Posts from qaecologists- Discover the beauties (and oddities) of the avian world, rate some birds and help science September 28, 2020
- Get Productive with an Easy Weekly Reset September 28, 2020
- COVID counterfactuals September 27, 2020
- PhD position modelling species range dynamics September 22, 2020
- Why protected area networks are networks? September 6, 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: qaecology
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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Drawn to Science
We have several talented artists among us at Qaeco, not least of whom is Kate Cranney. Kate’s been using her flair for images and words in a series of pieces for Melbourne Uni student magazine Farrargo. Each piece tells us … Continue reading
So, you want a job that lets you save the world…
In this week’s QAECO reading group, we changed tack. Rather than a science-based paper, we discussed a recent paper from the Graduate Groups of Ecology and Geography at UC Davis (Blickley et al. in press). Their paper arose from a … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Group
Tagged conservation, employment, job, qaecology, reading group, skills
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Qaecologists at #ESA2012
Three members of QAECO are going to ESA2012 in Portland. In chronological order of their talks, we have: Mick McCarthy: “Indices of population viability” (Monday, 6 August, 2012: 2:50 PM, D136). Laura Pollock: “The role of speciation and introgression in … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Qaecologists
Tagged Biodiversity, Eucalypts, extinction, fire, Laura Pollock, Luke Kelly, Mick McCarthy, model, modelling, qaecology, research, science, The University of Melbourne
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Happy birthday!
Jane Catford pointed out to us that qaeco.com is one year old as of a couple of days ago. Ahh… don’t they grow up so fast! Massive thanks are owed to Will Morris, John Baumgartner and James Camac for all … Continue reading
Posted in ARC-CEED, Decision Point, Qaecologists
Tagged CEED, Hugh Possingham, NERP, qaecology
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Two jobs at Museum Victoria to work with QAECO
Two jobs have just been advertised to work on frogs with Dr Jane Melville at Museum Victoria and with QAECO principal researcher Dr Kirsten Parris. One job is a full-time position for two years as a Project Officer, and the … Continue reading
2012 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling
The 2012 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling is being held at The University of Queensland from 9-12 July. Keynote speakers are Professor Anne Chao (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan), EJ Millner-Gulland (Imperial College, London) and our very own Qaecologist … Continue reading
Qaecologists in the blogosphere
This week Qaecologists took to the blogosphere in droves. Senior Qaecologist Mick McCarthy has been blogging regularly on a wide range of topics from interpreting variation in data to alpine cattle grazing. Geoff Heard gave us a sneak preview of … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Blogosphere, Business, CEED, conservation, Corey Bradshaw, data, David Pannell, decline, ecology, Ecology lab, Environment, Environmental Decisions, environmental science, Geoff Heard, habitat, Ian Lunt, Impacts and Indicators, John Morgan, Manifesto, Megan Evans, Melbourne, Mick McCarthy, model, monitoring, Nature, news, QAECO, qaecology, research, science, species, The University of Melbourne, Will Morris
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The intermediate disturbance hypothesis and plant invasions: implications for species richness and management
A new paper in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics examines the relationship between the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) and alien plant invasions. IDH predicts a hump-shaped pattern between community diversity and disturbance, and is central to understanding patterns … Continue reading
