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• Hades, Fossilised Fat-parrot Shit and Threatened Bats

  

  WTF? © P. BendleSounds like a Monty Python sketch, doesn’t it? But no, it’s about the wonderful complexity of ecology.An interesting, and very weird paper just... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Why Do Conservation Scientists Get out of Bed?

  

  Don’t be distracted © motivatedphotos.comI have, on many occasions, been faced with a difficult question after giving a public lecture. Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• No-extinction Targets Are Destined to Fail

  

  I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, and now finally I have been given the opportunity to put my ideas ‘down on paper’ (seems like a bit of an... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Ecology is a Tower of Babel

  

  In his song ‘Balada de Babel’, the Spanish artist Luis Eduardo Aute sings several lyrics in unison with the same melody. The effect is a wonderful mess. This... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XVI

  

  While in transit between tropical and temperate Australia, here’s the latest batch of 6 biodiversity cartoons (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Native Invaders Divide Loyalties

  

  California sea lion at Bonneville fish ladder. Credit: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationAs if to mimic the weirder and weirder weather... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Climate of Climate Change

  

  The primary scientific literature on climate change spawns hundreds of debates on an array of topics. When the technical debate among experts,and the obvious... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• You’re Not Even Remotely Concerned Enough

  

  I’ve just returned from a 6-week trip to the United States and I am now dealing with the intensity of things left undone for so long . But that trip was... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Restoring Doomed Fish

  

  I get called a doomsday merchant a lot, mainly because there’s not a lot of good news out there when it comes to biodiversity these days. However, now and... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Degraded States of Ausmerica

  

  You might remember that I’ve been in California for several weeks now. The principal reason for my visit was to finish a book that Paul Ehrlich and I started... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Global Ecology Postgraduate Opportunities

  

  I should have published these ages ago, but like many things I have should have done earlier, I didn’t. I also apologise for a bit of silence over the past week... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Invisible Hand of Ecosystem Services

  

  I’ve just spent nearly an entire week trying to get my head around ecosystem services (ES). You’d think that would have been a given based on my experience, my... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Malady of Numbers

  

  Organism abundance is the parameter most often requiring statistical treatment. Statistics turn our field/lab notes into estimates of population density after... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2012 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Threats to Biodiversity Insurance from Protected Areas

  

  Much of conservation science boils down to good decision making: when, where and how we ‘set aside’ terrestrial or marine areas for specific protection against... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Biodiversity Conservation and Behaviour Change

  

  I have been asked by Diogo Veríssimo, a PhD student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) based at the University of Kent, to post a call... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Experiments in Carbon-biodiversity Trade-offs

  

  Last month I covered a topic that is not only becoming the latest fashion-trend in conservation, it is also where much of the research funding is going. Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Empty Seas Coming to a Shore Near You

  

  Last week I had the pleasure of entertaining some old friends and colleagues for a writing workshop in Adelaide (don’t worry – they all came from southern... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Ghost Extinctions

  

  Jared Diamond (1) coined the expression ‘evil quartet’ for the four main human causes of species extinctions: habitat loss/fragmentation, overkill, introduced... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation and Ecology Impact Factors 2011

  

  Here we go – another year, another set of citations, and another journal ranking by ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Reports. Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Arguing for Scientific Socialism in Ecology Funding

  

  What makes an ecologist ‘successful’? How do you measure ‘success’? We’d all like to believe that success is measured by our results’ transformation of... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2012 ENVIRONMENT