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Category Archives: ARC-CEED
Exposing the creatures of the deep Dr Tim O’Hara, Mr Skipton Woolley , Associate Professor Brendan Wintle, Dr Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita and Dr José J. Lahoz-Monfort For the first time, a light has been shone on the diversity of creatures that … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Conservation, News, Qaecologists, spatial ecology
Tagged deep-sea, ecology, Environment, modelling, qaecology, research, The University of Melbourne
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Does More Data Mean Better Decisions?
We love more research and more data—but will they always mean better decisions? Interrogating this trade-off is at the heart of what much of Qaeco does. Over on the Methods Blog, recent PhD graduate Stefano Canessa discusses in detail The Value … Continue reading
Eureka for the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems!
Last night, David Keith and team won the 2015 NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, recognising their work on The Red List of Ecosystems. The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems establishes a standard method to … Continue reading
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Tagged Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, IUCN Red List
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RSPB award to Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita
Congratulations to Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita, who won the RSPB’s 2015 award for an outstanding PhD. Guru completed her PhD at Kent, and is now a post-doc in QAECO as part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions. Her PhD … Continue reading
Saving the most species at #uomOpenDay
How should you invest $20 million to save the most species from extinction? That was the challenge we put to visitors to The University of Melbourne Open Day. You can take the challenge too! It is a difficult problem; programs … Continue reading
Halting the spread of cane toads
By Reid Tingley & Darren Southwell Cane toads are one of the worst invasive species in Australia. Introduced to Queensland in 1935 as a biological control agent, the toads have spread at a formidable pace across northern Australia, and have had … Continue reading
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Tagged Biology, CEED, conservation, ecology, Environment, Frogs, invasive species, management, modelling, science
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Adaptive management of kangaroos in Wyperfeld National Park
By Chris Jones, José Lahoz-Monfort, and Cindy Hauser There are many members of QAECO who work on projects incorporating adaptive management. This post describes an example of one such project lead by Cindy and José along with Yung En Chee, Brendan … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Qaecologists
Tagged Adaptive management, Biodiversity, conservation, ecology, Environment, habitat, management, research, science, species
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