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Job: Research Fellow in Palaeo-Ecological Modelling
I have another postdoctoral fellowship to advertise! All the details you need for applying are below. — KEY PURPOSE Scientific data such as fossil and archaeological records used as proxy to...
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Noses baffled by ocean acidification
Smell is like noise, the more scents we breathe in one sniff, the more difficult it is to distinguish them to the point of olfactory saturation. Experimental work with clownfish reveals that the...
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Four decades of fragmentation
I’ve recently read perhaps the most comprehensive treatise of forest fragmentation research ever compiled, and I personally view this rather readable and succinct review by Bill Laurance and colleagues...
View ArticleGreater death rates for invasive rabbits from interacting diseases
When it comes to death rates for invasive European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Australia, it appears that 1 + 1 = 2.1. “Canberra, we have a problem” — Sure, it’s an old problem and much less of...
View ArticleLegacy of human migration on the diversity of languages in the Americas
This might seem a little left-of-centre for CB.com subject matter, but hang in there, this does have some pretty important conservation implications. In our quest to be as transdisciplinary as...
View ArticleSex on the beach
Feminisation of a turtle population can be partitioned geographically when different reproductive colonies are exposed to contrasting temperatures
View ArticleInfluential conservation ecology papers of 2018
For the last five years I’ve published a retrospective list of the ‘top’ 20 influential papers of the year as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime — so, I’m doing so again for 2018 (interesting side...
View ArticleFirst Australians arrived in large groups using complex technologies
One of the most ancient peopling events of the great diaspora of anatomically modern humans out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago — human arrival in the great continent of Sahul (New Guinea,...
View ArticleEnvironmental damage kills children
Yes, it’s a provocative title, I agree. But then again, it’s true. But I don’t just mean in the most obvious ways. We already have good data showing that lack of access to clean water and sanitation...
View ArticleVictoria, please don’t aerial-bait dingoes
Here’s a submission to Victoria’s proposed renewal of special permission from the Commonwealth to poison dingoes: 08 October 2019 Honourable Lily D’Ambrosio MP Minister for Energy, Environment and...
View ArticleWestern Australia’s moronic shark cull
A major media release today coordinated by Jessica Meeuwig in Western Australia makes the (obvious) point that there’s no biological justification to cull sharks. — 301 Australian and International...
View ArticleHuman population size: speeding cars can’t stop quickly
Here at ConservationBytes.com, I write about pretty much anything that has anything remotely to do with biodiversity’s prospects. Whether it is something to do with ancient processes, community...
View ArticleAvoiding genetic rescue not justified on genetic grounds
I had the pleasure today of reading a new paper by one of the greatest living conservation geneticists, Dick Frankham. As some of CB readers might remember, I’ve also published some papers with Dick...
View ArticleSensitive numbers
You couldn’t really do ecology if you didn’t know how to construct even the most basic mathematical model — even a simple regression is a model (the non-random relationship of some variable to...
View ArticleInexorable rise of human population pressures in Africa
I’ve been a bit mad preparing for an upcoming conference, so I haven’t had a lot of time lately to blog about interesting developments in the conservation world. However, it struck me today that my...
View ArticleMulticulturalism in the lab
With all the nasty nationalism and xenophobia gurgling nauseatingly to the surface of our political discourse1 these days, it is probably worth some reflection regarding the role of multiculturalism in...
View ArticleLimited nursery replenishment in coral reefs
Coral reef fishes are wonderfully diverse in size, form, and function, as well as their need for different habitats throughout the life cycle. Some species spend all of their life in the same kind of...
View ArticleInfluential conservation ecology papers of 2019
As I’ve done for the last six years, I am publishing a retrospective list of the ‘top’ 20 influential papers of 2109 as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime (in no particular order). See previous years’...
View ArticleNeed 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 the core of my main research and...
View ArticleConservation paradox – the pros and cons of recreational hunting
Is recreational hunting bad for biodiversity? Not always.
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