A New Method for Quantifying Uncertainty for Landscape Genetics Studies
In the past few years there have been some very nice advances in methods for estimating relationships between landcover and connectivity...
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- Oct 29, 2015
The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 1
Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...
- Oct 9, 2015
Understanding Biodiversity Synthesis: Insights from my visit to the iDiv centre in Germany
What is “Biodiversity Synthesis”? This question was pondered and debated in a summer school I recently attended, hosted by the German...
- Aug 15, 2015
Alternative Futures and Targets for Borneo
A few months ago we published a paper (Runting et al 2015) in which we employ an integrated economic and environmental planning approach...
- Jul 14, 2015
Climate and Land cover Change Interact to Affect Conservation Priorities
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...
- May 22, 2015
How well do we know our biodiversity? A case study of wild mammals from Colombia
Species checklists provide basic information for taxonomic and geographic studies, and usually, are the first tool for those involved in...
- Mar 5, 2015
Dealing with overdispersion in ecological data
Check out my chapter in Gordon Fox, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, and Vinicio Sosa’s new ecological statistics book:...
- Oct 31, 2014
The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 3
Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...
- Oct 30, 2014
The Rhodes Lab Visits Alice Springs for ESA2014 – Part 2
Last month, the Ecological Society of Australia held its annual ecology conference in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. A few of us were...
- Aug 2, 2014
Conservation Gains, Trains and Automobiles
Last week I gave a presentation at the Australasian Network for Ecology and Transportation Conference in Coffs Harbour. I talked about...
- Jul 10, 2014
Understanding Koala Declines Using Citizen Science Data
One of the most challenging aspects of threatened species recovery planning is understanding the drivers of population declines over...
- May 17, 2014
New Methods and Rules of Thumb to Mitigate Road Impacts on Wildlife
In highly human modified landscapes, roads can be a major driver of species decline. They fragment the landscapes, increase mortality...
- May 7, 2014
New Data Set Mapping Gene Flow Across South East Queensland, Australia
We have just published a new data set that maps koala resistances for gene flow for the first time across South East Queensland,...
- Feb 26, 2014
The Impacts of Climate and Land-use Change on Freshwater Biodiversity
Most ecosystems are undergoing threats from multiple sources. Understanding how these threats combine to drive ecosystem and biodiversity...
- Jan 29, 2014
Matching Scales of Management and Processes in Landscape Genetics
In spatial and landscape ecology, scale issues regularly confound the analysis and interpretation of data. One particularly important...
- Oct 26, 2013
When Should we Care about Social Networks in Setting Conservation Priorities?
Last week I gave a talk at Silwood Park, Imperial College on some work I have been doing with Iadine Chades, Orjan Bodinand Angela...
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