Bradshaw
Highlighting, discussing and critiquing the science of conservation that has demonstrated measurable, positive effects for global biodiversity.
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Conservation Bytes
http://ConservationBytes.com/
Highlighting, discussing and critiquing the science of conservation that has demonstrated measurable, positive effects for global biodiversity.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 654 )
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Giving a Monkey’s About Primate Conservation
Concrete jungle. A Barbary macaque sits in a human-dominated landscape in Gibraltar. Photo: Silviu PetrovanSaving primates is a complicated business. Primates... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Research in Translation
Do you enjoy the challenge of communicating complex scientific ideas and conservation issues to the general public? Current Conservation is looking for... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLV
The last set of biodiversity cartoons for 2017. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more
Posted on 06 December 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Microclimates: Thermal Shields Against Global Warming for Small Herps
Thermal microhabitats are often uncoupled from above-ground air temperatures. A study focused on small frogs and lizards from the Philippines demonstrates that... Read more
Posted on 21 November 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Ecologists Are Gender-biased
© xkcd.comI normally don’t do this, but this is an extra-ordinary circumstance.As many of you are already aware, Franck Courchamp and I published a paper in... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecological Networks
Well, we’ve been a bit unlucky.We had a fantastic round of applicants for our previously advertised position in palaeo-ecological network modelling, and had... Read more
Posted on 07 November 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
You Know You’re Screwed When the Insects Disappear
Last Friday, ABC 891 here in Adelaide asked me to comment on a conservation paper doing the news rounds last week. While it has been covered extensively in the... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
100 Papers That Every Ecologist Should Read
If you’re a regular reader of CB.com, you’ll be used to my year-end summaries of the influential conservation papers of that calendar year (e.g. Read more
Posted on 26 October 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Postdoctoral Position Re-opened in Global Ecology
I believe it is important to clarify a few things about the job advertisement that we are re-opening.As many of you might recall, we advertised two positions... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Dangers of Forcing Regressions Through the Origin
I had an interesting ‘discussion’ on Twitter yesterday that convinced me the topic would make a useful post. The specific example has nothing whatsoever to do... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLIV
Here’s another set of biodiversity cartoons to make you giggle, groan, and contemplate the Anthropocene extinction crisis. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Four Decades of Fragmentation
I’ve recently read perhaps the most comprehensive treatise of forest fragmentation research ever compiled, and I personally view this rather readable and... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
A Gender-diverse Lab is a Good Lab
—Another little expurgated teaser from my upcoming book with Cambridge University Press.—My definition of a ‘lab’ is simply a group of people who do the... Read more
Posted on 18 September 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Less Snow from Climate Change Pushes Evolution of Browner Birds
© Bill DohertyClimate changes exert selective pressures on the reproduction and survival of species. A study of tawny owls from Finland finds that the proportio... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Which Countries Protect the Most of Their Land?
One potentially useful metric to measure how different nations value their biodiversity is just how much of a country’s land its government sets aside to protec... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
When to Appeal a Rejection
A modified excerpt from my upcoming book for you to contemplate after your next rejection letter.—This is a delicate subject that requires some reflection. Read more
Posted on 26 August 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLIII
I’m travelling again, so here’s another set of fishy cartoons to appeal to your sense of morbid fascination with biodiversity loss in the sea. See full stock... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XLIII
I’m travelling again, so here’s another set of fishy cartoons to appeal to your sense of morbid fascination with biodiversity loss in the sea. See full stock... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
World of Urban Rangers
Bridging the gap between an urban population and the wildlife we love.The world continues to urbanise. According to the Population Reference Bureau, the... Read more
Posted on 02 August 2017 ENVIRONMENT -
Paying to Stop Degrading
We conservationists don’t get a lot of good news these days, and even when we do, I am reminded of the (slightly modified) expression: one step forward, but... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2017 ENVIRONMENT