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
Tag Archives: climate change
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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A carbon code of conduct is not enough
By Hannah Pearson, Chris Baker, Natalie Briscoe, Laura Pollock and Luke Kelly. Despite our best efforts, scientists haven’t succeeded in persuading the world’s governments that reducing carbon emissions is vital for maintaining a liveable climate on earth. This might be because … Continue reading
Species on the move: things to consider when translocating species
The last QAECO reading group tackled a topic of great interest to all the people in the group, be they Q, A, or ECO. We discussed a new paper in Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences where Mark … Continue reading
Role of protected areas in species’ range expansions
In this week’s QAECO Reading Group we talked about whether and how protected areas (PAs) may facilitate species’ range expansions – a topic that is becoming increasingly important as the global climate changes. In their recent PNAS paper, Thomas et … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Reading Group
Tagged Biodiversity, Biological Records Centre, birds, butterflies, climate change, Conservation Biology, Conservation Planning, Dispersal, Endangered species, Environment, Invertebrates, Landscapes, Protected area, Protected Areas, reading group, Reserve Design, science, Species Distributions
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Upcoming symposium on climate change in Victoria
Next month, The Royal Society of Victoria and Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute will hold a two-day symposium on the nature and effects of climate change in Victoria, and our capacity to reduce exposure and vulnerability to its impacts. The symposium, … Continue reading
Posted in Events, News
Tagged adaptation, climate change, impacts, MSSI, symposium, victoria
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Qaecologists at SCB
This week a bunch of qaecologists will be presenting their work at the Society for Conservation Biology meeting in Auckland, New Zealand. If you’re in town be sure to check them out.
Posted in Conference, News
Tagged Asterias amurensis, Auckland, climate change, conference, conservation, ecology, Ecology lab, environmental science, Jane Catford, meeting, Mick McCarthy, Nature, New Zealand, qaecology, research, SCB, science, Society for conservation biology, The University of Melbourne
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Qaecologists in the Media
Brendan is the lead author on a paper published in Nature Climate Change this week looking at how to optimise investment in conservation under climate change. Brendan discusses the findings in The Conversation and you can see him in the flesh on the ABC … Continue reading
Some great new blog posts
We have some interesting blog entries coming out of the lab at the moment. Dr. Michael McCarthy has recently written a piece on the SLOSS (Single Large or Several Small) reserves debate. Dr. Georgia Garrard has written a nice piece … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Blog, climate change, data, fire, ITEX, OPENBUGS, SLOSS, The University of Melbourne
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