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.
Many SMP staff and students attended Matt Holden’s recent sold-out BrisScience public lecture at the State Library of Queensland on documenting more than 1,000 species in his inner-city share house. The talk included an interactive game that challenged the audience to guess whether each species shown on screen was found in the share house or in Lamington National Park. Unfortunately, tickets sold out before some of us could sign up, but the talk is now freely available online on UQ Science’s YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-CHGgJYrPc
