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• 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

• Two New Postdoctoral Positions in Ecological Network & Vegetation Modelling...

  

  —With the official start of the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) in July, I am pleased to announce two new... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2016

  

  Last year we wrote a bibliometric paper describing a new way to rank journals, which I contend is a fairer representation of relative citation-based rankings... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• Human Population Growth, Refugees & Environmental Degradation

  

  The global human population is now over 7.5 billion, and increasing by about 90 million each year. This means that we are predicted to exceed 9 billion people b... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2017 ENVIRONMENT

• How to Respond to Reviewers

  

  Just like there are many styles to writing scientific manuscripts, there are also many ways to respond to a set of criticisms and suggestions from reviewers. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 BUSINESS, MARKETING & ADVERTISING

• Keeping Lions from Livestock — Building Fences Can Save Lives

  

  Seeing majestic lions strolling along the Maasai Mara at sunset — a dream vision for many conservationists, but a nightmare for pastoralists trying to keep thei... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2017 ENVIRONMENT