Luxton, PhD (she/her)
@SarahLuxton
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Vegetation ecologist interested in plant-soil interactions, restoration, nature markets + plant pics from Australia and NZ!
Ngunnawal Country, Australia
Joined November 2016
📄 New paper by Sarah J Luxton (CSIRO) explores how to implement "nature positive" 🌿, focusing on collaboration 🤝, financial tools 💸, and managing risks ⚠️ to biodiversity 🌍. Complexity requires science-driven solutions. Ver artículo: https://t.co/0UaCpl0eTi
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Congratulations and thank-you to @woolworths for your commitment to sell deforestation-free beef, palm oil, paper, soy and cocoa products by December 2025! Your customers will be excited to know they are helping to support sustainable agricultural producers. 🍫🍔
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The past year has seen much happen in the nature markets space and we need a range of voices in the conversation. Join our symposia at the @EcolSocAus conference, 'Nature market mechanisms – one year on' Abstracts close 12 July: https://t.co/0fKk7mRGRC
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Love them or hate them - nature markets need good science and we need you! We are seeking papers for our Special Feature "Emerging Methods for Business & Biodiversity" Please see https://t.co/bnEbcTg9vY for further info. Submissions close on Friday 2nd August.
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🚨New Special Feature "Emerging Methods for Business & Biodiversity" is now open to submissions! Led by @sebdunnett @SarahLuxton and @Daniel_AvOr, the deadline for article proposals is the 2nd of August ⏰ Find out more and submit your proposal 👉 https://t.co/mC8KXo6v8V
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Frosty morning collecting soils in the Wallendbeen cemetery! (NB: cemeteries often have areas of high-quality remnant woodland).
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Last set of soil cores before the weekend! It’s been great collecting data for our study on farm restoration plantings this week 🌱🪱🌾🪲🦗🍃
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Not a happy story, but we can’t keep burying our heads in the sand.. this is climate change affecting the home we know and love 😢
abc.net.au
It's been likened to coral bleaching, but on land — and experts are fearful dry conditions have Western Australia on the brink of another devastating 'forest collapse' event.
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Hi Canberra, we are aware of outages affecting parts of Ainslie, Dickson, Downer, Watson, Lyneham, Gungahlin, Hackett, Majura, Sutton, Campbell, Curtin, Holder, Monash and O'Connor. If you see low or fallen powerlines stay at least 10 meters away and call us on 13 10 93.
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You can’t beat a late afternoon Eucalyptus pauciflora (snow gum)! Brindabella’s, ACT
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The wonderful Lomatia myricoides (river lomatia) is just starting to flower in the Brindabella’s, Ngunnawal country, ACT
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Exocarpos cupressiformis (native cherry) fruits ~ Mt Majura Nature Reserve, Ngunnawal County, ACT.
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The tropical savannas of the Top End are breathtaking in their beauty & scale, & have extraordinary cultural, environmental & economic value. They must be cared for properly. Our article in today’s @ConversationEDU
https://t.co/iROswb4jKy
@BrettPMurphy, John Woinarski, & me.
theconversation.com
Hungry for development and industry investment, the Northern Territory government is putting one of the world’s last intact tropical ecosystems at risk. Scientists are calling for better protections.
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The beauty in the crevices! 🦎 One animal you can never get sick of seeing is the Marbled Velvet Gecko! The magnificent yellow stripes & dots almost look like they have been painted on 🎨 This beautiful gecko lives in the amazing rocky escarpments of Litchfield National Park!🌄
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Epacris impressa (common heath), a small shrub from south-eastern Australia #MaranoaBG #Epacris #Ericaceae #ozplants
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Cute as a button ~ edit: Hakea drupacea. #Ngunnawal, #Ngambri Country, ACT Thanks to @StuartWilliams_ for the updated ID.
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Interesting concept 👍
Prairie strips are a farm conservation practice that requires minimal intervention and delivers huge benefits By converting 10% of cropland to native prairie, farmers can reduce soil loss by 95%, total phosphorous loss by 90%, and total nitrogen loss by 85% A quick summary:
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📢NEW JOB ALERT!!📢 I am looking for an enthusiatic ecological/evolutionary modeller with a strong interest in population genetics to join the group @UoABioSci for a 3.5 years PostDoc position within the @Eco_Genetics project. https://t.co/9yxmSPnKZi Deadline: 4 May 23
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It’s 4am in Montreal and after several years of negotiations, governments have just adopted an historic Global Biodiversity Framework for saving nature. Here’s a thread with my take on what's good and what's bad in it.
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74 orange-bellied parrots returned from migration - quadruple the number from 2106 😊 still a huge amount to do before they are saved but it’s going in the right direction
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