BrisScience: The house of a thousand species
Speaker: Dr Matt Holden
Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Physics, UQ
Abstract
Join us at this month’s BrisScience as Dr Matt Holden explores the weird and wonderful species in his suburban Brisbane sharehouse.
What lives with you? Not your housemates or your family — the other ones.
When three Brisbane researchers explored their shared Annerley rental, they expected to find a handful of species. What they found was an ecosystem.
Along with his housemates, environmental mathematician Dr Matt Holden catalogued every living thing at their inner-city share house. They found over 1,000 unique species, including three never-before recorded in Australia's national biodiversity database.
Join us at this month’s BrisScience, as Dr Holden explores their weird and wonderful discoveries, showing that you don’t need a rainforest or a reef to encounter the wild.
About BrisScience
BrisScience is The University of Queensland's public lecture series that brings science out of the labs and to the people, making it accessible to all – from scientists, to scientists-at-heart.
BrisScience has been delivering engaging monthly lectures on diverse topics from local and international scientists for over a decade.
Venue
31 Cultural Centre Tunnel, Brisbane 4101