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2021 survey sites each on sand plains between mulga shrublands
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Site with clear circles amongst 'old' spinifex c 30 years post burn
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Video of linyji form in sandplain
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What next? Processes to develop survey methods
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9. We survey to compare and contrast findings from Aboriginal knowledge and scientific methods
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Termitaria with exposed galleries including dark frass galleries
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10. As Aboriginal people foretold, in the pavements we find termite chambers and spinifex chaff within the consolidated soils of the termitaria.
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Collection of harvester termites in chaff store under 3cm mound on linyji
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Harvester termite soldier and scattered chaff in pavement
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Field assistant, Ron Witt, cuts trenches in spinifex grassland
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After surveying we back filled each pavement and inter pavement trench
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Team role separation: site recorder on left
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Co-authors: Gladys Bidu and Fiona Walsh at Martumili Artists
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East - west 4.8 metre diameter of pavement in recently burnt grassland
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Working solo: Photo still from time lapse
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Recording observations in pavement trench
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Mound constructed on spinifex hummock
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Fiona creating dust plumes on FC 2-1
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Confused by whitefellas: Spinifex ring in foreground on margin of termite pavement circle. Ring and circle are different but related.
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Close up of spinifex stems with blunt tips harvested by termites
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In the Pilbara with subsurface termite structures
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Eastwards track through spinifex sandplain with pavements
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Hard spinifex is part of the story
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Consolidated domes of old termitaria in Mulga shrubland exposed on eroded track
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UWA Entomologist Assoc. Prof Theo Evans
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Theo identifies termite workers as D. perniger
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Rainwater standing on a pavement. Photo by Emma Stock.
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Photo by Emma Stock