The crossroads between evolution and ecology is where the most dynamic and important research in organism biology is currently taking place. UNSW has always had a strong reputation for its achievements in these fields of research. As a result, UNSW has established the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, which combines expertise in four schools within the science and medical faculties driving research in a range of areas: genomics and phenomics where new medicines are being developed, medical sciences, psychology and psychiatry, crop and livestock production, environmental and global change science, the study of biological invasions, and biodiversity.

Take a look at the Environmental Options 2008 Handbook to find out what’s on offer in terms of study at UNSW.

Additional info is also available via the UNSW Handbook.

Australia’s animals and plants are distinctive because of the country’s size, isolation, naturally fragmented countryside and long-term climate variability. This is why 80 percent of vertebrate animals and plants in Australia are found nowhere else in the world. (Source: State of the Environment Report 2006.)