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• Influential conservation ecology papers of 2016
  on Dec 15, 2016 in conservation Anthropocene bees biodiversity carbon carbon storage China climate change climatic debt community ecology competition coral reefs decline defauntation deforestation ecosystem services ecosystems extinction Fertiliser forests microbes microbial diversity mutualism neonicotinoids nutrient loading nutrients plant diversity pollination Soil species loss Species richness sustainability time series
  As I have done for the last three years (2015, 2014, 2013), here’s another retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2016 as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime. Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity — ...
• ConservationBytes.com Leaving the University of Adelaide
  on Dec 11, 2016 in conservation Flinders University
  In reality, ConservationBytes.com isn’t going anywhere. But Corey Bradshaw is. You’ll still be able to read the regular posts on ConservationBytes.com without having to change a thing; I’ll just be writing them from a different offi...
• Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations
  on Dec 10, 2016 in Allee effect biodiversity conservation conservation biology DNA extinction extinction debt fragmentation genetic diversity genetics threatened species conservation genetics evolutionary potential genetic erosion inbreeding depression textbook
  That is the title of a new textbook that will be available mid-2017. After almost 6 years work, authors Dick Frankham, Jonathan Ballou, Katherine Ralls, Mark Eldridge, Michele Dudash, Charles Fenster, Bob Lacy & Paul Sunnucks have produced an...
• Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XL
  on Dec 6, 2016 in cartoon conservation environmental policy science Anthropocene biodiversity climate change deforestation denialism Endangered species extinction Global warming Holocene
  That’s ’40’, of course. Six more biodiversity cartoons, and the last for 2016. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. — Filed under: cartoon, conservation, environmental policy, sc...
• Inexorable rise of human population pressures in Africa
  on Aug 31, 2016 in Africa agriculture anthropocene biodiversity carbon China climate change conference conservation conservation biology deforestation demography development economics exploitation extinction fire fragmentation habitat loss harvest poaching population dynamics poverty roads synergies consumption human population mammals overpopulation southern Africa wildlife
  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 preparations provide ideal material for...
• Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXVIII
  on Aug 25, 2016 in cartoon conservation ecosystem function ecosystem services environmental policy science biodiversity climate change Coal extinction Global warming politics Population science denial trophy hunting
  Another six biodiversity cartoons for your midday chuckle & groan. There’s even one in there that takes the mickey out of some of my own research (see if you can figure out which one). See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodive...
• Rich and stable communities most vulnerable to change
  on Aug 16, 2016 in biodiversity bottom-up ecology climate change conservation ecology ecosystem function evolution exploitation extinction function invasive species co-extinctions community ecology ecological network Extinctions host parasite resilience stability
  I’ve just read an interesting new study that was sent to me by the lead author, Giovanni Strona. Published the other day in Nature Communications, Strona & Lafferty’s article entitled Environmental change makes robust ecological ne...
• Keeping India’s forests
  on Aug 8, 2016 in agriculture Asia biodiversity conservation corruption decline deforestation development economics ecosystem environmental policy fragmentation governance habitat loss harvest logging rain forests afforestation forests grasslands hotspots human population India restoration
  I’ve just returned from a short trip to the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, Karnataka, one of India’s elite biological research institutes. I was invited to give a series of seminars (you can see the titles he...
• Journal ranks 2015
  on Jul 25, 2016 in conservation science writing scientific publishing bibliometrics citations h-index impact factor peer-reviewed journals ranking
  Back in February I wrote about our new bibliometric paper describing a new way to rank journals, which I still contend is a fairer representation of relative citation-based rankings. Given that the technique requires ISI, Google Scholar and Scopus d...
• More things stay the same, more we retrogress
  on Jul 20, 2016 in Australia biodiversity biowealth carbon climate change climate shift conservation corruption deforestation ecology environmental policy environmental science extinction fragmentation governance mammal management poverty protected area research science threatened species water energy Environment Minister Greg Hunt Josh Frydenberg mitigation politics
  Within six months of Abbott and the Coalition seizing power in the 2013 Australian election, decades—if not centuries—of environmental damage and retrograde policies unfolded. But this was no run-of-the-mill incompetence and neglect by government...

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