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• How to Predict Marine Biodiversity

  

  One of the most important components of conservation ecology is arguably the focus on robust methods to predict ‘biodiversity’. This covers everything from... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2011 ENVIRONMENT, SEA

• Drive the Future of Biodiversity Research

  

  My colleague, Professor Alan Cooper of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, has a few funky PhD positions available in high-tech biodiversity applications. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2011 ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Australian Ecologists Support Carbon Tax

  

  Last week I came across a report that 60 % of economists support the newly proposed Australian carbon tax initiative, and that most believed the Coalition’s pla... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Do Ecologists Support Australia’s New Carbon Tax?

  

  Today on The Conversation, it was reported that 60 % of 145 economists surveyed support Australia’s new Carbon Tax scheme.I am wondering what kind of support... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Deforesting and Reforesting Australia

  A couple of weeks ago we (Andy Lowe and I) did a small interview on ABC television about the current status of Australia forests, followed by a discussion... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Life, Death and Linneaus

  

  Barry Brook (left) and Lian Pin Koh (right) attacking Fangliang He (centre). © CJA BradshawI’m sitting in the Brisbane airport contemplating how best to describ... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Taxonomy in the Clouds

  

  Another post (see previous here, here and here) by my aspiring science-communicator PhD student, Salvador Herrando-Pérez.–Taxonomy uses rigorous rules of... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• 2010 ISI Impact Factors out Now (with Some Surprises)

  

  It’s been another year of citations and now the latest list of ISI Impact Factors (2010) has come out. Regardless of how much stock you put in these (see here... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Reforesting Wealthy Countries for the Common Good

  

  © www.osmre.gov The Coalition of Financially Challenged Countries with Lots of Trees, known as ‘CoFCCLoT’, representing most of the world’s remaining tropical... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Time to Cough up for Navjot

  

  You’d have to have been living under a rock for the last two weeks not to know that our esteemed colleague, great mate and all-round... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• The Rarity Paradox

  

  My friend and colleague at the Centre National de Recherche Scientfique (CNRS), Laboratoire d’Ecologie Systématique & Evolution based at the Université... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• The Few, the Loud and the Factually Challenged

  

  Here’s a little paraphrased response I received from a colleague who works for a particular agency concerned about the ridiculous politicking and... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Navjot Sodhi is Gone, but Not Forgotten

  

  I woke up this morning to a battery of emails expressing their condolences on the tragic passing of Navjot Sodhi. I have to say that his death is personally a... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Know Thy Threat

  

  Here’s another great guest post by Megan Evans of UQ – her previous post on resolving the environmentalist’s paradox was a real hit, so I hope you enjoy this on... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• World Environment Day and Australian Forest Regeneration

  

  As I retweeted ABC Environment‘s sentiment for a Happy Environment Day, I added that we have little to be happy about. However, I am happy about one thing –... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Demise of the Australian ERA Journal Rankings

  

  Earlier this week Australian Senator Kim Carr (Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) announced the removal of the somewhat controversial ERA... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2011 SCIENCE

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XII

  

  The latest six cartoons… (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Infinite Planet Theory

  

  Rob Dietz over at the Centre for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE) just e-mailed me and suggested I reproduce a recent post of theirs on... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2011 ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE

• Over-estimating Extinction Rates

  

  I meant to get this out yesterday, but was too hamstrung with other commitments. Now the media circus has beat me to the punch. Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2011 BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• The Evil Sextet

  

  This post doubles as a Conservation Classic and a new take on an old concept. It’s new in the sense that it updates what we believe is an advance on a major... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2011 ENVIRONMENT