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• 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

• 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