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• Give Way to the Invader

  

  By weird coincidence, Salvador Herrando-Pérez (student blogger extra-ordinaire – see his previous posts on evolution, pollination, bird losses, taxonomic... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• The Seeds of Tropical Forest Destruction

  

  Bill Laurance asked me to reproduce his latest piece originally published at Yale University‘s Environment 360 website. – We live in an era of unprecedented roa... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• More is Better

  

  In one of those rare moments of perusing the latest ecological literature, I stumbled across an absolute gem, and one that has huge conservation implications. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• When Did It Go Extinct?

  

  It was bound to happen. After years of successful avoidance I have finally succumbed to the dark side: palaeo-ecology. I suppose the delve from historical/moder... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Does Conservation Biology Need DNA Barcoding?

  

  In November last year I was invited to participate in a panel discussion onthe role of DNA barcoding in conservation science. The discussion took place during... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2012 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XIV

  

  The last post of 2011, I thought I’d focus on the lighter side (that is to say, my brain is muddled by the lovely break from academia, so I don’t really feel... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Surgical Conservation: Gain Requires Some Pain

  

  I apologise to CB readers for the unusually low frequency of posts this month. With the International Congress for Conservation Biology taking up a lot of my... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Slicing the Second ‘lung of the Planet’

  

  Apologies for the slow-down in postings this past week – as many of you know, I was attending the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Auckland.... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Better SAFE Than Sorry

  

  http://goo.gl/KZ50oLast day of November already – I am now convinced that my suspicions are correct: time is not constant and in fact accelerates as you age... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Supercharge Your Science V.2

  

  http://goo.gl/ogdT8I suspect a lot of ConservationBytes.com readers will be attending the imminent 25th International Congress for Conservation Biology to be... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Marine Forests Dropping off the Edge

  

  This is probably a little late in terms of breaking news, but it’s good fodder for a blog post nonetheless. I’ve done several posts now on the value (and... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Where Are They? Finding (and Conserving) the Biggest Fish in the Sea

  

  A post from my PhD student, Ana Sequeira, on her latest paper just out in Diversity and Distributions: Ocean-scale prediction of whale shark distribution. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Sustainable Kangaroo Harvests

  

  http://goo.gl/FNgcO When I first started this blog back in 2008, I extolled the conservation virtues of eating kangaroos over cattle and sheep. Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Mucking Around the Edges

  

  Barry Brook over at BraveNewClimate.com beat me to the punch regarding our latest paper, so I better get off my arse and write my take on things. This post is... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Oceans Need Their Giants

  

  Another great post from Salvador Herrando Pérez.–from adsown.blogspot.comCommercial and sport fishing establish minimum body sizes for catches of many species t... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Where the Sick Buffalo Roam

  

  It’s been some time coming, but today I’m proud to announce a new paper of ours that has just come out in Journal of Applied Ecology. While not strictly... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Follow the TREND

  

  A little clichéd, I know, but that’s what it says on the T-shirt.It’s been an interesting week. Not only did I return to some much-needed field work (even if... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Not Magic, but Necessary

  

  In April this year, some American colleagues of ours wrote a rather detailed, 10-page article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution that attacked our concept of... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Twenty Landmark Papers in Biodiversity Conservation

  

  While I can’t claim that this is the first time one of my peer-reviewed papers has been inspired by ConservationBytes.com, I can claim that this is the first... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Little Left to Lose: Deforestation History of Australia

  

  I don’t usually do this, but I’m going to blog about a paper I’ve just had accepted in the Journal of Plant Ecology that isn’t yet out online. The reason for th... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2011 ENVIRONMENT