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"We are biodiversity researchers – an ecologist, a mathematician and a
taxonomist – who were locked down together during the COVID pandemic. Being
restricted to the house, it didn’t take long before we began to wonder how many
species of plants and animals we were sharing the space with. So we set to work
counting them all.
We guessed we would find around 200–300, and many of our colleagues guessed the
same.
There was nothing extraordinary about our 400 square metre block of land in
Annerley, a suburb of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Roughly half the block
was occupied by a three-bedroom house.
What was extraordinary was the number of species we discovered there. As
revealed in our just-published study, starting on the first day of lockdown and
continuing over the course of a year, we catalogued 1,150 species on our
inner-city property."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
