Posts from qaecologists- How climate change will impact the tree of life of Australian eucalypts September 20, 2016
- Predicting unexpected outcomes in invasive species control – poster at #Neobiota2016 September 14, 2016
- #neobiota2016 September 14, 2016
- Latest paper: Manipulating wetland hydroperiod to improve occupancy rates by an endangered amphibian August 29, 2016
- How do you use evidence in deciding how to protect birds? August 22, 2016
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Reading group: Index this September 29, 2016 qaecology
- Poll open! Vote for your #favRpackage September 22, 2016 qaecology
- Reading Group: Species-fragmented area relationship September 14, 2016 qaecology
- These are QAEco’s favourite R packages, what’s yours? #favRpackage September 7, 2016 qaecology
- PhD opportunity: threatened native mammals, invasive predators and fire at Glenelg Ark August 31, 2016 qaecology
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Reading group: Index this
In our latest QAECO reading group, Kate Giljohann selected an editorial published in the Journal of Applied Ecology titled “Management by proxy? The use of indices in applied ecology”. The article, led by Philip Stephens and editors of the journal, … Continue reading
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Poll open! Vote for your #favRpackage
Thanks for all the great nominations for #favRpackage! The poll is open – vote now for your favourite R package for ecology or conservation-related data analysis. Poll closes 10 October.
Reading Group: Species-fragmented area relationship
Species-area relationships (SARs) are perhaps the closest thing we have to a law of community ecology. Accordingly, they’ve received copious study over the last two decades, from theoretical development and formalisation, to parameterisation for natural systems and use in conservation … Continue reading
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These are QAEco’s favourite R packages, what’s yours? #favRpackage
Are you an ecologist? What stats program did you use to analyse your data ten years ago? How about now? A recent paper by Justin Touchon and colleagues reviewed changes in the statistics and statistical programs used by ecologists over … Continue reading
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PhD opportunity: threatened native mammals, invasive predators and fire at Glenelg Ark
QAEco is seeking an enthusiastic and highly qualified candidate for a PhD project, researching the influence of fire and invasive predator management on threatened native mammals at Glenelg Ark, south-western Victoria. Potential research topics include: Threatened native mammal responses to … Continue reading
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Reading group: Environmental DNA sampling — hope or hype?
In our latest QAEco reading group, Emily McColl-Gausden and Reid Tingley led a discussion on ‘Environmental DNA for wildlife biology and biodiversity monitoring’ by Kristine Bohmann, Alice Evans and colleagues. Bohmann et al. examined eDNA from a monitoring/ecology perspective, and … Continue reading
Reading group: towards unification
This is the second instalment of our fortnightly reading group blog series. This time, our group was led by Skip Woolley and we discussed the paper Towards a unification of unified theories of biodiversity by McGill 2010. This is an … Continue reading
