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• 1 Million Hectares Annually – the Forest Destruction of Indonesia

  

  Bill Laurance wrote a compelling and very dour piece in The Conversation this week. He asked for some ‘link love’, so I decided to reproduce the article here fo... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• All That Glitters is Not Gold – Ecological Traps

  

  Another corker from Salvador Herrando-Pérez: – Cinema fans know that choosing a movie by the newspaper’s commentary or the promotional poster might be a lottery... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Rise of the Phycologists

  

  Dead man's fingers (Codium fragile) - © CJA BradshawI’ve had an interesting week. First, it’s been about 6 years since I was last in Japan, and I love coming... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• No Substitute for Primary Forest

  

  A little over five years ago, a controversial and spectacularly erroneous paper appeared in the tropical ecology journal Biotropica, the flagship journal of... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• When You Have No Idea, You Should Shut up

  

  Last week, The Conversation published a particularly wonderful example of uninformed drivel that requires a little bit of a reality injection. Like our good... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• A Supervisor’s Lament

  

  Time for a little supervisory whinge. I’ve lamented these very issues over many a beer at many a conference, so I thought I’d solidify those hazy arguments... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Gone with the Birds

  

  ebaumsworld.comAnother great post by Salvador Herrando-Pérez.–Through each new species, evolution assembles a unique combination of genes. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• How Buggered Are Our Hairy Red Cousins?

  

  Here’s a post from one of our lab’s post-doctoral fellows, Dr. Stephen Gregory. Stephen just got back from Borneo (jammy bastard), and will now regale you with... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Recognising Differing Viewpoints in a Rapidly Changing World

  

  Is oil palm bad? Is protecting tropical forests more important than converting them for economic development? Should we spike trees to make sure no one cuts the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XIII

  

  The latest six cartoons… (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). – Filed under: biodiversity, cartoon, climate... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Gagging Scientists About Marine Parks

  

  Apologies to my readers for the lack of a post this past week – I’ve been attending the Ecological Society of America‘s 96th Annual Meeting in an extremely hot... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• More Than Leftovers: Getting Marine Parks Right in Australia

  

  Image via Wikipedia A few weeks back I cosigned a ‘statement of concern’ about the proposal for Australia’s South West Marine Region organised by Hugh... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Pickled Niches

  

  Another fine contribution from Salvador Herrando-Pérez (see previous posts here, here, here and here).–Sometimes evolution fails to shape new species that are... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• 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