News: Honours projects - Ecology and environmental science
How ocean warming & acidification (or nuclear winter) changes wildlife
![Ocean warming and impact on changes wildlife](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/penguins.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=YUVgl_Lv)
Honours project: How does ocean warming and acidification affect wildlife?
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Future carbon emissions – comparing the responses of land plants with marine plants
![Marine plant responses to carbon emissions](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/kelp.jpg?h=4521fff0&itok=WsP52sHv)
Honours project: Compare responses of land plants with marine plants to future carbon emissions.
Save our Giant Australian Cuttlefish & Little Penguins
![Giant Australian cuttlefish can change the colour and texture of their skin. David Wiltshire, Author provided](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/2018-11/news-cuttlefish-2.jpeg?h=965e8c19&itok=FRjEqKl8)
Honours project: Get involved in key research that aims to save the plight of our marine life.
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Restoration of Adelaide’s coastal seagrasses
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Honours project: Help support the restoration of Adelaide’s coastal seagrasses.
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Resolving the taxonomic status of bandicoots and gliders for conservation management
![Marsupial glider research](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/glider.jpg?h=c617a7cd&itok=91aJSdcU)
Honours project: Study the population genetic structure and phylogeography of either bandicoots or marsupial gliders.
Hill-Robertson interference, the Red Queen and the evolution of sex
![Study the evolution of sex](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/evolution-of-sex.jpg?h=36980585&itok=1nCrKy52)
Honours project: This evolutionary genetics honours project explores the Hill-Robertson interference, the Red Queen and the evolution of sex.
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Testing the gamete competition theory of the evolution of anisogamy
![Study the evolution of sex](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2019-03/evolution-of-sex.jpg?h=36980585&itok=1nCrKy52)
Honours project: Explore genetics and evolutionary biology by testing the gamete competition theory of the evolution of anisogamy.
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Early animal evolution: evidence from the Ediacaran & Cambrian
Honours project: Palaeontology meets biology and evolution. Explore animals from early in time.
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Marine & freshwater ecology & fish biology
![Marine biology](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/marine-ecology-2918.jpg?h=fbf4b26c&itok=1YcNA0j2)
Honours project: Contribute to research in freshwater, estuarine and marine waters focusing on fish, cephalopods and environmental issues.
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Stomatal protection mechanisms in Casuarinaceae
Honours project: Investigate how this iconic family manage to evolve to the point where it is one of the last trees standing in arid Australia.
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