North Shore Group Meeting, with Daniel Sloane on dieback of melaleuca floodplain forests in nth Australia

Melaleuca freshwater forests act as strongholds of biodiversity, flood regulators, groundwater rechargers and climate change regulators. Melaleuca forests can also be used for medicine, building shelters and canoes, carry-barks for babies, mosquito repellent, for cooking and ceremony. Recently Aboriginal people in northern Australia have expressed concern that the forests have begun to die off on many coastal floodplains. Collaboration between University scientists and the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land was established to better understand the problem.  The project is now being expanded to use drones, satellite data, water and salinity data loggers to produce detailed models of the forests with the aim of reversing the losses.

Come to the meeting to find out more about this intriguing research