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LATEST ARTICLES ( 664 )

• It’s a Tough Time for Young Conservation Scientists

  

  Sure, it’s a tough time for everyone, isn’t it? But it’s a lot worse for the already disadvantaged, and it’s only going to go downhill from here. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXVII

  

  Here is the fourth set of biodiversity cartoons for 2021. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Pest Plants and Animals Cost Australia Around $25 Billion a Year — and It Will...

  

  AAPCorey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Andrew Hoskins, CSIROThis article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Smart Genetic Analysis Made Fast and Easy

  

  If you use genetics to differentiate populations, the new package smartsnp might be your new friend. Written in R language and available from GitHub and CRAN,... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2020

  

  This is the 13th year in a row that I’ve generated journal ranks based on the journal-ranking method we published several years ago. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Interval Between Extremely Wet Years Increasing?

  

  The other day I was playing around with some Bureau of Meteorology data for my little patch of the Adelaide Hills (free data — how can I resist?), when I... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• ‘Living’ Figures

  

  Have you ever constructed a database and then published the findings, only to realise that after the time elapsed your database is already obsolete?This is the... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Losing Half of Tropical Fish Species as Corals Disappear

  

  When snorkelling in a reef, it’s natural to think of coral colonies as a colourful scenography where fish act in a play. But what would happen to the fish if th... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Is the IPCC Finally Catching up with the True Severity of Climate Change?

  

  I’m not in any way formally involved in either the IPCC or IPBES, although I’ve been involved indirectly in analysing many elements of both the language of the... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• A Domesticated Planet

  

  The abundance of wild animals is regressing speedily as the number of domesticated animals and persons keeps escalating. Such demographic contrast signals that... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• … Some (models) Are Useful

  

  As someone who writes a lot of models — many for applied questions in conservation management (e.g., harvest quotas, eradication targets, minimum viable... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXVI

  

  Here is the third set of biodiversity cartoons for 2021. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Killing (feral) Cats Quickly (and Efficiently)

  

  I’m pleased to announce the publication of a paper led by Kathryn Venning (KV) that was derived from her Honours work in the lab. Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Conservation (but Were Afraid to Ask)

  

  While some of us still might imagine the conservationist as a fancy explorer discovering new species in a remote corner of the world, or collecting samples whil... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Mapping the ‘super-highways’ the First Australians Used to Cross the Ancient Land

  

  Author provided/The Conversation, Author provided There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors first settled in Australia tens of thousands... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Population of First Australians Grew to Millions, Much More Than Previous...

  

  Shutterstock/Jason Benz Bennee We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul — the giant landmass that connected Ne... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• No, You Can’t Argue the Medieval Warm Period is Evidence That Today’s Climate...

  

  As this reconstructed village shows, Vikings made it as far as Newfoundland during the Medieval warm period. Wikimedia/Dylan Kereluk, CC BY-SA Frédérik Saltré,... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Attack of the Alien Invaders: Pest Plants and Animals Leave a Frightening $1.7...

  

  Shutterstock They’re one of the most damaging environmental forces on Earth. They’ve colonised pretty much every place humans have set foot on the planet. Yet... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• The Biggest and Slowest Don’t Always Bite It First

  

  For many years I’ve been interested in modelling the extinction dynamics of megafauna. Apart from co-authoring a few demographically simplified (or largely... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• One Trillion Dollars!

  

  Or thereabouts.Let’s step back to 2015. In a former life when I was at another institution, I had the immense fortune and pleasure to spend six months on... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2021 ENVIRONMENT