Posts from qaecologists- Three days of plant ecology in Germany June 13, 2017
- New paper: Can habitat management mitigate disease impacts on threatened amphibians? May 30, 2017
- Wet wetlands restore better May 29, 2017
- Sun Foundation Peer Prize for Women in Science May 29, 2017
- Kate Cranney’s Beautiful Art May 29, 2017
- Recent QAECO Posts
- Is there truly “no saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide”? May 16, 2017 qaecology
- Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets April 5, 2017 qaecology
- Wanting to learn Species Distribution Modelling? Consider enrolling in our online subject! March 22, 2017 qaecology
- Reading group: An Italian wolf in Switzerland March 22, 2017 qaecology
- Qaeco’s favourite papers of 2016 February 28, 2017 qaecology
Tag Archives: science
Life in corrupt science: when metrics become targets
‘Publish or perish’. The overused phrase describing career aspects in today’s academia. Whereas day-to-day work is rarely quite as grim, we all learn early on that our performance as scientists is very much measured by the number of publications, citations, … Continue reading
Posted in Reading Group
Tagged Australia, competition, metrics, misconduct, science, scientific rigour
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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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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
Posted in ARC-CEED
Tagged Biology, CEED, conservation, ecology, Environment, Frogs, invasive species, management, modelling, science
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Choose your cake and eat it too: A very QAECO morning tea
By Natasha Cadenhead How do academics forage at morning tea? Do sweets go extinct faster than savouries? Which cake should you eat? How much should you eat? How close should you be to the coffee? The exit? Yesterday we hosted … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Adaptive management, Biodiversity, conservation, ecology, Environment, habitat, management, research, science, species
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QAECO’s tips for running a successful workshop
Our group runs a lot of workshops in many forms: structured decision making processes; expert elicitation; targeted analyses with many participants; brainstorming of broad issues; and everything in between. Collectively we’ve learnt a few dos and don’ts. In a previous post … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, ecology, Environment, guides, howto, science, tips, workshops
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