Wilkerson, M. L., M. G. E. Mitchell, D. Shanahan, K. A. Wilson, C. D. Ives, C. E. Lovelock, and J. R. Rhodes. 2018. The role of...

Most of us worry about climate change in one way or another, but not many of us explicitly consider its impact on ecosystem services....

If you go to the public parks around where you live, you will likely find that the structure of the vegetation differs substantially...

Check out Matthew Mitchell’s recent post on the Journal of Applied Ecology blog discussing our recent paper demonstrating that urban...

Can payments for ecosystem services fund climate change adaptation? Coastal wetlands, such as mangroves, can be lost due to sea level...

Recently we have been working on identifying recovery priorities for koala conservation in the face of climate change and other threats....

Check out our new Conversation article based on a recent paper of ours led by Chystal Mantyka-Pringle. In it we discuss some of the...

Determining which species to monitor is a critical question in conservation. Monitoring helps quantify changes in ecosystems and...

In the past few years there have been some very nice advances in methods for estimating relationships between landcover and connectivity...

Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...

What is “Biodiversity Synthesis”? This question was pondered and debated in a summer school I recently attended, hosted by the German...

A few months ago we published a paper (Runting et al 2015) in which we employ an integrated economic and environmental planning approach...

A few years ago we published a paper (Mantyka-Pringle et al. 2012) in which we used a meta-analysis to quantify empirically the effect of...

Species checklists provide basic information for taxonomic and geographic studies, and usually, are the first tool for those involved in...

Check out my chapter in Gordon Fox, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, and Vinicio Sosa’s new ecological statistics book:...

Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...

Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...

Last week I gave a presentation at the Australasian Network for Ecology and Transportation Conference in Coffs Harbour. I talked about...

One of the most challenging aspects of threatened species recovery planning is understanding the drivers of population declines over...

In highly human modified landscapes, roads can be a major driver of species decline. They fragment the landscapes, increase mortality...