Posts from qaecologists- Predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on community diversity January 22, 2021
- Linking species distribution models with structured expert elicitation for prediction of management effects November 11, 2020
- New paper: Connectivity over a disease risk gradient enables recovery of rainforest frogs November 3, 2020
- Projecting future deaths from COVID-19 cases October 30, 2020
- COVID-19 dynamics October 20, 2020
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Virtual #ISEC2020 June 22, 2020 Michael McCarthy
- QAECO’s favourite papers of 2018 April 12, 2019 qaecology
- What is HPC and why would I use it? April 4, 2019 qaecology
- Kickstarting the year with HGAMs February 25, 2019 qaecology
- Philosophical discussions in the lab: Žižek criticises ideological ecology June 5, 2018 qaecology
Category Archives: Decision Point
More than the humble yabbie: conserving Australia’s freshwater crayfish
Australia has nearly a quarter of the world’s 600 freshwater crayfish species, but we lag far behind in conserving them (and other invertebrates). Over at Decision Point, Qaecologist Lucie Bland shines a bright light on these fascinating yet neglected species, and discusses … Continue reading
Posted in Decision Point, Qaecologists
Tagged Biodiversity, climate change, conservation, Decision Point
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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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Strategic approaches to planning for conservation and development: Putting a stop to cumulative impacts on threatened species
By Brendan Wintle (This article was first published in the April 2014 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) NERP Environmental Decisions (NERP ED) is working closely with the Strategic Approaches Branch (Department of the Environment) to apply state-of-the-art decision … Continue reading
Now you see me, now you don’t: The impact of imperfect detection on species distribution models
By Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita and José Lahoz-Monfort (This article was first published in the March 2014 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) All ecologists know that wildlife surveys are almost never perfect. Individuals are often missed and even whole … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Decision Point
Tagged Biology, detection, ecology, species distribution modelling, Statistics
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A decision framework driven by the decision makers: Structured Decision Making in environmental management
By Kelly Hunt de Bie and Libby Rumpff (This article was first published in the October 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) Managers of the environment are routinely faced with making complex decisions with little information and high … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Decision Point, Qaecologists
Tagged Decision making, Environment, Problem Solving
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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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Bridging the great divide: road crossings and their value for wildlife
By Kylie Soanes (This article was first published in the April 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) People need roads – whether it’s to travel across the country or nick down to the local shops. Unfortunately, roads … Continue reading
Principles of population viability analysis (PVA): a checklist of the basics
By Brendan Wintle (This article was first published in the April 2013 issue of Decision Point, The Monthly Magazine of the Environmental Decisions Group) Population viability analysis (PVA) is a model-based protocol for characterising and predicting future fluctuations in a species’ abundance. PVA is … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Decision Point
Tagged Population dynamics, Population viability analysis, Vital rates
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