Bradshaw

LATEST ARTICLES ( 669 )

• Fear of Humans

  

  Many animals avoid contact with people. In protected areas of the African savanna, mammals flee more intensely upon hearing human conversations than when they... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• A Long Life Can Be a Disadvantage

  

  Deep-sea sharks include some of the longest-lived vertebrates known. The record holder is the Greenland shark, with a recently estimated maximum age of nearly... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Genetics to the Rescue

  

  Procreating with a relative is taboo in most human societies for many reasons, but they all stem from avoiding one thing in particular — inbreeding increases th... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Editors Struggling to Find Reviewers — There Are Some Bloody Good Reason...

  

  I used to think it was merely a post-COVID19 hiccough, but the extensive delays in receiving reviews for submitted manuscripts that I am seeing near constantly... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• The Colour of Survival

  

  In boreal forests, many hares adopt white winter coats before the snow arrives. In a snowless landscape, these white hares lack camouflage against predators. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Reality Check: Coral Restoration Won’t Save the World’s Reefs

  

  A coral ‘rope’ nursery in the Maldives. Luca Saponari/University of Milan, CC BY-ND Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Clelia Mulà, The University of... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Trapped in the Light

  

  Night is the peak activity period for many animal species. In the Western Andes of Ecuador, the Chocó golden scarab flies between forest patches during the... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Trump’s Asinine War on Climate Science is Pushing Us into a Dystopian Future

  

  Toa55, Shutterstock Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University US President Donald Trump’s latest war on the climate includes withdrawing support for any researc... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Job Advert: Research Associate in Environmental Time-Series Modelling

  We have just today advertised a new postdoctoral position funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• iEcology Identifies Extent of Synthetic Polymer Habitats

  

  The internet has become an informational telescope to study what happens nearly everywhere the planet. Using internet observations, it has been recently... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Add a Voice Update to Your Loops in R

  

  If you’re like me, you use a lot of loops in R. I do not profess to be the most efficient coder, but loops make sense to me and I’m generally not concerned abou... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2025 ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation and Ecology Journal Ranks 2023

  

  Quite a bit late this year, but I’ve finally put together the 2023 conservation / ecology / sustainability journal ranks based on my (published)... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2024 ENVIRONMENT

• 5000 Piggies, 500 Piggies, 100 Piggies, … and There There Was None

  

  The Black Summer bushfires of 2019–2020 that razed more than half of the landscape on Kangaroo Island in South Australia left an indelible mark on the island’s... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2024 ENVIRONMENT

• Small Populations of Stone Age People Drove Dwarf Hippos and Elephants to...

  

  Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Christian Reepmeyer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – German Archaeological Institute, and Theodora Moutsiou,... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2024 ENVIRONMENT

• Human Impact, Extinctions, and the Biodiversity Crisis

  

  Human overpopulation is often depicted in the media in one of two ways: as either a catastrophic disaster or an overly-exaggerated concern. Yet the data... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2024 ENVIRONMENT

• Less Affluent Countries More Prone to Damage Caused by Biological Invasions...

  

  Non-native species introduced mainly via increasing trade of goods and services have huge economic, health, and environmental costs. Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2024 ENVIRONMENT

• Indigenous Fire Management Began More Than 11,000 Years Ago: New Research

  

  Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the... Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2024 ENVIRONMENT

• New Ecosystems, Unprecedented Climates: More Australian Species Than Ever Are...

  

  Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world’s species of animals, birds, plants and insects – between 600,000 and 700,000 species. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2024 ENVIRONMENT

• People Once Lived in a Vast Region in North-western Australia – and It Had an...

  

  For much of the 65,000 years of Australia’s human history, the now-submerged northwest continental shelf connected the Kimberley and western Arnhem Land. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Rextinct: a New Tool to Estimate When a Species Went Extinct

  

  If several fossils of an extinct population or species are dated, we can estimate how long ago the extinction event took place. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2023 ENVIRONMENT