Posts from qaecologists- How climate change will impact the tree of life of Australian eucalypts September 20, 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
- How do birds respond to wildfire and prescribed burning in Victoria’s foothills forests? August 10, 2016
- Recent QAECO Posts
- 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
- Reading group: Environmental DNA sampling — hope or hype? August 24, 2016 qaecology
Category Archives: Conservation
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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Moving beyond the Science of Doom at the Inaugural School of BioSciences Seminar
contributed by Lucie Bland The School of BioSciences held their inaugural seminar on the 10th of December 2015 in the Sidney Myer Centre at the University of Melbourne. The seminar aimed to showcase upcoming views and ideas in conservation, as … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Events
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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
Socially-acceptable conservation planning: how can we integrate biological and social values to improve conservation?
By Rachael Vorwerk, Amy Whitehead and Heini Kujala (This article was first published in the July 2014 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) Understanding how society perceives and values different areas is important for … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Decision Point, post-docs
Tagged Biodiversity, conservation, research, science, social values, spatial prioritisation, Zonation
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Gauging the extent of ecosystem novelty: measuring levels of biological invasion
By Jane Catford (This article was first published in the July 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) It is all very well having an academic definition of novel ecosystems, but how do we identify them in … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Decision Point
Tagged Corangamite, ecology, invasive species, River Murray, wetlands
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Where are the goal posts now? Setting environmental objectives in novel ecosystems 
By Jane Catford (This article was first published in the July 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) In a rapidly changing world full of strange new assemblages of species, the goal posts for conservation aren’t as … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Decision Point
Tagged Biodiversity, Biology, Ecosystem, Environment, invasive species, novel ecosystems
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Evidence and the conservation manager: what evidence does a manager need?
By Carly Cook (This article was first published in the June 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) It’s often said that there’s a gap between conservation science and conservation management, that the work of conservation researchers … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Decision Point
Tagged Biodiversity, conservation, ecology, Environment, Parks Victoria
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