Join us on Wed 20th & Thu 21st April 2022 - to learn and discuss how the GIRG and leading industry professionals are striving to transform our cities into greener, healthier places. Program and Registration: ngiv.com.au//NGIV/News/NGI…

With over 2,700 native and exotic plant species or cultivars and 7,930 high quality images, the Burnley Plant Guide from Green Infrastructure Research Group is a comprehensive guide to landscape plants grown in south-eastern Australia. Tap to subscribe to the guide ▶️ girg.science.unimelb.edu.au

Check out our talented PhD researchers discuss some of their work at City of Melbourne's event - Greening Our Future: the next generation of green roof researchers. youtube.com/watch?v=jH1Qd7…

Sometimes hard to believe that I get to work at the wonderland that is the #SEFS #Burnley University of Melbourne campus

What can you plant in the city to help biodiversity? Plants that provide good resources (ofc)! Does planting for biodiversity work? Yes! Monitoring biodiversity plantings by Nick Williams Green Infrastructure Research Group shows increases in richness and abundance of native 🐝, and abundance of 🦋

Urban areas cover a far wider ranges of climatic niches than expected based on realised niches represented in historic species ranges - but does that make it more vulnerable to loss under future climates? Really interesting work by Patricia Rettondini Torquado BioSciences UniMelb

✨Special Session 15: "The cooling benefits of blue and green infrastructure in cities" led by Professor Stephen Livesley Green Infrastructure Research Group and Paul Cheung Pui Kwan Cheung

The gov wants to create a national nature repair market to enable biodiversity restoration that's "beyond" them. It's riddled w faulty premises & forseeable pitfalls. Biodiversity mgt is a complex public good better delivered by direct public investment theconversation.com/would-a-nature…

Australia's public spaces are planted with beautiful, practical, native Woody Meadows 🌾 In the face of rapid urban growth and climate change, there's a critical need for new landscape approaches in our cities → unimelb.me/42HKPQJ #UniMelbPursuit Science at Melbourne Green Infrastructure Research Group

So happy to see this work finally being launched: #Guidelines for #Biodiversity #GreenRoofs. You wanna know how do design and manage your green roof in hot and dry climates such as Melbourne to enhance biodiversity benefit? melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollection…

My first paper from my PhD is out and it's open access! We measure how trees in biofilters recover from multiple droughts and how helpful an internal water storage can be for maintaining transpiration and growth and reducing drought stress. doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

#ESAus23 Katherine Horsfall from Green Infrastructure Research Group is testing novel methods to establish native wildflower meadows in cities #urbanEcology 🌼🏵️🌱🪷🪻💮 Adding a good depth of sand alone reduced weeding effort and still had good growth and species richness... With fewer slugs!!

We did an #experiment to measure the #social and #ecological effects of #urban #trees. After removal, #birds #biodiversity and #mammals abundance were reduced. Also, #people assigned less importance to #nature #trees. People and Nature besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

Awesome to see the Native Wildflowers in urban 🏙️ settings like this one at gatehouse street royal park attracting #nativebees 🐝 Great work City of Melbourne Green Infrastructure Research Group Comparative Urban ecology Research Training & Katherine Horsfall

with Caragh Threlfall University of Melbourne Green Infrastructure Research Group Dieter Hochuli City of Melbourne Merri-bek City Council Ballarat Council

NEW: 3 continuing (research-contingent) roles at Waterway Ecosystem Research Group 💠Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Water Management 💠Research Fellow–Optimisation & Control of Smart Rainwater Grids 💠Research Fellow–Economic Instruments for Market-Driven Smart Rainwater Grids jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/listing/