Bradshaw
Highlighting, discussing and critiquing the science of conservation that has demonstrated measurable, positive effects for global biodiversity.
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Conservation Bytes
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Highlighting, discussing and critiquing the science of conservation that has demonstrated measurable, positive effects for global biodiversity.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 654 )
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Scariest Part of Climate Change Isn’t What We Know, but What We Don’t
© Nick KimMy good friend and tropical conservation rockstar, Bill Laurance, just emailed me and asked if I could repost his recent The Conversation article... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
All (fisheries) Models Are Wrong, but Some Are Useful (to Indigenous People)
Another post from Alejandro Frid. (Note: title modified from George Box‘s most excellent quote).—As an ecologist working for indigenous people of coastal Britis... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Écologie En France
This is just a quick post to update ConservationBytes.com followers about a few things I’ll be up to over the next 5 months. While I can guarantee that the post... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Ice Age? No. Abrupt Warmings and Hunting Together Polished off Holarctic...
Oh shit oh shit oh shit …Did ice ages cause the Pleistocene megafauna to go extinct? Contrary to popular opinion, no, they didn’t. Read more
Posted on 23 July 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Can We Save Biodiversity? Not as Long as ‘democracy’ is for Sale
© Bill DayLike you, I’m tired of the constant battle with ill-informed politicians who claim all sorts of nonsense reasons for the bad environmental decisions... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXI
Fourth batch of six biodiversity cartoons for 2015, because I’m travelling and haven’t had a lot of time for a more detailed post (see full stock of previous... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Grim Tale of Global Shark Declines
Please don’t eat meHow do you prevent declines of species you cannot even see? This is (and has always been) the dilemma for fisheries because, well, humans... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
National Commitment to Conservation Brings Biodiversity Benefits
What makes some conservation endeavours successful where so many fail to protect biodiversity? Or, how long is a piece of string? Read more
Posted on 16 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Scientific Conspiracies Are Impossible
We’ve all heard it somewhere before: “It’s all just a big conspiracy and those bloody scientists are just trying to protect their funding sources. Read more
Posted on 09 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
An Appeal to Extinction Chronologists
Extinction is forever, right? Yes, it’s true that once the last individual of a species dies (apart from insane notions that de-extinction will do anything to... Read more
Posted on 02 June 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXX
Third batch of six biodiversity cartoons for 2015 (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). Read more
Posted on 27 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Dawn of Life
Looking east toward the northern Flinders Ranges from Ediacara Conservation Park. © CJA BradshawI’ve had one of the most mind-blowing weeks of scientific... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Statistical Explainer: Average Temperature Increases Can Be Deceiving
Over the years I’ve used a simple graphic from the IPCC 2007 Report to explain to people without a strong background in statistics just why average temperature... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Twenty Tips for Writing a Research Proposal
This post’s title might promise a lot, but it would be disingenuous of me to imply that I could cover all of the essential components of this massive topic in... Read more
Posted on 04 May 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Lomborg: a Detailed Citation Analysis
There’s been quite a bit of palaver recently about the invasion of Lomborg’s ‘Consensus’ Centre to the University of Western Australia, including inter alia tha... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Something Rotten from Denmark
It was just reported in the Guardian that infamous and discredited environmental charlatan, Bjørn Lomborg, who has recently been given the green light to... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Missing the Forest Despite Its Trees
An exchange on Alert-Conservation.org over the intactness of boreal forests has just erupted. Bill Laurance asked me to weigh in as an independent appraiser of... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
How Things Have (not) Changed
The other night I had the pleasure of dining with the former Australian Democrats leader and senator, Dr John Coulter, at the home of Dr Paul Willis (Director o... Read more
Posted on 12 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXIX
Second batch of six biodiversity cartoons for 2015 (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). Read more
Posted on 09 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT -
How to Contact a Potential PhD Supervisor
© http://www.phdcomics.comIt’s probably fair to say that most university-based academics regularly receive requests from people around the world wishing to be... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2015 ENVIRONMENT