Bradshaw

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• 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

• Assessing the Massive Costs of Biological Invasions to Australia and the World

  

  A global database set up by scientists to assemble data on the economic cost of biological invasions in support of effective government management strategies ha... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Open Letter: Public Policy in South Australia Regarding Dingoes

  

  08 August 2023The Honourable Dr Susan Close MP, Deputy Premier and Minister for Climate, Environment and Water, South AustraliaThe Honourable Claire Scriven MLC... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Ancient Pathogens Released from Melting Ice Could Wreak Havoc on the World

  

  Shutterstock Science fiction is rife with fanciful tales of deadly organisms emerging from the ice and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting human victims. Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2022

  

  As I’ve done every year for the last 15 years, I can now present the 2022 conservation / ecology / sustainability journal ranks based on my (published)... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Intricate Dance of Nature — Predicting Extinction Risks in Terrestrial Ecosystems

  Have you ever watched a nature documentary and marvelled at the intricate dance of life unfolding on screen? From the smallest insect to the largest predator,... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Young Red Kangaroos Grow up Quickly Where Hungry Dingoes Lurk

  

  We’ve just published a new paper showing that young red kangaroos (Osphranter rufus) protected by the dingo-proof fence take more time to grow up than their... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• An Unexpected Journey (of Eels)

  

  The way that eels migrate along rivers and seas is mesmerising. There has been scientific agreement since the turn of the 20th Century that the Sargasso Sea is... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• New Job Posting: Research Fellow in Eco-Epidemiology & Human Ecology

  

  We are currently seeking a Research Fellow in Eco-epidemiology/Human Ecology to join our team at Flinders University.The successful candidate will develop... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Some Like It Hot

  

  Wildfires transform forests into mosaics of vegetation. What, where, and which plants thrive depends on when and how severely a fire affects different areas of ... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Better Codes of Practice for Control of Feral Animals

  

  From time to time I turn my research hand to issues of invasive species control, for example, from manipulating pathogens to control rabbits, to island... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Keeping Babies Alive Will Lower Population Growth

  

  We’ve just published a paper in PLOS ONE showing high infant mortality rates are contributing to an incessant rise of the global human population, which support... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• Remapping the Superhighways Travelled by the First Australians Reveals a...

  

  Not exactly a conservation topic, I know, but it does provide insights into how the ancestors of Indigenous Australians adapted to and thrived in a new and... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2023 ENVIRONMENT

• What We Know We Don’t Know About Animal Tolerances to High Temperatures

  

  Each organism has a limit of tolerance to cold and hot temperatures. So, the closer it lives to those limits, the higher the chances of experiencing thermal... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2023 ENVIRONMENT