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• 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

• Outright Bans of Trophy Hunting Could Do More Harm Than Good

  

  In July 2015 an American dentist shot and killed a male lion called ‘Cecil’ with a hunting bow and arrow, an act that sparked a storm of social media outrage. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2016 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Papers of 2015

  

  As I did last year and the year before, here’s another arbitrary, retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2015 as assessed via... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Death of the Question

  

  Zombie apocalypseIt’s something I’ve noticed over the years going to scientific conferences and seminars — the number of questions, and more importantly their... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Science is Beautiful

  

  Maybe I’ve had a couple of glasses of champagne; maybe I’ve enjoyed tonight’s meal just a little too much and I am now feeling sated and content; maybe my... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2015 ENVIRONMENT

• Bee Informed: Quick Pollination Facts About Our Most Important Pollinators

  

  If bees were to disappear, humans will disappear within a few years. Albert Einstein—I find it interesting that so much is said about bees (including here on... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2015 ENVIRONMENT