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It's make or break time for Australia's national parks

qaecology wrote 1 day ago: This post was originally published on The Conversation and is authored by Euan Ritchie, William Laur … more →

Tags: conservation, alpine grazing, Alpine National Park, Australia, Conservation, Environment, Hugh Possingham, legislation, mick mccarthy

Recent Qaecologist blog posts (April 2013)1 comment

qaecology wrote 3 weeks ago: April marked the end of visiting PhD student Lucie Bland’s recent stint with the QAECO lab. Since th … more →

Tags: Post-Docs, ARC-CEED, Facilitation, Machine learning, bayes nets, woodland birds, wildlife, Code, Gender Bias

QAECOlogists and facilitation: happy groups, great science, better decisions2 comments

qaecology wrote 1 month ago: At QAECO, we believe good science should inform good management decisions.  To achieve this it is es … more →

Tags: Events, Management, QAECO, Facilitation, decision, Workshop, Collaboration, Facilitator, Experts

Recent Qaecologist blog posts (March 2013, Weeks 3 & 4)

qaecology wrote 1 month ago: Another fortnight, another great series of blog posts from members of the QAECO lab. Visiting qaecol … more →

Tags: Post-Docs, ARC-CEED, New Zealand, Doctor of Philosophy, postdoctoral research, Whio, Sulawesi

Recent Qaecologist blog posts (March 2013, Weeks 1 & 2)1 comment

qaecology wrote 2 months ago: The first two weeks of March continued the trend of quality blogging by qaecologists. As always, Amy … more →

Tags: Post-Docs, ARC-CEED, Conservation, Biodiversity, Management, Conservation Biology

Recent Qaecologist blog posts (Feb 2013, Weeks 3 & 4)2 comments

qaecology wrote 2 months ago: It’s been another great couple of weeks of blogging from QAECO lab members. Here are the highl … more →

Tags: Post-Docs, New Zealand, Melbourne, growling grass frog, Doctor of Philosophy, kakapo, postdoctoral research, thesis

Recent Qaecologist blog posts (Feb 2013, Weeks 1 & 2)2 comments

qaecology wrote 3 months ago: Blogging is now a big part of the QAECO lab. New blog posts by members of the lab are coming out alm … more →

Tags: Australia, New Zealand, Conservation Biology, Ross Island, Antarctica, Wildlife Photography, PADDD, Salix, Big Desert

Qaecologists at SCCS-Brisbane 20133 comments

qaecology wrote 3 months ago: A contingent of Qaecologists have just returned from a fortnight in sunny Brisbane, attending the fi … more →

Tags: Conference, conservation, Events, Brisbane, Conservation, lamington national park, lone pine koala sanctuary, sccs-aus, university of queensland

The best ecology and conservation papers of 20124 comments

qaecology wrote 5 months ago: We asked everyone at QAECO to name their favourite ecology and conservation science paper of 2012. H … more →

Tags: conservation, reading group, Biodiversity, Biology, Ecology, Environment, extinction

QAECOlogist Talks at #ESAus20122 comments

qaecology wrote 5 months ago: We’re looking forward to ecologists descending on Melbourne for the 2012 meeting of the Ecological S … more →

Tags: Conference, Events, Ecology, metapopulation, climate change, Science, Diversity, dispersal, models

Marine biodiversity: global patterns, problems and solutions

qaecology wrote 8 months ago: This week at QAECO we’ve been talking about global patterns of marine biodiversity. Our discussion t … more →

Tags: reading group, conservation, Biodiversity, marine protected area

Trait-based approaches to ecology and conservation1 comment

qaecology wrote 8 months ago: This week at QAECO we’ve been talking about plant and animal traits. We kick-started our discussion … more →

Tags: reading group, conservation, papers, Ecology, Traits

QAECO talks at World Congress of Herpetology 2012

qaecology wrote 9 months ago: If you’re attending the World Congress of Herpetology in Vancouver, Canada this week, be sure … more →

Tags: Conference, herpetology, Vancouver, World Congress of Herpetology

Qaecologists at #ESA20121 comment

qaecology wrote 9 months ago: Three members of QAECO are going to ESA2012 in Portland. In chronological order of their talks, we h … more →

Tags: Conference, Biodiversity, Eucalypts, extinction, Fire, Laura Pollock, Luke Kelly, mick mccarthy, model

Happy birthday!

qaecology wrote 10 months ago: Jane Catford pointed out to us that qaeco.com is one year old as of a couple of days ago. Ahh… … more →

Tags: Decision Point, ARC-CEED, qaecology, CEED, nerp, Hugh Possingham

How to link functional traits to species distribution models1 comment

qaecology wrote 10 months ago: Qaecologists sometimes occur in trees. And occasionally they find it difficult to get out. Species d … more →

Tags: statistics, papers, Species, Environment, Ecography, species distribution, Physiology, environment variable

QAECO at AMSA-NZMSS 2012: Marine Extremes—And Everything In Between

qaecology wrote 11 months ago: Invasive seastars, Asterias amurnesis in Victoria For the first time since 2007, the Australian Mari … more →

Tags: Conference, Australia, Conference #2, New Zealand, marine protected area, Hobart, New Zealand Marine Science Society, Australian Marine Science Association

Who let the growlers decline?

qaecology wrote 11 months ago: Today’s Age reports on the decline of Melbourne’s endangered Growling Grass Frog. The article … more →

Tags: News, conservation, metapopulation, Melbourne, growling grass frog, The Age, litoria raniformis

Birds have distinctive urban accents

qaecology wrote 11 months ago: Urban silvereyes have distinctive accents. Photo by Dominique Potvin. A recent report in The Age has … more →

Tags: News, ARC-CEED, Ecology, Research, Birds, Kirsten Parris, Dominique Potvin, Urban, acoustics


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