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.
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Species-area & Species-accumulation Curves Not the Same
I’ve just read an elegant little study that has identified the main determinants of differences in the slope of species-area curves and species-accumulation... Read more
Posted on 30 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Homage to Hanski
The Quantitative Applied Ecology Group A tribute from QAECO Ecology lost a giant last week. It was with great sadness that we at QAECO heard of Professor Ilkk... Read more
Posted on 21 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXVII
Another six biodiversity cartoons because I have a full-on month of lecturing. I’ll call this one the ‘over-population’ issue. See full stock of previous... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Australia Pisses Away the Little Water It Has
Water, water nowhere, with little left to drink.—Australians are superlative natural resource wasters, but living in the driest inhabited continent on the... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
One-two Carbon Punch of Defaunation
I’ve just read a well-planned and lateral-thinking paper in Nature Communications that I think readers of CB.com ought to appreciate. Read more
Posted on 30 April 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Shadow of Ignorance Veiling Society Despite More Science Communication
I’ve been thinking about this post for a while, but it wasn’t until having some long, deep chats today with staff and students at Simon Fraser University‘s... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXVI
Another six biodiversity cartoons because it’s shaping up to be a crazy week. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more
Posted on 13 April 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Most-Bestest Environment Minister in the World, Ever
Our Most-Bestest Minister EverAustralia has an appalling environmental record — hell, I have even written an entire book on our sorry state of environmental... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
How to Find Fossils
Many palaeontologists and archaeologists might be a little put out by the mere suggestion that they can be told by ecologists how to do their job better. That i... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Sensitive Numbers
A sensitive parameterYou couldn’t really do ecology if you didn’t know how to construct even the most basic mathematical model — even a simple regression is a... Read more
Posted on 22 March 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Higher Biodiversity Imparts Greater Disease Resistance
Is biodiversity good for us? In many ways, this is a stupid question because at some point, losing species that we use directly will obviously impact us... Read more
Posted on 12 March 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXV
Another six biodiversity cartoons for you this week (see here for why I provide six each time). See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Environmental Arsehats
I’m starting a new series on ConservationBytes.com — one that exposes the worst environmental offenders on the planet.I’ve taken the idea from an independent... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Biowealth
While I’ve blogged about this before in general terms (here and here), I thought it wise to reproduce the (open-access) chapter of the same name published in... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
How to Rank Journals
… properly, or at least ‘better’.In the past I have provided ranked lists of journals in conservation ecology according to their ISI® Impact Factor (see lists... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Bad Science
In addition to the surpassing coolness of reconstructing long-gone ecosystems, my new-found enthusiasm for palaeo-ecology has another advantage — most of the... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
It’s Not Always Best to Be the Big Fish
Loosely following the theme of last week’s post, it’s now fairly well established that humans tend to pick on the big species first. Read more
Posted on 03 February 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
No Evidence Climate Change is to Blame for Australian Megafauna Extinctions
Last July I wrote about a Science paper of ours demonstrating that there was a climate-change signal in the overall extinction pattern of megafauna across the... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Getting Your Conservation Science to the Right People
A perennial lament of nearly every conservation scientist — at least at some point (often later in one’s career) — is that the years of blood, sweat and tears... Read more
Posted on 22 January 2016 ENVIRONMENT -
Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XXXIV
Another six biodiversity cartoons for you this week. You might have asked yourself ‘Why six?’ — the number 6 is, of course, the smallest perfect number (i.e. Read more
Posted on 13 January 2016 ENVIRONMENT