Autumn colour changes are celebrated worldwide and, however, recent temperature trends and extremes have changed the growing conditions experienced by trees and are placing autumn displays, such as Canberra.

Internationally recognised ANU ecologist and conservation biologist Professor David Lindenmayer has been elected as a Fellow into the Ecological Society of America.

For frog populations worldwide, an unusual fungal pathogen – spread globally over the last 40 years by humans – is the cause of many species declines and extinctions. For the first time a group of scientists led by the Fenner School at ANU have mapped the spread, and impact of this pathogen.