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• 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

• 生态学 = ‘Ecology’ in China

  

  I’m just heading home after a very inspiring workshop organised by Fangliang He at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China (I’m writing this from the Qantas... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2011 BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• Tropical Forests Cooking Their Biodiversity

  

  Another ‘hot’ essay by Bill Laurance recently published online by Yale Environment 360 (a publication of the Yale University School of Forestry &... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Silence of the Birds

  

  Yet another contribution from my PhD student, Salvador Herrando-Pérez (see his previous ConservationBytes.com posts on micro-evolution and pollination). – In th... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Ecosystem Services – the Non-human Perspective

  

  A picture is worth a large, generally unquantifiable number of words (in all languages):Who says I’m a misanthropist?Enjoy your weekend. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Classics: Effective Population Size Ratio

  

  Here’s another concise Conservation Classic highlighted in our upcoming book chapter (see previous entries on this book). Today’s entry comes from a colleague o... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Who’s Your Carbon Daddy?

  

  The other day, Bill Laurance asked Barry Brook and me to comment on an opinion editorial he was doing up, so I feel fully justified in reproducing it here (and... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Getting Conservation Stakeholders Involved

  

  Here’s another guest post from another switched-on Queensland student, Duan Biggs. Duan, originally from Namibia and South Africa, is doing his PhD at the ARC... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Crocodiles, Spiders and Leeches

  

  I just wrote a fun little piece for a new section in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment that they’re calling Trails and Tribulations. The basi... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2011 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, ENVIRONMENT

• Species’ Ability to Forestall Extinction – AudioBoo

  

  Here’s a little interview I just did on the SAFE index with ABC AM:Not a bad job, really.And here’s another one from Radio New Zealand:CJA Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Resolving the Environmentalist’s Paradox

  

  Here’s an extremely thought-provoking guest post by Megan Evans, Research Assistant at the University of Queensland in Kerrie Wilson‘s lab. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Does the Pope Wear a Funny Hat?

  

  Does a one-legged duck swim in circles? Does an ursid defecate in a collection of rather tall vascular plants? Does fishing kill fish? Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Buzzing to the Plate

  

  Here’s another contribution from my PhD student, Salvador Herrando-Pérez (see his previous ConservationBytes.com post on micro-evolution here). Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2011 BIOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE

• A Very Pissed-off New Guinean Versus the Destroyer of Forests

  

  I really don’t know where this came from (weird e-mail trail), but it was too good not to share. For those of you who follow ConservationBytes.com, you might... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• How Fast Are We Losing Species Anyway?

  

  I’ve indicated over the last few weeks on Twitter that a group of us were recently awarded funding from the Australian Centre for Ecological Synthesis and... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss XI

  

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

  Posted on 21 March 2011 ENVIRONMENT

• Classics: Demography Versus Genetics

  

  Here’s another short, but sweet Conservation Classic highlighted in our upcoming book chapter (see previous entries on this book). Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2011 ENVIRONMENT