Clik here to view.
Twenty landmark papers in biodiversity conservation
While I can’t claim that this is the first time one of my peer-reviewed papers has been inspired by ConservationBytes.com, I can claim that this is the first time a peer-reviewed paper is derived from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XIV
The last post of 2011, I thought I’d focus on the lighter side (that is to say, my brain is muddled by the lovely break from academia, so I don’t really feel like investing too much cerebral energy)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XV
I’m in the field at the moment, so here are the latest six cartoons to pass the time (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). Enjoy. – Filed under:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Humans suddenly become intelligent
Some described it as the “eco-topia”; some believed they had died in the night and awoken in a different universe. Some just stood there gaping stupidly. Yet the events of 01 April 2012 are real*....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The invisible hand of ecosystem services
© Manu Cornet http://www.bonkersworld.net I’ve just spent nearly an entire week trying to get my head around ecosystem services (ES). You’d think that would have been a given based on my experience, my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XVI
While in transit between tropical and temperate Australia, here’s the latest batch of 6 biodiversity cartoons (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). – Filed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Having more tree species makes us wealthier
As more and more empirical evidence pours in from all corners of the globe, we can only draw one conclusion about the crude measure of species richness (i.e., number of species) – having more species...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Conservation hypocrisy
telegraph.co.uk Another soul-searching post from Alejandro Frid. – Confession time. This is going to be delicate, and might even ruffle some big feathers. Still, all of us need to talk about it. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ecology: the most important science of our times
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 his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Biowealth: all creatures great and small
“So consider the crocodiles, sharks and snakes, the small and the squirmy, the smelly, slimy and scaly. Consider the fanged and the hairy, the ugly and the cute alike. The more we degrade this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Influential conservation papers of 2013
This is a little bit of a bandwagon – the ‘retrospective’ post at the end of the year – but this one is not merely a rehash I’ve stuff I’ve already covered. I decided that it would be worthwhile to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If biodiversity is so important, why is Europe not languishing?
I don’t often respond to many comments on this blog unless they are really, really good questions (and if I think I have the answers). Even rarer is devoting an entire post to answering a question. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eye on the taiga
Dun! Dun, dun, dun! Dun, dun dun! Dun, dun, daaaaah! I’ve waited nearly two years to do that, with possibly our best title yet for a peer-reviewed paper: Eye on the taiga: removing global policy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Farewell to an environmental hero: Tony McMichael
I had some sad news today – a visionary in human health and environmental integrity, Professor Tony McMichael, passed away last night from advanced influenza complications. Many people in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Influential conservation papers of 2014
Another year, another arbitrary retrospective list – but I’m still going to do it. Based on the popularity of last year’s retrospective list of influential conservation papers as assessed through F1000...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How things have (not) changed
The other night I had the pleasure of dining with the former Australian Democrats leader and senator, Dr John Coulter, at the home of Dr Paul Willis (Director of the Royal Institution of Australia). It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Influential conservation papers of 2015
As I did last year and the year before, here’s another arbitrary, retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2015 as assessed via F1000 Prime. — Changing habitat areas and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Biowealth
While I’ve blogged about this before in general terms (here and here), I thought it wise to reproduce the (open-access) chapter of the same name published in late 2013 in the unfortunately rather...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXXV
Another six biodiversity cartoons for you this week (see here for why I provide six each time). See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. — Filed under:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One-two carbon punch of defaunation
I’ve just read a well-planned and lateral-thinking paper in Nature Communications that I think readers of CB.com ought to appreciate. The study is a simulation of a complex ecosystem service that would...
View Article
