Mette Clausen is a PhD student. She comes from University of Copenhagen, but since November 2015, she has been calling Melbourne "home". There, she has been part of a long and pervasive research project, led by Professor Ian Woodrow at Melbourne University, examining the smell which eucalyptus leaves emit - and the impact climate change has on that smell. If the eucalyptus trees change their characteristic odor, it can have serious consequences for the leaf's most fond "consumer", the koala, because it tends always to have to smell the dish of leaves before it starts munching them.
Changed eucalyptus scent could threaten koalas
Mette Clausen Source: Private photo
What are the implications of climate change for how eucalyptus leaves smell? And how will a different leaf scent affect Australia's population of koalas? Interview (in Danish language) with the Danish researcher Mette Clausen, who has been in Australia for four months to study the scent of the eucalyptus leaves.
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