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No more ecology
To all ecology people who read this blog (students, post-docs, academics), this is an intriguing, provocative and slightly worrying title. As ecology has matured into a full-fledged, hard-core,...
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Costs and benefits of a carbon economy for conservation
I’ve had the good fortune of being involved now in a several endeavours funded by the Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (ACEAS); two of those were workshops targeting specific...
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Arguing for scientific socialism in ecology funding
What makes an ecologist ‘successful’? How do you measure ‘success’? We’d all like to believe that success is measured by our results’ transformation of ecological theory and practice – in a...
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Conservation and Ecology Impact Factors 2011
Here we go – another year, another set of citations, and another journal ranking by ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Reports. Love them or loathe them, Impact Factors (IF) are immensely important...
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Biodiversity conservation and behaviour change
I have been asked by Diogo Veríssimo, a PhD student at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) based at the University of Kent, to post a call for papers for a special issue of...
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Malady of numbers
Organism abundance is the parameter most often requiring statistical treatment. Statistics turn our field/lab notes into estimates of population density after considering the individuals we can see and...
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The biggest go first
© James Cameron The saying “it isn’t rocket science” is a common cliché in English to state, rather sarcastically, that something isn’t that difficult (with the implication that the person complaining...
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Crying ‘wolf’ overlooks the foxes: challenging ‘planetary tipping points’
Today, a paper by my colleague, Barry Brook, appeared online in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. It’s bound to turn a few heads. Let’s not get distracted by the title of the post, or the potential for...
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Want to work with us?
© Beboy-Fotolia Today we announced a HEAP of positions in our Global Ecology Lab for hot-shot, up-and-coming ecologists. If you think you’ve got what it takes, I encourage you to apply. The positions...
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Conservation and ecology journal Impact Factors 2012
It’s the time of year that scientists love to hate – the latest (2012) journal ranking have been released by ISI Web of Knowledge. Many people despise this system, despite its major role in driving...
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Ecology: the most important science of our times
The title of this post is deliberately intended to be provocative, but stay with me – I do have an important point to make. I’m sure most every scientist in almost any discipline feels that her or his...
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Shrinking global range projected for the world’s largest fish
© W. Osborn (AIMS) My recently finished PhD student, Ana Sequeira, has not only just had a superb paper just accepted in Global Change Biology, she’s recently been offered (and accepted) a postdoctoral...
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Ecologists: join F1000Research’s open science ecosystem
The people at the new open-access journal F1000Research (a Faculty of 1000 publication) have asked me to help them announce their new deal for ecologists – no processing fees until 2014! Might have to...
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Don’t blame it on the dingo
Our postdoc, Tom Prowse, has just had one of the slickest set of reviews I’ve ever seen, followed by a quick acceptance of what I think is a pretty sexy paper. Earlier this year his paper in Journal of...
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Biogeography comes of age
This week has been all about biogeography for me. While I wouldn’t call myself a ‘biogeographer’, I certainly do apply a lot of the discipline’s techniques. This week I’m attending the 2013 Association...
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Hate journal impact factors? Try Google rankings instead
A lot of people hate journal impact factors (IF). The hatred arises for many reasons, some of which are logical. For example, Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge® keeps the process fairly opaque, so...
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More species = more resilience
While still ostensibly ‘on leave’ (side note: Does any scientist really ever take a proper holiday? Perhaps a subject for a future blog post), I cannot resist the temptation to blog about our lab’s...
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Upcoming conservation, ecology and modelling conferences
Our lab just put together a handy list of upcoming ecology, conservation and modelling conferences around the world in 2014. Others might also find it useful. Some of the abstract submission deadlines...
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Ecological processes depend on …
© Cagan Sekercioglu I have been known to say (ok – I say it all the time) that ecologists should never equivocate when speaking to the public. Whether it’s in a media release, blog post, television...
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Another 589 scientists speak out against Abbott’s war on the environment
I’m currently in Cairns at the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation‘s Annual Conference where scientists from all over the world have amassed for get the latest on tropical ecology and...
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