Offshore Energy & Marine Spatial Planning
I have the pleasure (and relief) of announcing a new book that’s nearly ready to buy, and I think many readers of CB.com might be interested in what it describes. I know it might be a bit premature to...
View ArticlePenguins cheated by ecosystem change
Thermal microhabitats are often uncoupled from above-ground air temperatures. A study focused on small frogs and lizards from the Philippines demonstrates that the structural complexity of tropical...
View ArticlePredicting sustainable shark harvests when stock assessments are lacking
I love it when a good collaboration bears fruit, and our latest paper is a good demonstration of that principle. It all started a few years ago with an ARC Linkage Project grant we received to examine...
View ArticleA life of fragmentation
What do you say to a man whose list of conservation awards reads like a Star Wars film intro, who has introduced terms like the ‘hyperdynamism hypothesis’ to the field of ecology, and whose...
View ArticleSome scary stats about agriculture and biodiversity
Last week we had the pleasure of welcoming the eminent sustainability scientist, Professor Andrew Balmford of the University of Cambridge, to our humble Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series here at...
View ArticleThe European Union just made bioenergy worse for biodiversity
Extending the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED) on solid and gaseous biomass is being used to roll back sustainability requirements. This is the wrong path.
View ArticleSex on the beach
Feminisation of a turtle population can be partitioned geographically when different reproductive colonies are exposed to contrasting temperatures
View ArticleSave a jaguar by eating less meat
A safe way to help jaguars is by reducing our meat — especially beef — consumption. After thinking of the relation between my diet, deforestation, ranchers and jaguars, I have become mostly vegetarian.
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 ArticleThe dingo is a true-blue, native Australian species
(reproduced from The Conversation) Of all Australia’s wildlife, one stands out as having an identity crisis: the dingo. But our recent article in the journal Zootaxa argues that dingoes should be...
View ArticleHow to improve (South Australia’s) biodiversity prospects
If you read CB.com regularly, you’ll know that late last year I blogged about the South Australia 2108 State of the Environment Report for which I was commissioned to write an ‘overview‘ of the State’s...
View ArticleAcademics and Indigenous groups unite to stand up for the natural world
More than 600 scientists from every country in the EU and 300 Brazilian Indigenous groups have come together for the first time. This is because we see a window of opportunity in the ongoing trade...
View Article“Overabundant” wildlife usually isn’t
Late last year (10 December) I was invited to front up to the ‘Overabundant and Pest Species Inquiry’ at the South Australian Parliament to give evidence regarding so-called ‘overabundant’ and ‘pest’...
View ArticleThe Great Dying
Here’s a presentation I gave earlier in the year for the Flinders University BRAVE Research and Innovation series: There is No Plan(et) B — What you can do about Earth’s extinction emergency Earth is...
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 ArticleGiving a monkey’s about primate conservation
Saving primates is a complicated business. Primates are intelligent, social animals that have complex needs. They come into conflict with humans when they raid rubbish bins and crops, chew power...
View ArticleOffshore Energy & Marine Spatial Planning
I have the pleasure (and relief) of announcing a new book that’s nearly ready to buy, and I think many readers of CB.com might be interested in what it describes. I know it might be a bit premature to...
View ArticlePenguins cheated by ecosystem change
Thermal microhabitats are often uncoupled from above-ground air temperatures. A study focused on small frogs and lizards from the Philippines demonstrates that the structural complexity of tropical...
View ArticlePredicting sustainable shark harvests when stock assessments are lacking
I love it when a good collaboration bears fruit, and our latest paper is a good demonstration of that principle. It all started a few years ago with an ARC Linkage Project grant we received to examine...
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