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• 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

• How to Avoid Reduce the Probability of Being Killed by a Shark

  

  Easy. Don’t go swimming/surfing/snorkelling/diving in the ocean.“Oh, shit”Sure, that’s true, but if you’re like many Australians, the sea is not just a beautifu... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• A Perfect Storm of Global Ineptitude

  

  Given the ‘success’ (i.e., a lot of people seem to be reading it) of our recent Ghastly Future paper, I thought it would be interesting to go back and have a... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXV

  

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

  Posted on 10 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Recreational Hunting, Conservation and Livelihoods: No Clear Evidence Trail

  

  Enrico Di Minin, University of Helsinki; Anna Haukka, University of Helsinki; Anna Hausmann, University of Helsinki; Christoph Fink, University of Helsinki;... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Conservation Paradox – the Pros and Cons of Recreational Hunting

  

  The recovery of species such as mountain zebra (Equus zebra) was partly supported by the economic benefits generated by trophy hunting. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Job: Research Associate in Mammalian Morphology-Environment Interactions

  

  This might be a little outside the realms of ‘conservation’ per se, but put has a lot of ecology-evolution components, with spin-off applications to modern... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Citizens Ask the Experts in Climate-change Communication

  

  In the second of two consecutive interviews with climate-change experts (see the first one here), readers of the Spanish magazine Quercus have a chat with... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Ancient Bones — How Old?

  

  Radiocarbon (14C) dating was developed by Nobel-Prize winning chemist Willard Libby, and has become the predominant method to build chronologies of ancient... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Worried About Earth’s Future? Well, the Outlook is Worse Than Even Scientists Ca...

  

  Daniel Mariuz/AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles, and Paul Ehrlich, Stanford... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Time for a ‘cold Shower’ About Our Ability to Avoid a Ghastly Future

  

  “I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,’ said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXIV

  

  As the pandemic rages globally, and the fragility of the American political system goes on full display, I give you the first set of biodiversity cartoons for... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2021 ENVIRONMENT

• Rank Your Own Sample of Journals

  

  If you follow my blog regularly, you’ll know that around the middle of each year I publish a list of journals in conservation and ecology ranked according to a... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Influential Conservation Papers of 2020

  

  Following my late-December tradition, I present — in no particular order — a retrospective list of the ‘top’ 20 influential papers of 2020 as assessed by expert... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Plan B: COVID-19 Challenges for Field-based PhD Students

  

  Originally published on the GEL.blogBlistering heat, pouring rain, finding volunteers, submitting field-trip forms, forgetting equipment, data sheets blowing... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Need to Predict Population Trends, but Can’t Code? No Problem

  

  Yes, yes. I know. Another R Shiny app.However, this time I’ve strayed from my recent bibliometric musings and developed something that’s more compatible with th... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2020 ENVIRONMENT