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Biogeography comes of age 22 Aug 2013 | 05:14 pm
This week has been all about biogeography for me. While I wouldn’t call myself a ‘biogeographer’, I certainly do apply a lot of the discipline’s techniques. This week I’m attending the 2013 Associati...
Don’t blame it on the dingo 21 Aug 2013 | 04:31 pm
Our postdoc, Tom Prowse, has just had one of the slickest set of reviews I’ve ever seen, followed by a quick acceptance of what I think is a pretty sexy paper. Earlier this year his paper in Journal o...
Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XX 20 Aug 2013 | 12:22 pm
I can’t believe I’ve now done twenty of these – another 6 biodiversity cartoons while I’m travelling (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). – Filed under: ...
Ecologists: join F1000Research’s open science ecosystem 8 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
The people at the new open-access journal F1000Research (a Faculty of 1000 publication) have asked me to help them announce their new deal for ecologists – no processing fees until 2014! Might have to...
Shrinking global range projected for the world’s largest fish 7 Aug 2013 | 01:16 pm
© W. Osborn (AIMS) My recently finished PhD student, Ana Sequeira, has not only just had a superb paper just accepted in Global Change Biology, she’s recently been offered (and accepted) a postdoctor...
Fast-lane mesopredators 29 Jul 2013 | 03:02 am
© F. Fish http://goo.gl/rWG8fI Another post from Alejandro Frid (a modified excerpt from a chapter of his forthcoming book). – I fall in love easy. Must be my Latino upbringing. Whatever it is, I h...
Saving world’s most threatened cat requires climate adaptation 23 Jul 2013 | 12:21 am
© CSIC Andalusia Audiovisual Bank/H. Garrido The Iberian lynx is the world’s most threatened cat, with recent counts estimating only 250 individuals surviving in the wild. Recent declines of Iberian ...
Guilty until proven innocent 18 Jul 2013 | 12:21 pm
The precautionary principle – the idea that one should adopt an approach that minimises risk – is so ingrained in the mind of the conservation scientist that we often forget what it really means, or t...
Ecology: the most important science of our times 12 Jul 2013 | 07:11 am
The title of this post is deliberately intended to be provocative, but stay with me – I do have an important point to make. I’m sure most every scientist in almost any discipline feels that her or hi...
The economy worse off since 1978 3 Jul 2013 | 04:43 pm
Can’t eat money I was only a little tacker in 1978, and as any little tacker, I was blissfully unaware that I had just lived through a world-changing event. Just like that blissfully ignorant child, ...
