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• Many Animals Won’t Cope with Climate Change Without Access to Ample Drinking...

  

  Climate change implies change in temperature and water, and both factors shape species’ tolerances to thermal stress. In our latest article, we show that lack o... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Double Standards: Climate Change Vs. COVID-19

  

  Both anthropogenic climate change and the coronavirus pandemic entail serious health risks. Why then do climatologists lack the public credibility and... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• The Only Constant is Change

  

  I just wrote a piece for the Flinders University alumnus magazine — Encounter — and I thought I’d share it here.As an ecologist concerned with how life... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• History of Species Distribution Models

  

  This little historical overview by recently completed undergraduate student, Sofie Costin (soon to join our lab!), nicely summarises the history, strengths,... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• I’m Nearing the End of My PhD/postdoc … What the Hell Am I Supposed to Do Now?

  

  Originally published on the GE.blog. What do you want to be when you grow up? Unicorns, like job security, used to exist (actually, it’s an Elasmotherium)The... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Journal Ranks 2019

  

  For the last 12 years and running now, I’ve been generating journal ranks based on the journal-ranking method we published several years ago. Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• A Brief History of Environmentalism in Australia Since European Invasion

  

  A (heavily) modified and updated excerpt from our 2015 book Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie—The Australian awakening to its environmental dilemmas... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Queer Science

  

  (Originally posted by Kathryn Venning on the GEL.blog)Happy Pride Month to the beautiful Queers of the scientific community, and beyond! Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Successful Movers Responding to Climate Change

  

  Ecologists often rely on measuring certain elements of a species’ characteristics, behaviour, or morphology to determine if these — what we call ‘traits’ —... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Extinction Cascades

  

  A recent online interview I did on the role of extinction cascades in mass extinctions: Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LXI

  

  The fourth set of biodiversity cartoons for 2020. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Extinction Anxiety

  

  Earlier this week, the SBS show The Feed did a short segment called ‘Extinction Anxiety’ where I talked with host Alice Matthews about biodiversity extinctions. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste

  

  First published in the Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere Blog on 5 May 2020.by Professor Dan Blumstein (University of California at Los... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Shifting from Prevention to Damage Control

  

  Back in March this year before much of the world morphed into the weirdness that now dictates all facets of life, I wrote an update for the Is This How You... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• A Fairer Way to Rank a Researcher’s Relative Citation Performance?

  

  I do a lot of grant assessments for various funding agencies, including two years on the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund Panel (Ecology, Evolution,... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• South Australia is Still Killing Dingoes

  

  As we did for Victoria, here’s our submission to South Australia’s proposed changes to its ‘wild dog’ and dingo policy (organised again by the relentless and... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Cartoon Guide to Biodiversity Loss LX

  

  The third set of biodiversity cartoons for 2020 (plus a video treat). See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Amphibian Conservation in a Managed World

  

  Crinia parinsignifera (top) and Limnodynastes tasmaniensis (bottom). Photo: Kate MasonThe amphibian class is diverse, and ranges from worm-like caecilians to... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• A Plant’s Adaptive Traits Don’t Follow Climate Conditions as You Might Expect

  

  Just a quick post today, my last one for March. Like probably most of you, I’ve been trying to pretend to be as normal as possible despite the COVID-19... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2020 ENVIRONMENT

• Projecting Global Deaths from Covid19

  

  I know that it’s not the best way to project expected deaths from a pandemic disease, but being something of a demographer, I just couldn’t help myself. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2020 ENVIRONMENT