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Slicing the second ‘lung of the planet’
© WWF Apologies for the slow-down in postings this past week – as many of you know, I was attending the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Auckland. I’ll blog about the conference later...
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Sink to source – the loss of biodiversity’s greatest ecosystem service
I’ve mentioned this idea before, but it’s nice when some real data support a prediction (no matter how gloomy that prediction might have been). It’s what drives scientists toward discovery (or at...
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A convenient truth: global push for carbon-based conservation
I’ve just written an article for the Australian River Restoration Centre‘s RipRap magazine, and they have given me permission to reproduce it here. – The brave, new green world of the carbon economy...
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Seeing the wood for the trees
From the towering kapoks of South America to the sprawling banyans of South Asia, from misty cloud forests to ice-covered pines, forests are some of the most diverse and important ecosystems on Earth....
View ArticleCartoon guide to biodiversity loss LVIII
The first set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2020. This special, Australia-is-burning-down-themed set is dedicated to Scott Morrison and his ilk. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to...
View ArticleThe only constant is change
I just wrote a piece for the Flinders University alumnus magazine — Encounter — and I thought I’d share it here. As an ecologist concerned with how life changes and adapts to the vagaries of climate...
View ArticleWorried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists...
Daniel Mariuz/AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles, and Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University Anyone with even a passing interest in the...
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Wildfires transform forests into mosaics of vegetation. What, where, and which plants thrive depends on when and how severely a fire affects different areas of a forest. Such heterogeneity in the...
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